Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment Richard Lochhead MSP will be the key speaker at a conference organised by Community Food Initiatives North East (CFINE) in London on 22 November. With assistance from the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and Community Food Enterprise from Newham, east London, CFINE is inviting people to learn more about …
This networking event is for anyone interested in/involved with therapeutic or community gardens, or green spaces used to improve health, well-being or for community benefit and includes an opportunity to visit The Concrete Garden, to network and share good practice with a variety of gardening projects in and around the Glasgow area.
Emma Burnett (Federation for City Farms and Community Gardens & Trellis) and Mark Vrionides (Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust) will be holding a Gardening Networking Event, to be hosted by the brand new Edinburgh College Community Garden at the Milton Road Campus. The focus of the event will be community gardening and it is open …
Trellis training event
The next NHS Health Scotland Maternal and Infant Nutrition Conference. The broad theme within this is the use of asset-based approaches to improving maternal and infant nutrition.
Hosted by the Joint Improvement Team (JIT) and the Scottish Co-production Network this event will bring together both practitioner, user and community perspectives on achieving positive outcomes for Scotland's individuals and communities. A full programme and further information will be available soon at www.coproductionscotland.org.uk
Trellis training event
2nd annual Children's Food Conference from the Children's Food Trust
Trellis 7th annual conference
Community Capacity: Why does it matter? When is it needed? How can it be built?
The REHIS Annual Conference is the principal Environmental Health event to take place in Scotland. It provides an opportunity for participants to reflect on current and future approaches to protecting and improving the health of the Scottish people and to renew friendships and make new ones.
McCarrison Society for Nutrition and Health Public Meeting
The day is open to anyone interested and/or active with community or therapeutic gardening projects in Midlothian and East Lothian. Free event but bring your own lunch or support the Penicuik Arts Centre community cafe.
Edinburgh Community Cafes is planning a community cafe conference for Scotland. The conference will cover many topics relevant to community cafes throughout the country, including training placements, procurement, events and publicity and staff training.
This day is for everyone who is interested in and/or active with community growing in Highland Region.
Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens Networking Event
Trellis training event. Suitable for anyone who wants to extend their knowledge in order to encourage those with dementia to garden.
From GCVS, with support from the Scottish Government. What your organisation must know about public sector equality duties. With featured speaker Yvonne Strachan, Head of the Scottish Government Equality, Human Rights and Third Sector Division.
The purpose of this event is to share the findings of NHS Health Scotland’s commissioned evaluation “The reactions and experiences of children and their families to the Child Healthy Weight Programme”. As this evaluation focused on four case study areas, these findings will be validated to ensure the report is reflective of the experience nationally. …
Nourish Scotland 2013 Conference: What would it take for everyone in Scotland to eat well and sustainably?
Edinburgh Community Food and Community Food and Health (Scotland) will both be presenting at this forthcoming Holyrood conference. Community groups and voluntary organisations can use a discount code (SFS13) to get a 40% reduction on the lower rate delegate fee.
We are in the early stages of planning this year's event. More information will be available here soon.
Conference themes and questions include: The Children and Young People’s Bill: towards implementation Engaging and answering to children and young people Universal services: maintaining a safety net in times of austerity The joined up approach to tackling inequality Doing what works: evidence based policy and practice, measuring and learning from the right outcomes Service integration …
A skill share and networking day for local campaign groups in Scotland.
This event, organised by CFHS, the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens and the Food and Health Alliance will give community growers, community retailers and Food and Health Alliance members an opportunity to find out more about each other and the work that they do and explore possibilities of working more closely together. To book …
CDAS and SCDC are jointly organising an event on 12th December in Edinburgh around the Scottish Government's draft Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill.
By popular demand, the Soil Association is hosting this organic Burns Supper, using the best Scottish local and seasonal produce, with journalist Alex Renton, and the newly appointed Chair of Soil Association Council, Denis Overton.
An event brought to you in partnership by NHS Health Scotland, Community Food and Health Scotland, CHEX and Voluntary Health Scotland. We would like to encourage people to attend from community and voluntary sector organisations, Health Boards and other public services. This free half-day conference offers the opportunity to examine collaborative approaches for preventing and …
NHS Scotland in partnership with Age Scotland, Mental Health Foundation, the Alliance, Carers Scotland, and Carers Trust Scotland are jointly hosting this event. The event is free but places are limited.
A CFHS national learning exchange on food, mental health and wellbeing Plans are underway for this national learning exchange on community food work and how it can support mental health and wellbeing. It will be an opportunity catch up on progress since our last event, Mind the Menu in 2012, specifically work on self- evaluation …
The Trellis Annual Networking Conference provides:- professional input from delegates, workshop presenters and keynote speakers- networking opportunities - with over 100 delegates attending annually its easy to find many like- minded professionals and new perspectives- project showcases, an opportunity to 'show of' your project- training workshops, topics ranging from horticulture to therapeutic gardening and more...- opportunities to survey opinion …
This event is aimed at those with an interest in supporting improvement in children and young people's mental health and reducing inequalities which impact on their mental health.The event will combine presentations with workshops, leading to opportunities for discussion and debate.
The first Sustainable Food Cities conference , hosted by the Brighton and Hove Food Partnership and Food Matters, will look at how to embed food work in a city for the long term.
Glasgow Centre for Population Health seminar series lecture featuring Prof Kevin Morgan, Dean of Engagement, Professor of Governance and Development, School of Planning and Geography at the University of Cardiff.
The conference will aim to encourage communities to take action to address the health inequality issues that are important to them. With an emphasis on discussion and information exchange, organisations involved in community-led health initiatives will be warmly invited to attend and share ideas, good practice and inspirations.
Children in Scotland annual conference focusing on food provision in schools over the next decade.
The ALLIANCE and partners, The Joint Improvement Team and NHS Health Scotland, invite you to join their 2014 Annual Conference: Scotland - Small country, big ideas - imagining our future .. The event is aimed at all those with an interest in shaping Scotland’s health and social care, including: people who access support/services, unpaid carers, third sector, …
Half day training course, of interest to all staff and managers caring for the elderly who are involved in the preparation and provision of food.
An event for professionals involved in the preparation and provision of food.
Free event co-hosted by TCV, FCFCG and the Glasgow Local Food Network. This event will highlight a range of the different ways this can be done by running workshops, show casing and sharing the stories of examples of good practice.
A seminar and discussion hosted by the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy (SCPHRP) Working Groups, University of Edinburgh
Joint event from Scottish Natural Heritage, NHS Health Scotland, and the Forestry Commission on building stronger partnerships between health and social care and the third sector.
Children in Scotland training seminar.
A CFHS opportunity for people to network and to share information, learning and news around Healthy Start issues. The event will have a focus on community activity in relation to Healthy Start and maternal and infant nutrition.
Children in Scotland training seminar.
This free seminar will explain the growing and harvesting of fruit and vegetables in public spaces for community benefit. EATS (Edible and Tasty Spaces) is a project managed by Fife Council,Leisure & Cultural Services
Joint event with the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens, Royal Highland Educational Trust and Care Farming Scotland.
Organised by the International Association of Community Development (IACD), the University of Glasgow and the Community Learning and Development (CLD) Standards Council for Scotland. Community is the answer will showcase community-based solutions from Scotland and around the world. It will allow community members, activists, practitioners, researchers and policymakers to come together and examine what actually matters …
Holyrood's conference will discuss efforts to making a lasting health improvement in our communities. The event will specifically focus on initiatives acros Scotland's public sector that strive to encourage people to adopt a more active lifestyle and a healthier diet.
The event will include opportunities to: - find out about Edinburgh Community Cafes network and how it benefits cafe members - find out about the healthyliving award and its benefits - meet other community cafes. This free event is open to anyone working in, managing, or supporting a community cafe.
Our conference will be an opportunity for people to come together, learn from each other and share experience, evidence, hopes and concerns on all aspects of food, inequality and social justice. A full programme will become available when registration opens in late August/early September 2014.
This one-day networking and learning event organised by members of the Adult Life/Working Age Working Group at the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy aims to help bring academic researchers and community projects together to discuss methods and experiences of improving health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities in Scotland.
Nourish Scotland is holding this series of free consultation events across Scotland, beginning in Edinburgh, to share ideas about, debate and influence the Scottish Government’s proposals to improve how food works in Scotland.
Ghe discussion document, Becoming a Good Food Nation, was launched in June and the consultation is open until the 17 October 2014. This free workshop will provide participants with an opportunity to reflect on the document, hear different points of view from people across the food chain and to inform and inspire their response to the consultation. A reflection document …
An event highlighting tried and tested tools and techniques to bring food activity to community settings. This event is aimed at people working in or with the community sector who want to develop ideas and skills to help integrate food into their projects. The Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens working in partnership with …
PHINS seminars are held on an annual basis to discuss and publicise current information and research projects.
Nourish Scotland two-day event that brings together farmers from across the Commonwealth to look at shared approach to food
Working jointly with Scottish Community Development Centre (SCDC), Scotland's Towns Partnership is delivering a scoping exercise to unpick a number of issues such as: what role do local partnerships see communities playing in local town partnerships; what kind of "communities" are town/town centre partnerships serving; are communities already involved in some partnerships - if so, …
Faculty of Public Health in Scotland annual conference
An open event calling people together from across Scotland who are passionate about orchard trees, their fruit (and nuts) and strengthening the culture, knowledge and skills of keeping them. A collaborative event hosted by Fife Diet, Orchard Research and Enterprise, and Forth Environment link.
Holyrood magazine’s 2015 Older People’s conference recognises the positive contribution older people make to Scotland. It will focus on how older people can be empowered and provided with the choice and opportunity to engage with Scotland’s communities in their own terms.
This seminar will bring together academics, policy-makers and civil society organizations to discuss and examine the multiple socio-economic, environmental and health-related dimensions of food and nutrition.
The Gathering is Scotland’s largest conference and exhibition for charities, social enterprises and voluntary organisations.
A day full of training workshops, fellow gardeners presenting their projects, photos and crafts exhibition and a garden tour.
The Scottish Colloquium on Food and Feeding with the British Sociological Society Food Group are hosting this mini-symposium at the University of Glasgow. The event includes three presentations from leading academics in the area of dietary change (Professor Annie Anderson, Professor Laurence Moore and Dr Sharon Simpson. They will discuss theory-based intervention design, real world …
The aim of this event is to bring key stakeholder groups such as the numerous community social enterprises working together to improve diet and health outcomes within disadvantaged communities. The event will consider the barriers to a healthy diet, and social enterprise approaches to reducing these barriers. Expected outcomes will be: shared learning, a good, …
This free conference will be brimming over with activities, work sessions, training opportunities, discussions and debates, with the aim of bringing together all we know about co-production in Scotland. The organisers are particularly keen for the conference to hear from groups of people with lived experience of co-production, and invite you to get in touch …
Evaluation Support Scotland is 10 years old in May 2015. This event will reflect on evaluation practice over the last 10 years and look at evaluation support in the future.
The theme of the 2015 Conference is ‘The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014’ (C&YP Act) with a sub theme of working in collaboration to accelerate existing work and progress action in delivery. The programme will have a strong emphasis on third sector partnerships. The programme includes plenary presentations from NHS Health Scotland, Scottish …
CHEX National Conference 2015.
Anyone managing, working in or supporting a community café is welcome to apply for a place. We are also looking to facilitate community café learning visits – if you would like to participate or showcase your café please let us know.
This Holyrood event will bring together experts in nutrition, healthcare, education, transport and industry to review the progress on implementing the Prevention of Obesity Route Map and to consider what more can and needs to be done to create a less obesogenic environment for children in Scotland.
This year's theme is Leading Integration for Quality.
Scottish Government event that includes looking at how the Nursery Milk and the Healthy Start welfare food schemes can be improved.
Voluntary Health Scotland (VHS) is running this free half day seminar in partnership with GCVS. VHS launched its ‘Living in the Gap: a voluntary health sector perspective on health inequalities in Scotland’ earlier this year. This seminar will discuss the report findings and the wider issues of health inequalities in Scotland. It will also discuss …
A one-day conference on recent research about how migration and ethnic background can affect health. An NHS Health Scotland event .in conjunction with 1599.
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Key experts and experienced practitioners will share knowledge updates, current information, good practice and practical advice, to best support individuals with learning disabilities to eat healthily, maintain a healthy weight and be more active.
The Poverty Alliance - Scotland - Working together to combat poverty There are four aims for the week: to bring to public attention the reality of poverty in Scotland; to the show the impact of poverty on individuals and communities and to address the sterotypes that exist about poverty; to highlight what is being done …
Registration is now open for our annual networking conference to be held at Perth Concert Hall on 28 October 2015. A one-day event where people can learn and discuss national activity and local practice with people from all over Scotland. An opportunity for people to come together, learn from each other and share experience, evidence, hopes …
This event will examine and discuss how we can work together across the sector to help shape the best possible future for all children, young people and their families in Scotland. In partnership with Social Work Scotland and Glasgow City Council.
Voluntary Health Scotland annual conference and AGM.
Medica CPD half-day training course.
The Poverty Alliance is hosting a national conference in Glasgow on 10th December 2015. The aim of the event is to reflect on the learning and discussion from regional events over the year, and also to bring together and hear from others who have been involved in developing responses to food poverty and the growth …
This course aims to help you turn your community development ideas into effective funding applications. It will introduce beginners to the basics of fundraising and help those who are more experienced with further advise, support and inspiration.
The Gathering is a free annual event organised by the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO). It’s a place for people from the third sector to network, showcase their work and learn from each other.
An interactive event to celebrate the achievements of the Alliance's People Powered Health and Wellbeing programme and to demonstrate how everyone has the power to create the conditions for change.
The conference will explore the challenge of meeting the needs of Scotland's older people and delivering greater consistency and equality across Scotland. It will discuss the long-term preventative approach to good health for older people in parallel with delivering immediate care needs in order to ensure that meeting future health and care demand does not …
This Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens event aims to highlight and share good practice of community gardens and NHS collaboration and partnership working.
This one-day Children in Scotland conference is a unique and import cross-sector event bringing together professionals from the public and private sectors, schools, health and business. The event is supported and partially funded by the Scottish Government.
Trellis 10th annual conference, with workshops, stalls, networking and showcasing therapeutic gardening in Scotland and abroad.
Seminars are held on an annual basis to discuss and publicise current public health related developments and research projects.
The conference will consider compelling evidence about the impact of social isolation and loneliness on mental and physical health and the part the third sector plays in preventing and addressing this.
CHEX annual event, bringing people working for community led health in Scotland together to talk, learn and share.
Declaration – now in its second year - is programmed by the Mental Health Foundation, (creators of the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival), with the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE), NHS Health Scotland, NHS Lothian, and the University of Strathclyde. These organisations have joined forces as part of Scotland’s National …
Children and young people (supported by their teachers or other adults) are being encouraged to share ‘stories’ about their culture, heritage and associated food. This could be family food traditions, food that is loved (or not) in their country or festivals, ceremonies and celebrations that take place. Photographs, blogs, videos or vines, songs, poems, stories and recipes are all welcome …
Save the date for Change: the Health and Social Care Integration Event
This symposium is of interest to all practising or studying public or global health, infectious disease and respiratory physicians, as well as general physicians and other healthcare workers who want to learn the latest in exotic communicable diseases as well as look upstream at determinants of health.
This conference is being organised by Children in Scotland in response to a major social issue: the role of food - including food poverty - and its links with wellbeing, learning and attainment within the context of GIRFEC. Delegates can expect to hear updates regarding food laws and policy initiatives, as well as finding out …
Two day social enterprise fair from Edinburgh Social Enterprise.
Evaluation Support Scotland workshop for staff and volunteers in third sector organisations who are writing an application for a new project and want to write meaningful outcomes.
Holyrood's School Food and Feeding the Mind event will provide a platform for debate and discussion around the importance and priorities of school food provision and the wider importance of food education.
Join Trellis and the FCFCG at the Ecology Centre, meet others interested in therapeutic and community gardening to share insights, skills and good practice through discussion, networking and garden tour of the Ecology Centre Garden in the beautiful setting of Kinghorn Loch. This event is suitable for anyone wishing to /already supporting people to garden …
As before, this event is free of charge. However, spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Sharing patter Tasty presentations, lots of table talk, and plenty to take away from the popular annual networking event for volunteers, practitioners, planners and academics addressing issues around food, health and inequalities.
Get Real: Real people, real communities, real health
Two new area-wide community cafe networks are being set up, in Scottish Borders and Glasgow. Meetings in both areas are being held in the next few weeks to discuss the next steps. Please contact anne.gibson5@nhs.net if you would like to take part, or would like more info
Two new area-wide community cafe networks are being set up, in Scottish Borders and Glasgow. Meetings in both areas are being held in the next few weeks to discuss the next steps. Please contact anne.gibson5@nhs.net if you would like to take part, or would like more information.
First networking event from A Menu for Change. North Lanarkshire Council has responded to the increasing numbers of people turning to food banks by launching the Food Poverty Referral Gateway to ensure people get their full entitlement to crisis grants from the Scottish Welfare Fund before they turn to food banks for help. This workshop …
CFHS, Senscot and Partnership for Procurement are running two sessions on for community food social enterprises and community retailers. The morning session will discuss issues currently being experienced by Community Food social enterprises and agree future actions/supports in relation to sustainability and growth (funding, collaboration and enterprise ). The afternoon will be a ‘sharing good practice’ session for community …
Celebrate therapeutic gardening and Trellis’ 12th Conference With even more workshops, stalls, networking and showcasing of therapeutic gardening in Scotland.
Come and hear about the evidence of the impact of cooking skills courses, including: Professor Martin Caraher, City, University of London. What evidence do we have of the impact of community cooking skills courses? The results of a CFHS evaluation of 29 community cooking skills courses. Dr Ada Garcia, University of Glasgow. Results from the …
In April 2018, the first-ever national research conference on household food insecurity in the UK will be hosted by Drs Rachel Loopstra and Hannah Lambie-Mumford at King’s College London, bringing together leading researchers and third-sector organisations to share research on this important issue.
The annual Community Development Alliance Scotland Conference. A day to reflect and speculate on the creative potential energy released by the Community Empowerment Act in local communities across Scotland; and space to look ahead at what broader participative democracy horizons might be explored via the Local Governance Review.
Confer with the world’s most important organisations and individuals working on healthcare equity and human rights in relation to ethnic and racial minority health, and the health and health care of recent migrants
Join Nourish Scotland and Voluntary Health Scotland at this event to discuss how the reform of the Scottish Government Healthy Start scheme into Best Start Foods can best benefit low-income families. The organisers are particularly keen to hear from individuals and community groups that have experience of Healthy Start vouchers, (using them as individuals or …
The ALLIANCE’s annual conference provides the leading focal point for health and social care integration in Scotland. The 2018 event will focus on Action and will showcase people and organisations working on innovative, engaging and co-produced projects that aim to improve outcomes for people who access and deliver support and services in Scotland.
Registration is now open for community food gardens and external contributors wanting to take part. The Festival is a weekend event when community food gardens in and around Edinburgh throw their gates open and invite the general public to come and explore, hear their stories, be inspired and entertained.
This event will examine the latest co-production developments and good practice.
This briefing will consider the latest trends, developments and good practice in volunteer management. Early booking discount until 4 May.
Delivered jointly by the Scottish Human Rights Commission, Edinburgh Tenants Federation and the Scottish Community Development Centre, this one-day conference will: Bring people together to share ideas and practice from Scotland and beyond. Explore what skills, tools and resources are required to support this approach. Registration will be available soon. In the meantime, save the date in your diary …
Must attend event for all fundraisers in Scotland. Early bird tickets on sale until 2 July.
This event will examine the future policy actions required to tackle Scotland’s obesity problem, following the conclusion of ‘A Healthier Future – Action, Ambitions on Diet, Activity and Healthy Weight’ consultation, and looking ahead to the imminent Scottish Government strategy.
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This year the conference will be thinking about what health as a fundamental right of every human being means in Scotland today. Deadline for abstract submissions is 1 June. Delegate registration opens in August.
Save the date for this annual event, which has the theme of culture, arts and health. More information available in May.
In June 2018, the Scottish Government launched a consultation into the nutritional requirements for food and drink in schools. This event will examine priorities for the consultation and scrutinise the role of schools in shaping and informing the relationship our children and young people have with food.
World Community Development Conference 2019. Jointly organised by the International Association for Community Development (IACD), the Scottish Government, the Community Learning and Development team at the University of Dundee, Dundee City Council, and Leisure and Culture Dundee, supported by Dundee and Angus Convention Bureau.
Join the CHEX team to explore how community-led health organisations can use human rights in their work improving health, addressing inequalities and making a difference to communities across Scotland. This FREE conference is a chance to meet and share experience with other community-led health organisations, and to discuss what taking a human rights approach means …
Organised every year by SCVO, The Gathering is the largest free third sector event in the UK, a place for all the people working in the sector to network, showcase what they do and learn from each other. With a bustling marketplace with over 100 exhibitors, and a packed programme featuring more than 70 workshops, seminars and …
Share good practice and meet therapeutic gardeners from across the UK.
This full-day conference from Voluntary Health Scotland will explore good practice in volunteering where it is delivered by NHS and third sector working together. The focus will be primarily on volunteering in NHS settings, in particular hospitals.
This event, run in partnership by Children in Scotland and Queen Margaret University, will focus on the latest research, creative approaches and current projects aimed at improving food experiences, and the health and wellbeing of children and their families.
NHS Health Scotland defines food poverty as ‘the inability to acquire or consume an adequate or sufficient quality of food in socially acceptable ways, or the uncertainty that one will be able to do so’. With use of food banks increasing by 13% in the past six months compared to this time last year, the issue …
The 2019 Annual Conference theme from the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland will be Impact: the 3rd Health and Social Care Integration event.
Ahead of a Scottish Government census of the social enterprise sector, due to be carried out in Summer 2019, this Holyrood event will examine key challenges facing social enterprises and provide practical guidance on accessing funding and bidding for contracts.
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This year’s annual Conference will explore the rights to health and what this means, and will be of relevance to VHS members, other third sector organisations involved in health, health and social care partnerships, NHS boards, other public services and universities.
The Scottish Fundraising Conference is an event for all fundraisers working in Scotland, and offers a once-a-year opportunity to share in the latest best practice, insights and successes of your fellow fundraisers.
The first Food – a fact of life food and nutrition education in Scotland conference for primary and secondary teachers.
This year the conference will focus on social justice and within that consider how to maximise prevention to improve health life expectancy across the whole population.
The Gathering 2020 Scotland’s largest event for charities, social enterprises and voluntary organisations, will take place on Wednesday 19th & Thursday 20th February 2020 – it’s free and everyone’s welcome! Book a stand Book to attend
Save the date! More information on this celebration of community-led health to follow.
