CFHS, the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens, and the Food and Health Alliance are holding a joint event on 20 November, at Oatridge College, West Lothian, from 9.30 am to 4 pm. The event will give community growers, community retailers and Food and Health Alliance members an opportunity to find out more about …
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Approaches to improving food access/addressing food poverty with older people
Study tour to London, 1-3 October 2013 ‘The main thought that stayed with me the entire trip was – food is what sustains life, nourishes and connects us, threading its way through every part of daily life for older people, it is the universal vehicle for the health and wellbeing of our older population; so …
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Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Networking and learning development, Older people
Building Stronger Communities launch event
Scottish Community Development Centre (SCDC) will launch its new resource, Building Stronger Communities, on Tuesday 8th October 2013, 1.30pm – 4pm, at the Teacher Building, 14 St. Enoch Square, Glasgow G1 4DB. Building Stronger Communities: A practical assessment and planning tool for community capacity building in Scotland is an important new resource for practitioners and …
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Evaluation of CHANGES Eat Well – Stay Active course
CFHS has provided some funding to CHANGES community health project in Musselburgh to carry out an evaluation of its Eat Well – Stay Active course. The aim of the course is to improve the mental and physical wellbeing of people living in East Lothian. It is a six week course that consists of five weekly …
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Area of Work: Research and evaluation
Community Food Fund
The closing date for the second round of applications to the Community Food Fund is Thursday 3 October. The Fund is aimed a projects that want to support the development of food trials or networks, and / or establish local food and drink events to celebrate and promote food and drink. Community food initiatives are …
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Enterprise Ready Fund
The Enterprise Ready Fund is a Scottish Government funded programme which will distribute up to £6M from 2013 to 2015 to help maintain, develop and grow Scotland’s enterprising third sector. The Fund will provide grants of up to £250K to support the long-term development objectives of new, emerging and established enterprising third sector organisations in …
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CFHS annual development fund closing soon
Our annual development fund (previously known as the annual small grants scheme) is open for applications from groups and agencies in Scotland who would like to improve access to, and take up of, a healthy, varied and balanced diet. Grants from £500 to £3000 are available. The Fund closes at 5pm on Friday 9 August. …
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Out to lunch campaign
The Soil Association and Organix have recently launched their Out to Lunch campaign and are keen to involve parents in their attempt to improve the food and service offered to children and families when they eat out.
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Research around cooking skills
We are currently working with our colleagues in NHS Health Scotland to gather evidence around the impact of community cooking courses. For more information about our current cookery work, contact Kim.
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Research and evaluation
Development funding for work on maternal and infant nutrition across minority ethnic communities in Scotland
CFHS has a small amount of development funding available to support the development of good practice examples of work on maternal and infant nutrition across minority ethnic communities in Scotland. If you are already working on maternal and infant nutrition with minority ethnic communities and are looking to further develop your work, or want to …