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.
