The next meeting of the Community Food Social Enterprise Network is being held on Tuesday 24 April at 3 pm in the Crescent Kitchen, Broomhouse Centre, Edinburgh. The meeting will include a tour of Crescent Kitchen and an input from Angie Foreman from Wooden Spoon Catering in Dundee, who will talk about balancing social impact …
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Case Studies
CORE (Community Organisation for Race Equality) has developed a case study on their World Cafe. It covers the background and history of the World Cafe, the essential elements of the model, the role of volunteers, the development of healthy recipes and how the cafe works to build links between individuals and communities. It is an …
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Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Minority ethnic communities
National Parenting Strategy
The Scottish Government would welcome the views of early years workers as it develops the National Parenting Strategy. The strategy will be wide ranging, focusing on parents of children of all ages, as well as parents-to-be and is aimed at all parents and carers. The strategy aims to make a practical difference to parents, helping …
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NHS Health Scotland Healthy Living publications update
The NHS Health Scotland suite of Healthy Living public facing resources will be updated in 2012-13 and support is needed to guide the development of these national publications. These publications relate to Child Healthy Weight, Food & Health and Physical Activity & Healthy Weight in Scotland, across all age stages. By supporting the update, you …
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Community Food Social Enterprise Network meeting
The next Community Food Social Enterprise Network meeting is being held on Wednesday 21st March, 3pm at the Crescent Cafe in the Broomhouse Centre, Edinburgh. There will be a tour of the Broomhouse Centre and speaker (to be confirmed). If you would like to attend, or for more details about the meeting or the Network, …
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Maternal and infant nutrition
CFHS commissioned Rock Solid Social Research Ltd in partnership with Communicable Health to carry out research into how community food and health and voluntary organisations are carrying out activities that support the main priorities of the Scottish Government’s ‘Improving Maternal and Infant Nutrition: A Framework for Action’. The research completed by Rock Solid Social Research is …
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Areas of Work: Families with children, Research and evaluation
Linking community growers, retailers and caterers
Edinburgh Community Food (ECF) was funded by CFHS to follow up the research [PDF, 1292kb] carried out by Blake Stevenson last year, which looked at the feasibility of developing a produce supply chain between community growers and community food retailers and caterers in Edinburgh. ECF is identifying if there is a business case for setting up a supply …
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Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
More Village SOS funding
The Big Lottery Fund has announced a second round of Village SOS funding totalling £4 million, which will open on 10 April. Grants of between £10,000 and £50,000 are available to help communities develop plans for enterprising community projects that will answer a local need or improve services for local people, such as a community-run …