The Ethnic Minority Development Fund (EMDF) supports grassroots ethnic minority‑led organisations in Scotland to access funding, strengthen capacity and build long‑term sustainability. In the 2026 round, the EMDF offers grants of £500–£15,000, with a total of £500,000 available. More information and details of how to apply on the CEMVO website.
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Climate Action Fund – Food Systems
The National Lottery Community Fund has released a video presentation, introducing the latest round of the Climate Action Fund, which offers funding to strengthen food systems and reduce food insecurity. This webinar describes the funding available, who can apply, and top hints and tips. The video is available on YouTube.
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Financial support in Scotland
The National Lottery Community Fund is developing new funding programmes, part of which will focus on financial inclusion. To help develop this funding, they want to hear from organisations that work with people who: experience financial crisis; cannot access or use financial services; have problem debt; and cannot access fair and affordable credit. More information …
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Fixing Food for Good
The Good Food Bill: Fixing Food for Good, Preventing the next cost-of-living crisis This new briefing from the Food Foundation sets out the case for a Good Food Bill as a necessary statutory framework to transform England’s food system and ensure food and nutrition security for current and future generations by protecting citizens, farmers and …
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Advancing Green Health Framework
greenspace scotland, NatureScot and Public Health Scotland have published A Framework for Advancing Green Health in Scotland – a joint commitment to ensure that Scotland’s natural environment plays a full and coordinated role in improving the health and wellbeing of its people. The framework sets out a shared vision, six pillars and 15 priority actions, …
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Community research cafes
The Centre for Health Policy at Glasgow’s Strathclyde University is running community research cafes, informal spaces where third sector and community led organisations can access support on research, evaluation and impact monitoring. These drop-in sessions will run throughout 2026-27. More information, including an explanatory five-minute video and a list of forthcoming dates, is available on the …
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CFHS e-bulletin March 2026
Our latest bulletin has news about our upcoming online peer session as well as information about events, funding and reports for the community food sector. You can read the e-bulletin here.
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Evaluating Prevention Workshop
Public Health Scotland is partnering with Evaluation Support Scotland (ESS) to offer a free practical and interactive online workshop designed to help you strengthen how you evaluate Prevention work in the community food sector. Tuesday 31st March 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Online workshop via Zoom Workshop outcomes By the end of the session, you will be …
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Scotland-wide Money Counts training
This training session from the Independent Food Aid Network and Citizens Advice Scotland is designed for frontline staff and volunteers working across Scotland who may have brief conversations with people about their money worries or financial struggles as part of their work. Promoting a cash first approach to food insecurity 8 April 2026 11 am …