This free joint event will give community growers, community retailers (including food co-ops, fruit and vegetable stalls and barras) and Food and Health Alliance members an opportunity to find out …
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Growing Together – SRUC Oatridge Campus, West Lothian
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Area of Work: Networking and learning development
New funding opportunities from CFHS
CFHS is providing support for a new, nationally accredited cooking skills course by offering funding of up to £750 to groups and agencies towards the costs of delivering this new …
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Area of Work: Funding
Development funding for work on maternal and infant nutrition across minority ethnic communities in Scotland
CFHS has a small amount of development funding available to support the development of good practice examples of work on maternal and infant nutrition across minority ethnic communities in Scotland. …
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Areas of Work: Families with children, Funding, Minority ethnic communities
Forthcoming event
CFHS, the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens, and the Food and Health Alliance are holding a joint event on 20 November, at Oatridge College, West Lothian, from 9.30 …
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Approaches to improving food access/addressing food poverty with older people
Study tour to London, 1-3 October 2013 ‘The main thought that stayed with me the entire trip was – food is what sustains life, nourishes and connects us, threading its …
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Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Networking and learning development, Older people
Evaluation of CHANGES Eat Well – Stay Active course
CFHS has provided some funding to CHANGES community health project in Musselburgh to carry out an evaluation of its Eat Well – Stay Active course. The aim of the course …
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Area of Work: Research and evaluation
CFHS annual development fund closing soon
Our annual development fund (previously known as the annual small grants scheme) is open for applications from groups and agencies in Scotland who would like to improve access to, and …
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Research around cooking skills
We are currently working with our colleagues in NHS Health Scotland to gather evidence around the impact of community cooking courses. For more information about our current cookery work, contact …
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Research and evaluation
A rich picture
Participants from the Building Evidence of Impact programme met in Edinburgh on 4 July 2013 to share learning from their ongoing work on self-evaluation. Group members described the work they …
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Areas of Work: Funding, Mental health and wellbeing, Research and evaluation
Plans for accessible food and health resources on our website
We are currently making plans to develop part of our website to provide information about, and links to, quality accessible food and health resources or pictorial recipes. These will be …