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 …
CFHS updates
Development of a Healthy Weight Outcomes Framework: a contribution from community food initiatives
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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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Business support for community food initiatives facing sustainability issues
A programme of business support for up to 10 community food initiatives that expect to face sustainability isses within the next 6-18 months is now open. The programme will provide successful applicants with up to seven days business advice from a social enterprise support agency. Applications are being accepted from now until the end of …
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Economic evaluation: call for expressions of interest
In response to identified need, Community Food and Health (Scotland) is currently supporting two economic evaluations of community food and health projects. One of these projects is the Edinburgh Community Food Initiative (ECFI) Happy Jack Project, funded by the Sure Start Programme through The City of Edinburgh Council. We are currently seeking expressions of interest …
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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 …