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UK reports on Covid-19 responses

Carnegie UK Trust has produced this new report, Pooling Together: How Community Hubs have responded to the COVID-19 Emergency, featuring case studies from hubs throughout the UK, available on the Carnegie website. Sustain’s report, Community …

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Eat Well Age Well – the hidden problem of malnutrition

Eat Well Age Well has launched a research study and calls to action as part of its activities to support UK Malnutrition Awareness Week (5 – 12 October).  The major …

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Postcode Recovery Fund

The Postcode Recovery Fund has been created to support charities to develop innovative solutions that address the many issues affecting people as society recovers from the effects of the pandemic. …

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Covid-19 responses from the community food sector in Fife

Two new reports are now available that look at Covid-19 responses from the community food sector in Fife, looking back and moving forward. Fife Food Champions are people who have …

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Your expertise and experience is required

Ideas are being gathered by the Scottish Government’s Advisory Board on Social Renewal, from the experience of community groups responding to the pandemic, to drive a fairer recovery in the …

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Public Health Scotland Strategic Plan has launched

Earlier this week, Public Health Scotland published its three year strategy. It is driven by a vision of a Scotland in which everybody thrives: where healthy life expectancy increases, health …

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#CommunityFoodNearMe – Gracemount Community Garden

In this bumper version of the #CommunityFoodNearMe social media posts that we have been sharing this week, we have a wee slideshow of colleague Jacqui’s visit to Gracemount Community Garden, …

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New reports from Public Health Scotland

Two new reports from Public Health Scotland should be of interest to Scotland’s community food initiatives. The COVID-19 Shielding Programme (Scotland) Impact and Experience Survey presents the findings of this online …

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The Broken Plate 2020

This new report by the Food Foundation, The Broken Plate 2020, documents the health of our food system, how it impacts our lives and why we must change the food …

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Never the Same Again? Addressing Poverty After the Pandemic

The Poverty Alliance conference this year will be a series of online sessions to explore different aspects of the impact of the pandemic on poverty. They are designed to open …

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