In 2012, Community Food and Health (Scotland) provided funding totalling £15,000 for six community food initiatives to build on their current work with one or more of the Scottish Government food and health programmes. This factsheet provides an overview of the work undertaken by the initiatives.
Funding
The contribution of community food initiatives to national food and health programmes
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Business and project development
Related topics: community food activity, evaluation, funding, grants
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Cookery skills, Food and nutrition training, Food poverty and access, Funding
Evaluating impact programme
The CFHS evaluating impact programme is open to community food organisations working in low-income communities who work with older people to eat well, or within communities to address long-term issues of food poverty. The aim of the programme is to increase the amount of evidence on the difference made by community food initiatives (CFIs) in …
Posted in CFHS updates, Funding news, News
Area of Work: Funding
Investing in the availability of the new REHIS Elementary Cooking Skills course
CFHS has recently provided funding for 13 groups and agencies to run the new, nationally accredited cooking skills course (accredited by the Royal Environmental Health Insitute of Scotland or REHIS). Successful applicants plan to run this new course with a range of peole from within low-income communities in Scotland, including with community and lunch club volunteers, carers of …
Posted in CFHS updates
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Funding
New funding opportunities from CFHS
CFHS is providing support for a new, nationally accredited cooking skills course by offering funding of up to £750 to groups and agencies towards the costs of delivering this new course. CFHS is also inviting community food retailers that have taken part in a Scottish Grocers Federation Healthy Living Programme training session to apply for up …
Posted in CFHS updates, Funding news, News
Area of Work: Funding
Development funding for work on maternal and infant nutrition across minority ethnic communities in Scotland
CFHS has a small amount of development funding available to support the development of good practice examples of work on maternal and infant nutrition across minority ethnic communities in Scotland. If you are already working on maternal and infant nutrition with minority ethnic communities and are looking to further develop your work, or want to …
Posted in CFHS updates
Areas of Work: Families with children, Funding, Minority ethnic communities
A rich picture
Participants from the Building Evidence of Impact programme met in Edinburgh on 4 July 2013 to share learning from their ongoing work on self-evaluation. Group members described the work they had been doing and the different tools and techniques used. They also looked at what they need to help them fly as they take their …
Posted in CFHS updates
Areas of Work: Funding, Mental health and wellbeing, Research and evaluation
Local food micro funding
CFHS fact sheet that summarises the feedback obtained from six community food initiatives funded by CFHS to buy and sell or use more locally-grown fruit and vegetables.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Funding
Investing in the legacy of national initiatives
In late 2012 and early 2013 CFHS awarded funding to 14 community food initiatives that applied to build on their investment with one or more of the following three Scottish Government funded national initiatives. 1. The healthyliving award is a national award working with the catering sector, including community cafes and lunch clubs, in Scotland …
Posted in CFHS updates
Area of Work: Funding
Impact of ‘winter promotion’ funding, 2013
CFHS fact sheet that summarises the feedback obtained from community food retailers funded by CFHS to run promotional activities in winter 2013.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Related topics: community food activity, community retailing, food co-op, funding
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Funding
Emergency Food Fund – Joining Up Local Responses
Food aid organisations are now able to apply for funding through the Scottish Government £500,000 Emergency Food Fund (EFF). EFF will support projects which respond to immediate demands for emergency food aid and help to address the underlying causes of food poverty. Applications are invited for larger grants, up to four of which will be …