Issue 6 of Engage, the magazine for the Meeting the Shared Challenge support programme, is now available to download from the Health Scotland website. In this issue Kay Barton from the Scottish Government reflects on the progress of the Meeting the Shared Challenge programme over the last two years. www.healthscotland.com/uploads/documents/11722-EngageIssue6.pdf
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Edition 50 of Fare Choice now available
This month our quarterly newsletter, Fare Choice, reaches its 50th edition and looks back at initiatives featured in the first edition and how they have managed to sustain their activities. Fare Choice is available to download now from the Publications Library.
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New publication: Tackling Health Inequalities in Scotland
Tackling Health Inequalities in Scotland: working with communities – a partnership of Scottish Intermediary bodies, has been produced by Napier University on behalf of Community Food and Health Scotland), Community Health Exchange (CHEX), Voluntary Health Scotland and the UK Public Health Alliance, to highlight the contribution that national intermediary bodies make to the local tackling …
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Senscot launches new publication
Senscot has launched a new publication, Social Enterprise and the Healthy Working Lives Initiative (PDF, 2Mb), which highlights the involvement of five social enterprises in the Healthy Working Lives. Community food and health work features strongly.
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Issue 5 of Engage now available
Issue 5 of Engage, the magazine for the Meeting the Shared Challenge, is now available to download from the Health Scotland website www.healthscotland.com/uploads/documents/11133-EngageIssue5.pdf
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Scottish Grocers Federation Healthy Living programme
A summary of the evaluation of the roll-out of the Scottish Grocers Federation’s ‘Healthy Living’ programme is now available. The summary highlights the key findings from the evaluation and includes a number of recommendations for any future development of this work.
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Going Forth conference
This year’s CFHS annual networking conference, Going Forth, was held at the Carnegie Conference Centre, Dunfermline on Thursday 22 October. This year’s event maintained a strong focus on community initiatives that are developing and sustaining food and health activities that address food access and health inequalities. As always the conference was very well-supported and attended. …
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Minding Their Own Business Too
In 2006 CFHS produced Minding Their Own Business, an introduction to business and social enterprise for organisations supporting local communities tackling inequalities in diet and health. Minding Their Own Business Too is a companion to this toolkit. In response to suggestions from people involved in community food and health work, it focuses on examples of …
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Issue 7 of Engage now available
Issue 7 of ‘Engage’ magazine – the first edition following the completion of the Meeting the Shared Challenge programme – is now available to view and download from www.chex.org.uk This issue marks a continued commitment to community-led approaches beyond Meeting the Shared Challenge, and sets out a new programme of work, which will support local …