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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Launch of Scottish Government Resilience Fund
The Scottish Government has just announced the launch of a £1.7 million Resilience Fund, for third sector organisations that have been affected by the recession. Grants of between £10,000 and …
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Single Outcome Agreements
Single Outcome Agreements (SOAs) are now the key way that Community Planning Partnerships (CPPs) identify their priorities for local communities, in line with national outcomes identified by the Scottish Government. …
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Minding Their Own Business Too
In 2006 CFHS produced Minding Their Own Business, an introduction to business and social enterprise for organisations supporting local communities tackling inequalities in diet and health. Minding Their Own Business …
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CFHS annual networking conference open for bookings
Booking forms are now available for this year’s annual networking conference, Going Forth, to be held at the Carnegie Conference Centre on 22 October. Please visit the Current Work section …
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Healthier food pilots
CFHS is looking to expand its work with black and ethnic minority communities and want to hear from groups and organisations that have ideas about work they would like to …
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Regional networking events
As part of the second year of the ‘Healthy Communities: Meeting the Shared Challenge’ programme CHEX is hosting 4 ‘Regional Networking Events’. The events are aimed at community and voluntary …
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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 …