“Community anchor” has become a bit of a cool term, to describe the stature and relevance of organisations within a community to funders and policy makers. Alongside “anchor organisation” and “anchor institution” (see box insert) this jargon is doing the rounds, and though the language is not new[1], I wonder if we all mean the …
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“Community anchor” – big or small? What’s in this term for community food initiatives to think about?
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Area of Work: Information provision
Social enterprise and community cafe activity
This new briefing paper from Senscot aims to establish the core purposes these activities serve and gain insight into how community cafe activity is resourced, particularly with regards to the challenges of turning over a surplus. This paper will be followed by a series of shorter publications with a focus on peer-to-peer learning around the …
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The Reckoning – food insecurity measurement and its application to policy and practice – update
This event, held at Edinburgh Training Centre on 25 November 2019, was organised jointly with the Scottish Government, who gave an update on the data currently collected by the Scottish Health Survey and the move to questions within the UK-wide Family Resources Survey. A Menu for Change were also involved in organising the event and …
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Area of Work: Networking and learning development
Food for Life Get Togethers in Scotland – bringing communities closer. Resources available.
The Soil Association’s Food for Life Get Togethers are fun activities and events involving good food that bring people of different ages and backgrounds together. They can be big or small and might involve growing, cooking, eating or all three! If you think you could run a Food for Life Get Together for your community, …
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Scottish Cancer Prevention Network newsletter
A tenth anniversary edition of their newsletter has just gone out from the Scottish Cancer Prevention Network and is available from their website.
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Environmental Protection Scotland’s new publication
Of interest to community growers would be Environmental Protection Scotland’s publication on land contamination, available from their website.
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RSA’s Food, Farming and Countryside Scottish Commission report
The report from the RSA’s Food, Farming and Countryside Scottish Commission is available on their website.
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Update: Priceless CFHS Annual Networking Conference, 4 November 2019
Community Food and Health Scotland’s 2019 Annual Networking Conference – Priceless – was an informative event, which stimulated many interesting discussions and was an excellent networking opportunity. Our keynote speaker’s Wendy Wills Presentation at Priceless Conference has been uploaded. Please follow this link to read the Conference summary report. In addition, an evaluation survey summary …
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Area of Work: Networking and learning development
What do researchers talk about when they talk about cooking skills courses?
I was recently lucky enough to attend and present the results of our realist evaluation of cooking skills courses at a conference in Lisbon. This was the 3rd COOK and Health international conference and was attended by around 60 researchers, all of whom, like me, were enthusiastic about cooking skills. So what did we have …