Comic Relief has announced that its Older People Programme will open for applications on the 16th January 2012. The programme will be aimed at supporting older people (65+) to build their knowledge and skills to manage their money more effectively, ensure access to good, independent financial advice, guard against financial scams and abuse and cope …
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Mental Health Strategy for Scotland consultation document
The Scottish Government has issued a consultation document on the Mental Health Strategy for Scotland 2011-2015. Responses are invited by 31 January 2012 and we would encourage groups working on food and mental health to make a response. The document outlines 14 high level outcomes across mental health improvement work, mental illness prevention work and …
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A call for community food initiatives
With the assistance of the Scottish Community Development Centre, CFHS is looking for your experience of local outcomes. Following the very positive response to last January’s ‘Celebrating Outcomes’ report, looking at national outcomes, CFHS has commissioned the Scottish Community Development Centre to work with them putting together a report on the ways in which local …
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Glasgow University marketing students
Marketing students from Glasgow University Business School are keen to work with small social enterprise organisations. Groups of three Honours level and post-graduate marketing students would carry out specific activities for individual organisations. Potential activities might include: looking at a marketing strategy to influence decision makers, funding bodies etc., marketing of services and positioning your …
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Fare Futures – CFHS annual networking conference
Thanks to everyone who sent in a booking form for our annual conference in November. We are now fully booked and looking forward to a busy and productive day. Confirmation of places and programme information will be sent out to delegates at the beginning of next week.
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Healthier Scotland cooking bus
Focus on Food, who run the Healthier Scotland Cooking Bus on behalf of the Scottish Government, are still keen to hear from community groups who feel they could take advantage of this incredible resource. ‘Well worth the effort’ has been the common response from communities who have been successful in applying for a visit from …
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Strengthening food work across minority ethnic communities
Notes from two meetings held with organisations in Edinburgh (24 August) and Glasgow (25 August) to look at what is needed to further support food work across minority ethnic communities in Scotland are now available to download from the Publications Library. Please contact Sue if you have any queries or anything you would want to …
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The Commonwealth Games – involving communities
As part of the Commonwealth Games Legacy Programme, from September 2011 the Scottish Government has commissioned the Scottish Community Development Centre to work with community organisations across Scotland to support them to use the Games as a catalyst for building on their work to develop activities and projects that involve local people, increase local community …
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Opportunities to record your experience of influencing policy
Community Food and Health (Scotland) has long believed that the experience and knowledge of community food initiatives should be utilised by planners and policy makers. Two opportunities to record your experience of influencing policy have just been launched. Community Health Exchange (CHEX) is gathering information about how community-led health organisations influence decisions, both locally and …
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New South Asian Nutrition resources available
NDR-UK has recently introduced South Asian Nutrition’s (SAN) resources. Dedicated to providing easily accessible, evidence-based nutritional information, the SAN range gives practical culturally sensitive dietary advice for South Asian populations. The range of 13 different titles is available in English, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil and Urdu language versions, and includes topics such as healthy …