Upcoming Events
March 2016
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 become an impossible risk.
Find out more »Growing Well Together: Sharing best practice and collaboration between Community Gardens and the NHS
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.
Find out more »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.
Find out more »Trellis 10th annual conference, with workshops, stalls, networking and showcasing therapeutic gardening in Scotland and abroad.
Find out more »September 2016
Seminars are held on an annual basis to discuss and publicise current public health related developments and research projects.
Find out more »October 2016
November 2016
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.
Find out more »March 2017
CHEX annual event, bringing people working for community led health in Scotland together to talk, learn and share.
Find out more »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 Action Plan on Human Rights, for an event that builds on the First Minister’s commitment to ‘do even more even better on incorporating human rights …
Find out more »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 and can be shared in a number of ways.
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