Upcoming Events
October 2014
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, who is it; if not, what are the barriers/challenges in getting them involved?; are there capacity issues for both communities & local partnerships, that can …
Find out more »November 2014
Faculty of Public Health in Scotland annual conference
Find out more »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.
Find out more »February 2015
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.
Find out more »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.
Find out more »The Gathering is Scotland’s largest conference and exhibition for charities, social enterprises and voluntary organisations.
Find out more »March 2015
A day full of training workshops, fellow gardeners presenting their projects, photos and crafts exhibition and a garden tour.
Find out more »April 2015
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 applications of these interventions, and the policy context in which interventions are carried out.
Find out more »May 2015
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, social enterprise and health research agenda, and the development of sector-informed research projects. This event is intended for social enterprises interested in food and a …
Find out more »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 with ideas for how you could contribute. Support is available for the attendance of local or unfunded groups.
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