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Events and conferences

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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Food social enterprise network meeting

The second meeting of the community food social enterprise network is being held on 29 June from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Ore Valley Business Centre, Lochgelly, Fife. All community food initiatives that are, or aspire to become, social enterprises are invited. A light lunch is being provided. If you’d like to attend, please …

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CFHS call for conference workshop leaders

The CFHS Annual networking conference will take place on 3 November 2011 at the Carnegie Conference Centre in Dunfermline. This year the conference will focus on ‘where food sits within the wider health improvement and health inequalities agenda’. Delivering a workshop about community food and health work with participants around the conference theme will be …

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Meals and messages a focus on food services for older people living in the community

Tuesday 21 June 10.00 am – 1.00pmNorton Park Conference Centre, Edinburgh CFHS together with Consumer Focus Scotland will launch the recommendations from their recent study of food services for older people living in the community. If you are interested in this agenda, want to share good practice and ideas for for reshaping care in Scotland …

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Healthy Eating Healthy Living Project evaluation launch

Friday 10 June Central Glasgow The Scottish Government funded Healthy Eating Healthy Living Project promotes healthy eating messages in an accessible way to adults with Learning Disabilities. This event will: Report on the results and learning from the six pilot sites; View and explore future use of resources and materials e.g. a DVD produced by …

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Maternal and Infant Nutrition Conference 2011

Tuesday 21 June9.30am – 4.15pmBeardmore Hotel, Clydebank This conference will bring together practitioners from the NHS, local authorities and the third sector who will be working together to implement the Improving Maternal and Infant Nutrition Framework. For more information contact lynn.soutar@nhs.net

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Beyond Smoothies

Tuesday 15 February 2011Albany Centre, Glasgow10 am to 3.15 pm (lunch provided) Places are still available at this free event. The aim of the event is to learn from other groups and agencies across Scotland that are carrying out food and health work with young people. The event will be based on workshops and aims …

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Stimulating the Taste

SCOFF (the Scottish Colloquium on Food and Feeding) in association with the Dept of Marketing, University of Strathclyde, is holding a workshop for anyone interested in food and the written word to come together to share their work and interest. The organisers would like to extend an invitation to anyone interesting in sharing their work …

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