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Communities Channel Scotland – one year on

Communities Channel Scotland, a website providing support to local groups and organisations to grow and connect with each other, has been up and running for a year since its launch in June 2014.  In its first year, the Communities Channel  has: profiled 71 community groups (and counting) from all around Scotland as ‘Spotlights’ and in …

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New films show power of human rights to improve people’s health and care

The Scottish Human Rights Commission, the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland and NHS Health Scotland have joined forces to launch a series of short films highlighting the power of human rights to improve people’s health and the care and support they access. The films are part of a new website that brings together materials …

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Food poverty Declaration

The Sustainable Food Cities Network is asking cities, organisations and individuals to sign up to their Food Poverty Declaration as part of the Network’s focus on getting Beyond the Food Bank. https://www.sustainablefoodplaces.org  

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Eat Better Feel Better Campaign

Public Health Minister, Maureen Watt, was in Edinburgh today to launch the Eat Better Feel Better campaign at Pilton Community Health Project – the first community health project in Scotland – which supports local people to eat more healthily through cooking skills, budgeting and meal planning. Eat Better Feel Better will be working alongside supermarkets …

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Eat Better Feel Better

The Scottish Government’s Eat Better Feel Better campaign is due to launch in January 2015 to inspire and support parents and families to make healthy changes to how they shop, cook and eat, with the aim of improving their health. The Eat Better Feel Better team will introduce the campaign at the CFHS annual networking …

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Mealmakers launches

Just 10 months after our study tour to London, Mealmakers, based on one of the initiatives we met, the Casserole Club, launched in Scotland on 4 August.  After months of hard work, Food Train proudly launched this new neighbourhood meal sharing project that uses an online platform to connect volunteers of any age who have …

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Social Enterprise Networks website

This new website from Senscot provides news updates from the Social Enterprise Networks and features useful case studies on the work of social enterprise in Scotland. The recently added Changing Local Food Economies: Community Food Case Studies may be of particular interest.

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Out to lunch campaign

The Soil Association and Organix have recently launched their Out to Lunch campaign and are keen to involve parents in their attempt to improve the food and service offered to children and families when they eat out.

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Our growing community

Greenspace Scotland has produced an online ‘Our Growing Community‘ pack, to help Scottish communities explore new places and more ways to grow their own food.    

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International School Meals Day – Friday 8 March 2013

International School Meals Day is a collaborative project that began between the USA and Scotland and is aimed at raising the profile/value/importance of school meals.  Various supporting organisations will be undertaking activities in support of the day including Scottish and AmericanSchools, Local authorities, APSE, ASSIST, Food for Life, BBC world class, Mary’s Meals, Global Child …

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