The Scottish Food Coalition wants to hear about the impact on the ground of the Covid-19 crisis on Scotland’s food system. It is looking for stories 100-200 words with one picture, or a 1-1.5 min video, sharing your exerience of the Covid-19 emergency and its effect on the food system. Visit the Scottish Food Coalition …
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Charity Survival Fund
This £10m Fund from the Julia and Hans Rausing Trust will provide core funding to help charities, especially small and medium sized, to offset lost income in the current financial year due to the Covid-19 crisis. More information and details of how to apply on the Trust website.
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Two new Public Health Scotland learning hubs
Public Health Scotland’s Workforce Development Team has launched two new learning hubs: · Challenging poverty stigma · Making communication even better The Challenging poverty hub creates an opportunity to develop understanding of poverty stigma and discrimination. The communications hub raises awareness and understanding of how to improve communication skills. Learners can access the learning hubs …
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Scottish Government’s Community and Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES) funding and support
As Scotland starts to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis, there is an opportunity to focus on a green recovery by aiding economic activity that puts tackling climate change and our ambition to reach net zero at the heart of everything we do. CARES grants and loans are available for feasibility, development work and capital costs …
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Access to Childcare fund
This Scottish Government fund is being administered by Children in Scotland and will provide grants to test models of delivering accessible and affordable school age childcare for low-income families, allowing parents to reduce childcare costs, work more flexibly and increase their incomes. The £3 million fund will be delivered over two years with a total …
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The right foundations – new CHEX briefing
Our colleagues at CHEX have produced a new briefing on how we can use the community-led response to Covid-19 to help build back better in Scotland. CHEX, part of SCDC, highlights how the reaction to coronavirus has shown what is possible in terms of radically shifting our emphasis towards the things that really matter. You can …
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A snapshot of Covid-19, food insecurity and community food initiatives: What happened and what can we learn?
About the snapshot In March 2020, the community and voluntary, private and public sectors responded to the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lock-down. Community food initiatives either closed because of lock-down restrictions and others rapidly changed their services to meet a rise in the need for food delivery or food aid services. This snapshot attempts to …
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CFHS blog: Food insecurity research conference – learning from across the globe
We recently attended the second ENUF (Evidence and Network on UK Household Food Insecurity) UK conference on research, food and poverty. Around 200 people attended this virtual conference, including a good mix of people from academia, public health and community food projects. This two day conference covered many topics. In this blog we provide a …
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Social Enterprise Network Scotland
As of 1st July, Senscot and Social Firms Scotland (SFS) will merge into a new, single entity – Social Enterprise Network Scotland. Both Senscot and SFS have played their respective roles in helping to support the Scottish social enterprise community over the last two decades – and the new body – will now act as …
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Joint Thematic Social Enterprise Network session: supporting your staff back to work
Thursday 16th July 2-3.30pm via Zoom Douglas Strang of BTO Solicitors Employment team will talk you through the practicalities of getting your staff back to work as we move through the Scottish Government’s phased approach to easing lockdown. Lindsay MacNeill from BTO’s Health and Safety team will review your duties as an employer to ensure …