Report and evaluation from two events giving community food projects the opportunity to find out more about becoming social enterprises.
Topic: social enterprise
Getting Down to Business
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Business and project development
Keyword: social enterprise
Area of Work: Social enterprise
Back in Touch
A report of the annual networking conference held on 11 October 2007 at Murrayfield Conference Centre, Edinburgh
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Conferences and networking
Related topics: children, conference, discussion, independent living skills, parents and carers, policy, social enterprise
Area of Work: Networking and learning development
Banking services for social enterprise
Information about the services and key contacts that the main Scottish banks offer to projects using social enterprise approaches.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Business and project development
Keyword: social enterprise
Area of Work: Social enterprise
Scottish Executive’s work with the Scottish Grocers Federation on neighbourhood shops
Notes from a roundtable discussion 17 November 2006.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: choice, local, low income, Scottish Government, shops, social enterprise
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Networking and learning development
Fare Choice Issue 38
Name change; national policy; Scottish Diet Action Plan Review; SCOFF research article; Leithland Food Festival; Fruits and Roots; Strathmore and the Glens; Bridges conference; PA training; diary
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: children, growing and gardening, homelessness, participatory appraisal, policy, practice, Scottish Diet Action Plan, social enterprise, supermarkets
Area of Work: Information provision
Minding Their Own Business
Guide to encourage those working at community level to explore the potential of new ways of working and to enable those who want to follow the social enterprise route to get all the assistance they require. Considers potential pitfalls and constraints and gives advice and information
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Business and project development
Related topics: business, co-operative, social enterprise
Area of Work: Social enterprise
Minding Their Own Business launch summary
Minding Their Own Business is an introductory guide to business and social enterprise produced by SCDP for community food initiatives. This is a brief report of a seminar on social enterprise and community food initiatives at which the publication was launched.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Business and project development
Related topics: business, co-operative, social enterprise
Areas of Work: Networking and learning development, Social enterprise
Discussion on Community Retailing
Notes from a round table discussion to explore the issues around taking a more business-like approach when developing or setting up community shops or community food initiatives.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Business and project development, Retailing and catering
Related topics: business, co-operative, community retailing, food co-op, Islands, remote, rural, social enterprise
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Networking and learning development
Fare Choice Issue 35
Good Food in Tackling Homelessness; SCOFF nutrition research; Question Time; Healthy Valleys; Harvest for Health; Hidden Gardens.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: catering, diet and nutrition, food poverty, grants, health workers, homelessness, hospitals, older people, parliaments, policy, Scottish Diet Action Plan, social enterprise
Area of Work: Information provision
Study tours September 2008
In September 2008 we ran two tours to organisations in Aberdeen and Edinburgh delivering services for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and operating as social enterprise.