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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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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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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World Health Day
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is calling for urgent action to ensure that, at a time when the world’s population is ageing rapidly, people reach old age in the best possible health. This was the key message for World Health Day (April 7 2012). “The main health challenges for older people everywhere are noncommunicable diseases, …