Covid-19 updates and information

These pages provide up-to-date Covid-19 information relevant to community food initiatives, such as health and safety advice, support and resources, workshops and webinars as well as blog posts and case studies highlighting how initiatives have responded to Covid-19 and their plans going forward after lockdown.

News and updates

#CommunityFoodNearMe
#ShiftThePower Coronavirus Response Fund
A snapshot of Covid-19, food insecurity and community food initiatives: What happened and what can we learn?
Aberdeenshire Council Community Food Fund
CFHS blog – online cooking skills courses: tips and ideas from REHIS
CFHS blog: Food insecurity research conference – learning from across the globe
CFHS blog:Have our eating and cooking habits changed since the Covid 19 lock-down? And how has the Fife Cook Well, Live Well cooking project adapted?
CFHS guest blog: How have community organisations adapted to Covid-19? EATS Rosyth
Charity Survival Fund
Community and Third Sector Recovery Programme
Community food initiatives and the Covid-19 response
Community responses to Covid-19
Coronavirus (Covid-19): supporting people at higher risk
Covid Recovery Strategy
Covid-19 and the next big step towards recovery
Covid-19 funding and beyond
COVID-19 funding update
COVID-19 May e-bulletin
Covid-19 response stories and resources
Covid-19 responses from the community food sector in Fife
COVID-19 Scottish Government SMS shielding service and national helpline
COVID-19: General public health advice, resources and food safety
COVID-19: Guidance for community food organisations
COVID-19: Scottish Government support for community food responses
E-bulletin: 3 April 2020
February Covid-19 e-bulletin
Food Power webinars – support during Covid-19
Free charity fundraising webinars
Fruit and veg stories survey – respondents needed
Global Majority Fund
Guest Blog: Cash First approaches to addressing food insecurity: What is the role of health visitors, midwives and family nurses?
Guest Blog: Cooking skills online – learning from Feeding Fifers
How has Lanarkshire Community Food and Health Partnership supported a ‘cash first’ response to food insecurity?
How have NHS teams supported community food work during the pandemic?
Independent Age Grants Fund
January e-bulletin
July CFHS (Covid-19 and recovery) e-bulletin
Local action in Scotland to tackle food insecurity during the coronavirus crisis
New report from the British Red Cross
New report from the Food Standards Agency
New reports from Public Health Scotland
On-line cooking sessions -Tips and ideas from Edinburgh Community Food and Greener Kirkcaldy
PHINS webinar series
Postcode Recovery Fund
Re-starting cooking skills classes
Ready Scotland
Reflections on a year of Covid
Response, Recovery and Resilience Fund
Shifting the Balance of Community Power
Supporting Communities Safely – updated
Supporting your community to get the Covid-19 vaccine
The Community and Third Sector Recovery Fund is still open
Updates to National Lottery Community Funding in Scotland
Use of shopping vouchers by food banks
Using ‘cash first’ approaches to address food insecurity
Webinar on supporting communities to re-start safely
Webinar: Community development and Covid-19
What’s in a name? – Redistributing surplus food via Food hubs, food banks, social supermarkets, larders, community fridges and pantries….. Does the label matter?
Winter Social Wellbeing Fund (Glasgow)
Winter support fund for children and families

Case studies

How are community organisations adapting to Covid 19? Greener Kirkcaldy
How are community organisations adapting to Covid-19? Moray Food Plus
Covid-19: NHS Highland and the Highland Poverty Action Network- responses and recovery
NHS Lothian and community food networks – adapting to Covid-19 and recovery

External resources

Access to food in emergencies: learning from Covid-19
Coronavirus and food in the community
Food parcel guidance
Glasgow food map
Latest coronavirus (COVID-19) guidance from NHS Scotland and the Scottish Government
Scottish Government guidance for community growing spaces
Scottish Government National Assistance helpline
Social Farms and Gardens advice for community gardens
Social Shifters Scotland
Supporting Communities Safely

News and updates

Case studies

CFHS Blog

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