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Events and conferences

Community Food Social Enterprise Network

The next meeting of the Community Food Social Enterprise Network is being held on Tuesday 24 April at 3 pm in the Crescent Kitchen, Broomhouse Centre, Edinburgh. The meeting will include a tour of Crescent Kitchen and an input from Angie Foreman from Wooden Spoon Catering in Dundee, who will talk about balancing social impact …

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Mind the Menu

This CFHS event on community food work supporting mental health and wellbeing has now been rescheduled to Wednesday 6 June at Discovery Point in Dundee. Further information and details of how to book are available in the Current Work section.

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Community Food Social Enterprise Network meeting

The next Community Food Social Enterprise Network meeting is being held on Wednesday 21st March, 3pm at the Crescent Cafe in the Broomhouse Centre, Edinburgh. There will be a tour of the Broomhouse Centre and speaker (to be confirmed). If you would like to attend, or for more details about the meeting or the Network, …

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CFHS annual networking conference 2013

Delegates thoroughly enjoyed the CFHS national networking conference held at COSLA conference centre, Edinburgh on 31 October.  Delegates included community food initiative workers, people from community gardens, volunteers, NHS staff, planners, policy makers and researchers. The conference was an excellent opportunity for people to come together and discuss food, health inequalities and social justice.  Highlights …

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Speakers announced for the 2012 National Food and Drink Policy Conference

The Scottish Government has just announced the line-up of speakers for its National Food and Drink Policy Conference, which is to be held in Perth on Wednesday 7 March 2012. For further information and details of how to book a place, see this news item on the Scottish Government website.

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Mind the Menu: community food work supporting mental health and wellbeing

Booking forms are now available for this CFHS event to be held on Wednesday 29 February. Visit the Current Work section for more details.

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Fare Futures – CFHS annual networking conference

Thanks to everyone who sent in a booking form for our annual conference in November. We are now fully booked and looking forward to a busy and productive day. Confirmation of places and programme information will be sent out to delegates at the beginning of next week.

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Strengthening food work across minority ethnic communities

Notes from two meetings held with organisations in Edinburgh (24 August) and Glasgow (25 August) to look at what is needed to further support food work across minority ethnic communities in Scotland are now available to download from the Publications Library. Please contact Sue if you have any queries or anything you would want to …

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Fare Futures, CFHS free annual networking conference

Booking forms are now available for Fare Futures, our free annual networking conference, which will be held on Thursday 3 November 2011 at the Carnegie Conference Centre in Dunfermline. See our Current Work section for more information and details of how to book.

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Remote Rural Retailing

A free seminar discussing the findings of three year’s action research around northern Europe, including the Highlands and Islands, is to be held in Inverness in September. “Retail in Rural Regions” is a three year (2009-2011) transnational project funded under the EU Northern Periphery Programme and the Regional Development programme, with match funding in Scotland …

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