Presentations from the speakers at yesterday’s event now available on the CHEX website www.chex.org.uk
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CHEX annual conference 1 March 2017 – power, inequality and community-led health
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CFHS development fund recipients 2016
In total, 38 voluntary and community groups have been allocated development funding by Community Food and Health Scotland, allowing them to promote and deliver healthy eating initiatives. CFHS, part of …
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Cooking skills Blog 26: Finding out if your cooking skills courses are ‘working’: Using both questionnaires and observation as methods
This week, my colleague Jacqui and I have been visiting members of our cooking skills study group and discussing what we have been finding out so far from some of …
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision, Research and evaluation
Growing a Greener Britain Small Grants Programme Opens to Applications
Growing a Greener Britain has been set up by idverde UK, a nationwide contractor that creates and maintains parks and open spaces across the UK, to help fund community projects …
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Booking open for CFHS community café visits
Booking is now open for CFHS’s latest community café learning visits, on 24 March in Edinburgh. The visits are open to anyone involved in or with a community café. The …
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Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Aspiring Communities Fund opens for applications
The Scottish Government’s new two year £18.9 million Aspiring Communities Fund is currently inviting applications for the first funding round, which closes on 7 April 2017. The Fund will help enable …
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Cooking skills blog 25: Finding out if your cooking skills courses are ‘working’: Guest blog by Jacqui McDowell: ‘The confidence conundrum’
This week, my colleague Jacqui McDowell gives her views on the challenges (and possible solutions) to measuring confidence: ‘If I could, I’d ban people from using the word confidence in …
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision
Postcode Community Trust’s Community Grants scheme
The Postcode Community Trust provides short-term, designated funding to grass-roots community sports, arts, recreation, physical and mental health projects taking place in England, Scotland and Wales. There is a two-stage …
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Postcode Local Trust first round for 2017 now open
The Postcode Local Trust offers short-term, designated funding for local projects which support wildlife areas, sustainability initiatives, volunteer citizenship, indoor and outdoor spaces in England, Scotland and Wales. The Trust …
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Cooking skills blog 27: Cooking skills research: Are you more likely to cook if you have cooking skills?
This blog post looks at a research article which suggests that possessing cooking ‘skills’ is only one of a range of factors associated with whether a person is actually more …