Between August 2017 and March 2018 we worked with a small group of community cafes to look at self-evaluation. Together they developed a list of community cafe outcomes to reflect the range of differences cafes can make for their customers, volunteers and community members. Six of the cafés involved carried out self-evaluation activities in the last few months. …
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Self-evaluation programme for community cafes
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Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Research and evaluation
Community Food Social Enterprise Network and community retailers ‘sharing good practice’ sessions
Around 40 community food initiatives took part in an event on 7 March, run jointly by CFHS and Senscot. A community food social enterprise network session was held in the morning, and a community retailers ‘sharing good practice’ session in the afternoon. The morning session looked at issues that community food social enterprises (or aspiring …
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Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Networking and learning development
Job done
With the imminent implementation by government of a Soft Drinks Industry Levy, the Children’s Health Fund are closing their voluntary levy which has distributed £162,000 to local communities over a two and a half year pilot. More information available on the Sustain website.
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Time to Digest
Despite the Arctic conditions and transport systems in chaos, practitioners, policy makers and researchers from across Scotland and beyond met in Glasgow for this latest get together looking at measurement of food poverty and how this understanding can be best applied within policy and practice. Organised by NHS Health Scotland jointly with A Menu for …
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Area of Work: Food poverty and access
New National Lottery funding now open for Year of Young People
Funding of between £3,000 and £10,000 is available for heritage, community and sports projects that are run for and by young people aged eight to 26 years old and that improve their health and wellbeing. https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk
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Area of Work: Funding
Latest round of the Climate Challenge Fund
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon recently visited the 1,000th recipient of the Climate Challenge Fund (CCF) as she announced the latest grants totalling £15.3 million. More information and details of how to apply on the Keep Scotland Beautiful website.
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Area of Work: Funding
Dignity in Practice Report
Nourish Scotland and the Poverty Truth Commission have released a report that aims to be a practical resource to help community food providers to think about what dignity looks like in practice and how this can be achieved. Dignity in Practice looks at how a number of people who are experiencing food insecurity face not only …
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People’s Health Fund – Active Communities Funding
Local groups and organisations with great ideas to make their communities even better places to live are now invited to apply for funding to turn their ideas into reality. Active Communities is a funding programme for community groups and not-for-profit organisations, with an income of less than £350,000 a year or an average of £350,000 …
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Best Start Foods: making the most of Healthy Start reform
Join Nourish Scotland and Voluntary Health Scotland at this event in Edinburgh on 22nd May to discuss how the reform of the Scottish Government Healthy Start scheme into Best Start Foods can best benefit low-income families. The organisers are particularly keen to hear from individuals and community groups that have experience of Healthy Start vouchers, …