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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The Missing Ingredients
On Thursday 25 June, CFHS co-hosted this event in Edinburgh, looking at what we are learning and what we need to do about food, health and homelessness in Scotland. 70 people attended from a wide range of organisations working with people affected by homeless, Local Authorities, Health Boards, Scottish Government and the Care Commission. A …
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Issue 4 of Engage
Issue 4 of Engage, the magazine for the Meeting the Shared Challenge support programme, is now available from the NHS Health Scotland website. This edition focuses on evidence and evaluation.
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National Food and Drink Policy for Scotland
Richard Lochhead, Rural Affairs and Environment Secretary, unveiled ‘Recipe for Success’ – setting out the next steps for the national food and drink policy – this morning at the Royal Highland Show. It sets out steps to bring together key issues of health and environmental sustainability with business and community needs, and stresses the importance …
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CFHS launches two new publications
Food, training and learning disability highlights work in Scotland to improve food and health for people with learning disabilities. The report focuses on a training project for support workers but also includes case studies from groups that regularly deliver cooking skills and healthy eating activities with people with learning disabilities. The Missing Ingredients is based …
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New food co-ops toolkit
Sustain: the Alliance for Food and Farming has produced a new food co-ops toolkit to help communities set up their own food co-ops and buying groups. The toolkit aims to provide an overview of the important things you need to think about when setting up and running a food co-op. The toolkit is only available …
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Issue 3 of Engage now available
Issue 3 of Engage, the magazine for the Meeting the Shared Challenge support programme, is now available from the NHS Health Scotland website www.healthscotland.com/uploads/documents/9519-HSC0023%20Engage3_WEB.PDF
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Issue 2 of Engage now available
Issue Two of Engage (PDF, 624 kb), the magazine for the Meeting the Shared Challenge support programme, is now available from the Health Scotland website The magazine highlights the work of this national capacity building programme for community-led health improvement.
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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.