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Food Research Collaboration

The Food Research Commission is currently mapping current and recent initiatives that work with local convenience stores/corner shops to improve healthy food provision (including promotion of Healthy Start Vouchers or …

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Empowering Communities Fund

Recently launched by the Scottish Government’s Communities Secretary, Angela Constance, this fund, which has £20 million available for 2018/19, comprises a number of targeted funds and programmes: the Strengthening Communities …

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Latest round of Climate Challenge Funding now open

Communities from across Scotland are set to benefit from further funding to support local action to tackle climate change, as part of the Scottish Government’s Climate Challenge Fund. Cabinet Secretary …

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Tackling child poverty

Communities and charities with new ideas to tackle child poverty will be given the opportunity to bid for part of a new £7.5 million Innovation Fund. Announced as part of …

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A seat at the table

There is increasing interest in the commencement of the official consultation around a Good Food Nation Bill. Watch out for details.

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Mapping participation requests one year on

Scottish Community Development Centre (SCDC) would like to hear from community groups and organisations about their experience of participation requests so far, even if, before reading this, you had never …

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1st World Congress on Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Health

Florence Dioka from Central and West Integration Network (CWIN) and our colleague Jacqui presented the poster below at the 1st World Congress on Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Health, on 18 May …

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CFHS blog – How can you support people with learning disabilities to eat better?

Finding good resources suitable to help people with learning disabilities to eat well can be a real challenge. The healthy eating, healthy living training pack is a unique tried-and-tested resource …

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Knowledge is Power: a new report on the importance of community-led action research in Scotland

Starting in 2017, the Scottish Community Development Centre (SCDC) and the Poverty Alliance worked with ten community organisations to co-design a resource framework which could be used to support communities …

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Scottish Government publication: independent analysis of responses to the consultation on a draft diet and healthy weight strategy

The Scottish Government has recently published an independent analysis of responses to the consultation on a draft diet and healthy weight strategy, held between October 2017 and January 2018. Over …

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