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Join the Scottish Alliance for Food (SCAF)

The recently formed Alliance focuses on research excellence across different disciplines and sectors to deliver focused, concerted actions to facilitate systems thinking and transformative research, to support a sustainable food …

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Menu for All

Edinburgh Community Food recently launched Edinburgh’s new food poverty network. ‘Menu for all’ will combine food and support access aims to give Edinburgh the scalable capacity to respond to need, …

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Child Poverty Hub

A new Child Poverty Learning Hub has been launched by Public Health Scotland – five free courses that aim to provide an overview of the issue as well as outlining …

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CFHS September e-bulletin

Our latest e-bulletin has information on challenging poverty in Glasgow, diet and nutrition, research and policy, as well as news, reports, latest events and funding. You can access the e-bulletin …

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Programme for Government

Equality, Opportunity, and Community is the focus for the Scottish Government this year. The range of food-related actions in the programme include: plans to introduce measures that will extend eligibility …

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Challenging Poverty in Glasgow

Many community food initiatives work in collaboration with others to address poverty. One example is Glasgow Community Food Network (GCFN), which brings together a wide range of community food initiatives …

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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 …

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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. …

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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 …

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