Following the success of previous visits, CFHS is running further community café learning visits this year. These are open to anyone involved in running or setting up a community café. Participants will have the chance to find out about the cafes hosting the visits, meet other community café practitioners and share and learn about good …
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Community cafe learning visits
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Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Networking and learning development
Hard Choices
‘Hard Choices: Reducing the need for food banks in Scotland’, published by the Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland in association with Oxfam and the Trussell Trust is launched today. The report builds on UK-wide research and focuses on six in-depth interviews conducted with families in central Scotland. More information available from www.cpag.org.uk/scotland
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SCDC briefing on Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act
SCDC has written a briefing explaining the provisions of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act and setting out some of the implications and opportunities they have for community development, community organisations and community planning. It is primarily aimed at those involved in community development, whether as community organisations, practitioners or public agencies. SCDC will publish further …
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CFHS annual networking conference 2015
The CFHS annual networking conference took place at the end of October in Perth. Thank you to those who attended and participated in the day making the day what it was. The conference was an opportunity for people to come together, learn from each other and share experience on all aspects of food, inequality and …
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Area of Work: Networking and learning development
Creating a Fairer Scotland – Planning Events
As part of the Scottish Government’s Creating a Fairer Scotland conversation, a series of local planning events will be taking place to allow a broadly representative audience to hear, discuss, prioritise and take action on ideas to make Scotland a fairer place to live and make a real impact on Scotland’s future. The priorities that …
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Community food fund
The closing date for the next round of the Community Food Fund is 3 September. Community food initiatives that want to celebrate and promote local food through running events and linking with local producers are welcome to apply. Applicants can apply for up to £25,000. The fund closes in March 2016. More information is available …
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New Eat Better Feel Better activity
The Eat Better Feel Better (EBFB) campaign is planning new marketing activity from August onwards. The campaign will be running on TV from 10 August and the EBFB event team will be on the road again from 13-22 August visiting retailers across Scotland. Full information about the activities and resources on offer can be found …
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CFHS development funding schemes now closed
The CFHS development funding schemes are now closed to applications Our capacity building fund is still taking applications. Please visit the Funding section for more information.
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Area of Work: Funding
Just Growth: a new funding programme for food and farming projects
Just Growth is a new funding programme created by the FEA, Co-operative and Community Finance and the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation launched on 13th July 2015. The aim of the programme is to support social enterprises that are producing food in an environmentally and socially just way. A key aim is to encourage community ownership and the programme …
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New healthy eating and food safety online resource launched by Food Standards Scotland
The Cookin Castle online game supports the Scottish Government’s Curriculum for Excellence and uses a friendly wizard to guide pupils through the website and games which aim to teach pupils the importance of a healthy balanced diet. The game also highlights the importance of good food hygiene, such as correct food storage and effective hand …