Community Food and Health (Scotland) or CFHS aims to ensure that everyone in Scotland has the opportunity, ability and confidence to access a healthy and acceptable diet for themselves, their families and their communities. We do this by supporting work with and within low-income communities that addresses health inequalities and barriers (availability, affordability, skills and culture) to healthy and affordable food.
Through our work we aim to support communities to identify these barriers; develop local responses to addressing the barriers; and highlight where actions at other levels, or in other sectors, are required.
We value the experience, understanding, skills and knowledge within Scotland’s community food initiatives and their unique contribution to developing and delivering policy and practice at all levels.
CFHS updates
We have developed a new group on the Knowledge Hub platform. This new space aims to bring together community-led food initiatives and supporters to connect and work together. As ever, our focus is on a sector that aims to improve dignified access to, and take up of, nutritious, acceptable, affordable, and sustainable food – especially …
Join us in this webinar where our community food colleagues highlight how they came together to collectively make a difference Community Food National Reference Group members CFINE, Lanarkshire Community Food & Health Partnership. (LCFHP), Glasgow Community Food Network (GCFN) and Edinburgh Community Food, (ECF) worked together to develop an online resource space with access to information on local and national …
Our latest bulletin has news about our upcoming online peer session, and the new Food Insecurity Resource spaces, as well as information about forthcoming events, funding opportunities and reports for the community food sector. You can read the e-bulletin here.
Our latest bulletin has news about our upcoming online peer session as well as information about events, funding and reports for the community food sector. You can read the e-bulletin here.
Building a more resilient community food sector: How does your community food work support Prevention? Wednesday 13 May 2026 1 pm–2 pm Online This session will include: A short introduction to what prevention can look like in community food settings and how it might be evaluated Breakout discussions where you can share your own experiences, challenges, …
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