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Expressions of Interest sought: delivering training on community engagement training

CFHS is seeking Expressions of Interest to deliver training on community engagement. Full details are available in the Current Work section

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Expressions of Interest sought: What is the impact of the CFHS small grants scheme?

CFHS is seeking expressions of interest for a research project to establish the impact of our annual small grants scheme beyond the evaluation of the funded activities. Full details of this research project are available in the Current Work section

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An introduction to social impact and how you measure it

A few places are still available on this one-day workshop, being held on Wednesday 10 March. The workshop is being run by the Social Enterprise Academy for CFHS. If you want to measure the social, economic and environmental impact that your services have on the communities and individuals that you work with, then this workshop …

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Development of a Healthy Weight Outcomes Framework: a contribution from community food initiatives

Community Food and Health (Scotland) and NHS Health Scotland are collaborating to host an event that provides an exciting opportunity for community food initiatives to contribute to the development of this outcomes framework. The event will be held on Wednesday 17 March at the Scottish Book Trust in Edinburgh. Further information and a booking form …

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Evidencing our outcomes – celebrating our contribution

Across Scotland community food initiatives are making a difference. Through improved access to food, communities address health inequalities and improve the health of individuals and families. 24-hour learning event15/16 April 2010Venue to be confirmed CFHS are pleased to invite you to start a journey to evidence and celebrate outcomes. The journey will bring together people …

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Celebrating the 50th edition of Fare Choice

In CFHS’s most recent edition of Fare Choice (edition 50!) we included a couple of exciting opportunities for community food initiatives across Scotland. Firstly, we included a template for community food initiatives to complete, telling us about how you feel your work is contributing to national outcomes. More information and a copy of the template …

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Edition 50 of Fare Choice now available

This month our quarterly newsletter, Fare Choice, reaches its 50th edition and looks back at initiatives featured in the first edition and how they have managed to sustain their activities. Fare Choice is available to download now from the Publications Library.

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CFHS annual networking conference open for bookings

Booking forms are now available for this year’s annual networking conference, Going Forth, to be held at the Carnegie Conference Centre on 22 October. Please visit the Current Work section for more details.

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Healthier food pilots

CFHS is looking to expand its work with black and ethnic minority communities and want to hear from groups and organisations that have ideas about work they would like to do, to improve the take-up of a healthy diet within black and ethnic minority communities. We are looking to fund three small scale pilot pieces …

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CFHS launches two new publications

Food, training and learning disability highlights work in Scotland to improve food and health for people with learning disabilities. The report focuses on a training project for support workers but also includes case studies from groups that regularly deliver cooking skills and healthy eating activities with people with learning disabilities. The Missing Ingredients is based …

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