The Scottish Community Alliance (SCA) is co-ordinating a Communities Day at the Scottish Parliament on 26 April. The day will offer a mixture of debate and discussion on some of the key issues facing Scotland’s communities as well as providing an opportunity to celebrate achievements. Delegates from different parts of the sector have been invited …
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Third sector and NHS engagement
Effective engagement between the Third Sector and the NHS is more important than ever and two recent developments will hopefully be of assistance to both sectors. The Engagement Matrix provides tools and guidance and will be backed-up by a new on-line resource called Discover the Third Sector. Both have been produced by Scottish Government working …
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Scottish Government consultation on creating a New Food Body in Scotland
A consultation on creating a New Food Body in Scotland began yesterday. The consultation can be accessed on the Scottish Government website. Written responses to this consultation are invited by 22 May 2013. Please send your response with the completed Respondent Information Form to either: Newfoodbodyconsultation@scotland.gsi.gov.uk or Karen McCallum-Smith, Public Health Division, Directorate for Chief Medical Officer and …
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Capacity building training
Following on from discussion at the meetings in 2011, CFHS funded learning opportunities for staff and volunteers involved in community food work with minority ethnic communities in Scotland. In autumn 2011, CFHS funded two Elementary Food and Health courses. One course was provided by Edinburgh Community Food and ran at Norton Park Conference Centre in …
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Areas of Work: Food and nutrition training, Minority ethnic communities, Networking and learning development
Networking meeting for organisations working to strengthen food work across minority ethnic communities
CFHS held a national networking meeting for organisations working to strengthen food work across minority ethnic communities on Friday 15 March in Glasgow. Tanveer Parnez and Emilia Petka from BEMIS provided a presentation on the findings of the study into community and voluntary organisations working on maternal and infant nutrition. Natalie Ouriachi spoke about developing …
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Areas of Work: Minority ethnic communities, Networking and learning development
Maternal and infant nutrition across ME communities in Scotland
CFHS worked in partnership with BEMIS to look at the specific needs of community and voluntary sector organisations supporting work on maternal and infant nutrition across minority ethnic communities in Scotland. BEMIS has collated information on community and voluntary organisations working in the field of maternal and infant nutrition across minority ethnic communities in Scotland, …
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Areas of Work: Families with children, Minority ethnic communities
Theory of change research
Rock Solid Social Research has completed its work looking at the ‘theory of change’ that underpins the work of community food initiatives that are looking to improve food access for older people. Eight organisations agreed to be involved in the work and have now agreed worked models based on their discussion with the consultant. A generic model has …
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Areas of Work: Older people, Research and evaluation
Publications giveaway
We have lots of copies of really useful publications to share with you and due to space limitations when we move we will not be able to take all of these with us. Please contact us by Monday 18 March (indicating publication name(s) and quantities) if you would like hard copies of : What’s cooking …
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International School Meals Day – Friday 8 March 2013
International School Meals Day is a collaborative project that began between the USA and Scotland and is aimed at raising the profile/value/importance of school meals. Various supporting organisations will be undertaking activities in support of the day including Scottish and AmericanSchools, Local authorities, APSE, ASSIST, Food for Life, BBC world class, Mary’s Meals, Global Child …
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Learning exchanges
In 2012 CFHS, in collaboration with two health intermediaries, the Community Health Exchange (CHEX) and Voluntary Health Scotland (VHS) and the Scottish Government Third Sector Unit, created opportunities for structured dialogue between community-led health organisations and Scottish Government officials. This involved officials spending time visiting projects and learning about and participating in project activities. The report, From …