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Implementing Together the Community-Led Task Group Recommendations and Food and Tackling Homelessness Seminar report

Two new publications are available to download from the Policy and Planning section of the Publications Library. The briefing paper Implementing Together the Community-Led Task Group Recommendations was written for participants of the CFHS annual networking conference held on 11 October 2007. It was jointly prepared by Community Health Exchange (CHEX), Health Scotland and the …

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Collective activity scoping study report available

A scoping study commissioned by CFHS looking at the potential for greater collective activity amongst a number of key community food initiatives in east-central Scotland is now available to download from the Policy and Planning section of the Publications Library. As well as continuing to work with the food co-op networks involved in the study, …

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A Taste for Independence

‘A Taste for Independence’ is now available to download from the Business and Project Development section of the Publications Library. This guide discusses the experiences of 21 organisations throughout Scotland who work with a range of vulnerable groups, including people with learning disabilities, young carers and people experiencing homelessness. All these groups used food activities …

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Issue 41 of Fare Choice now available

Edition 41 of Fare Choice, our quarterly newsletter, is now available to download from the Our Newsletters section of the Publications Library. Also new in the Publications Library are the notes from our roundtable discussion on 0-5 Children and Parents, including infant nutrition.

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Issue 41 of Fare Choice and Issue 4 of Food Matters now available

Issue 40 of our quarterly newsletter Fare Choice and Issue 4 of Food Matters, our update on developments in food, health and homelessness in Scotland, are now available to download from the Our Newsletters section of the Publications Library.

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Fruitful Participation: involving people in food and health work

Fruitful Participation: involving people in food and health work is a new publication from Community Food and Health (Scotland) which gives a snapshot of how getting people involved in decision-making around food and health issues can be enjoyable, democratic, empower those involved and make a difference. The publication discusses approaches and methods that are effective …

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Briefing sheet on banks services to social enterprises

CFHS has put together a briefing sheet giving information about the services and key contacts that the main Scottish banks offer to projects using social enterprise approaches. It was produced because people working in community food initiatives using a social enterprise approach said they were finding it difficult to find local banking services that met …

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Fare Choice Issue 39 now available

The latest edition of our (redesigned) quarterly newsletter, Fare Choice, is now available to download from the Publications Library.

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Baseline study of food, health and homelessness projects, programmes and initiatives

In September 2006, the food, health and homeless initiative at Community Food and Health (Scotland) commissioned Blake Stevenson to undertake a baseline study of food, health and homelessness projects, programmes and initiatives in Scotland. The report of this study is now available to download from the Policy and Planning section of the Publications Library. For …

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Notes on CFHS work with local retailers on healthyliving programme

Notes from the roundtable discussion on our work with local retailers with regard to the Scottish Grocer’s Federation HealthyLiving programme is now available to download from the Catering and Retailing section of the Publications Library or contact Alice or Rita to receive a hard copy.

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