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Challenging poverty in Glasgow

Challenging poverty in Glasgow Challenge Poverty Week is coming up. (2 -8 October)2, which aims to challenge the injustice of poverty and show how collective action can help. One of its five policy asks is around food, ‘A Scotland where no-one goes hungry’. Many community food initiatives work in collaboration with others to address poverty. …

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CFHS August e-bulletin

Our latest e-bulletin has information on learning from collaboration, diet and nutrition, research and policy, as well as news, reports, latest events and funding. You can access the e-bulletin here

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CFHS e-bulletin July 2023

Our latest e-bulletin has information on community food and local food partnerships, Good Food Nation, and the Scottish Government’s Cash-First fund, as well as news, reports, latest events and funding. You can access the e-bulletin here.

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Climate Engagement Fund

The Scottish Government Climate Engagement Fund (CEF) aims to build understanding of the climate emergency across communities in Scotland, both geographic and communities of interest, by offering support for climate engagement activities. The total value of the CEF is £550,000. Bidders can request between £50,000 and £100,000 in total for larger scale engagement projects. Both …

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Stronger Starts funding

Tesco has partnered with Groundwork to create a new £5.3m grant programme called Stronger Starts. Its goal is to give 1 million children a Stronger Start by helping fund healthy food and fitness activities that can improve their physical health and mental wellbeing – from breakfast clubs to playground equipment, football kits to gardening classes. …

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Please share information about your community food cash-first approaches

If you are involved in a community food initiative and you use or are developing cash-first or holistic approaches to help tackle food insecurity, we would like to hear from you. Please send an email to phs.cfhs@phs.scot with a couple of sentences about your work and we will contact you for more information.

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Scottish Government Cash-First Fund

The Fund has now opened for applications and will remain open for five weeks – closing at 5pm on Friday 1 September 2023. The Guidance Note and Application Form are available online: https://www.gov.scot/publications/cash-first-fund-form-and-guidance/pages/overview/ We welcome applications from Partnerships made up of public sector and third sector organisations for collaborative work to improve urgent local access …

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Community food and local food partnerships

In this blog post we show how the community food sector is playing a role in the development of Sustainable Food Places (SFP) in Scotland and how SFP aims can contribute to plans for Scotland to become a Good Food Nation. The community food sector can play a key role in local collaborative work, and …

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Eating Well with Dementia – A Guide for Carers

Eating Well with Dementia – A Guide for Carers This resource provides guidance for carers of people with dementia to support eating and drinking for nourishment and well-being. Developed in partnership with NDR-UK and NHS Lanarkshire, and supported by Alzheimer Scotland, it is appropriate for distribution via community groups and charities. Printed copies can be …

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Grants for Good Fund

The Matthew Good Foundation has a fund of £15,000 available to charities, voluntary organisations, and social enterprises that will be shared every 3 months between 5 shortlisted projects that have a positive impact on communities, people or the environment. More information and details of how to apply on the Matthew Good Foundation website.

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