CFHS updates

CFHS August e-bulletin

Posted: September 1, 2023

Our latest e-bulletin has information on learning from collaboration, diet and nutrition, research and policy, as well as news, reports, latest events and funding. You can access the e-bulletin here

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CFHS e-bulletin July 2023

Posted: August 2, 2023

Our latest e-bulletin has information on community food and local food partnerships, Good Food Nation, and the Scottish Government’s Cash-First fund, as well as news, reports, latest events and funding. You can access the e-bulletin here.

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Please share information about your community food cash-first approaches

Posted: August 1, 2023

If you are involved in a community food initiative and you use or are developing cash-first or holistic approaches to help tackle food insecurity, we would like to hear from you. Please send an email to phs.cfhs@phs.scot with a couple of sentences about your work and we will contact you for more information.

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Community food and local food partnerships

Posted: July 27, 2023

In this blog post we show how the community food sector is playing a role in the development of Sustainable Food Places (SFP) in Scotland and how SFP aims can contribute to plans for Scotland to become a Good Food Nation. The community food sector can play a key role in local collaborative work, and …

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CFHS e-bulletin June 2023

Posted: June 26, 2023

Our latest e-bulletin has information on cash-first approaches to food insecurity, and features the Scottish Government Towards Ending the Need for Food Banks plan, as well as news, reports, latest events and funding. You can access the e-bulletin here.

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Cash-first: Towards Ending the Need for Food Banks in Scotland: plan

Posted: June 6, 2023

A commitment to a ‘cash-first’ approach to tackling food insecurity is at the heart of a new Scottish Government plan to reduce the need for people to turn to food banks. The plan sets out nine actions which will be taken over the next three years to improve responses to food insecurity. The role of …

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CFHS e-bulletin May 2023

Posted: June 1, 2023

Our latest e-bulletin has information on community food organisation activities, and news from UK and Scottish Government, new reports and latest events and funding. You can access the e-bulletin here.

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Learning from collaborating with or within the community food sector

Posted: April 27, 2023

We recently provided funding for organisations in three local authority areas to support our pilot learning collaboration project. The aim of this project is to support increased collaboration locally and to make a difference across all three of our Community Food National Reference group’s priority areas of work. These are: supporting ‘cash first’ responses to …

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CFHS e-bulletin April 2023

Posted: April 27, 2023

Our latest e-bulletin has details of our pilot learning collaboration project, as well as news on policy, funding, and forthcoming events and recent reading and podcasts. You can access the e-bulletin here.

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CFHS March e-bulletin

Posted: March 27, 2023

Our latest e-bulletin includes the latest health, poverty and diet reports, what community food initiatives are doing as well as events, recordings and funding. The e-bulletin is available here. 

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