The Big Lottery Fund (BIG) has announced that its Community Spaces Programme will re-open for applications in June 2012. Through the programme, grants of between £10,000 and £250,000 are available …
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Savour the flavour – the African Kitchen
The Co-operative Savour the Flavour roadshow is travelling round Scotland at the end of June and the beginning of July. The African Kitchen will give Co-operative Members useful ideas and recipes using …
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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 …
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More Village SOS funding
The Big Lottery Fund has announced a second round of Village SOS funding totalling £4 million, which will open on 10 April. Grants of between £10,000 and £50,000 are available …
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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 …
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Case Studies
CORE (Community Organisation for Race Equality) has developed a case study on their World Cafe. It covers the background and history of the World Cafe, the essential elements of the …
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Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Minority ethnic communities
National Parenting Strategy
The Scottish Government would welcome the views of early years workers as it develops the National Parenting Strategy. The strategy will be wide ranging, focusing on parents of children of …
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NHS Health Scotland Healthy Living publications update
The NHS Health Scotland suite of Healthy Living public facing resources will be updated in 2012-13 and support is needed to guide the development of these national publications. These publications …
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Mind the Menu speaker announced
Simon Bradstreet, Network Director of the Scottish Recovery Network will be one of the speakers at the Mind the Menu event on 6 June in Dundee. This free event will …