Tackling Health Inequalities in Scotland: working with communities – a partnership of Scottish Intermediary bodies, has been produced by Napier University on behalf of Community Food and Health Scotland), Community Health Exchange (CHEX), Voluntary Health Scotland and the UK Public Health Alliance, to highlight the contribution that national intermediary bodies make to the local tackling …
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Senscot launches new publication
Senscot has launched a new publication, Social Enterprise and the Healthy Working Lives Initiative (PDF, 2Mb), which highlights the involvement of five social enterprises in the Healthy Working Lives. Community food and health work features strongly.
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Issue 5 of Engage now available
Issue 5 of Engage, the magazine for the Meeting the Shared Challenge, is now available to download from the Health Scotland website www.healthscotland.com/uploads/documents/11133-EngageIssue5.pdf
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Third Sector Enterprise fund closing date
The Scottish Government has announced that the Third Sector Enterprise Fund will be closing for applications next week.. The fund was launched in January to help organisations increase their capacity and become more sustainable, and almost 300 organisations have applied for support from the Fund. As a result of the Enterprise Fund’s success, it will …
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Scottish Grocers Federation Healthy Living programme
A summary of the evaluation of the roll-out of the Scottish Grocers Federation’s ‘Healthy Living’ programme is now available. The summary highlights the key findings from the evaluation and includes a number of recommendations for any future development of this work.
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Going Forth conference
This year’s CFHS annual networking conference, Going Forth, was held at the Carnegie Conference Centre, Dunfermline on Thursday 22 October. This year’s event maintained a strong focus on community initiatives that are developing and sustaining food and health activities that address food access and health inequalities. As always the conference was very well-supported and attended. …
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Food and Health Alliance Conference
Places are still available for the Food and Health Alliance Conference which is taking place at Edinburgh Conference Centre on 17 November. The focus will be on the food and health aspects of Recipe for Success – Scotland’s National Food and Drink Policy. This event will be an opportunity to: understand future actions from the …
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BBC Children in Need
BBC Children in Need provides grants for up to three years to properly constituted not for profit organisations working with disadvantaged young people aged 18 or under. Funding is available to organisations, (including schools) that work with young people who are suffering from illness, distress, abuse or neglect, are disabled, have behavioural or psychological difficulties …
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What is the impact of volunteering in your organisation?
Volunteer Development Scotland (VDS) is currently piloting a Volunteer Impact Assessment toolkit and they are keen to work with a community food initiative as part of this pilot. The Volunteer Impact Assessment toolkit was originally developed by the Institute for Volunteering Research in response to growing demand for support from organisations to highlight the impact …
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Community food sector as a key contributor to health
In 2007 the Scottish Government launched its National Performance Framework which includes one overarching purpose, strategic objectives, 15 national outcomes and 45 national indicators. This outcomes focused approach details the national outcomes which the Scottish Government believe need to be achieved in order to make Scotland wealthier and fairer, safer and stronger, smarter, greener and …