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Community food and local food partnerships

In this blog post we show how the community food sector is playing a role in the development of Sustainable Food Places (SFP) in Scotland and how SFP aims can contribute to plans for Scotland to become a Good Food Nation. The community food sector can play a key role in local collaborative work, and …

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CFHS e-bulletin June 2023

Our latest e-bulletin has information on cash-first approaches to food insecurity, and features the Scottish Government Towards Ending the Need for Food Banks plan, as well as news, reports, latest events and funding. You can access the e-bulletin here.

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Cash-first: Towards Ending the Need for Food Banks in Scotland: plan

A commitment to a ‘cash-first’ approach to tackling food insecurity is at the heart of a new Scottish Government plan to reduce the need for people to turn to food banks. The plan sets out nine actions which will be taken over the next three years to improve responses to food insecurity. The role of …

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CFHS e-bulletin May 2023

Our latest e-bulletin has information on community food organisation activities, and news from UK and Scottish Government, new reports and latest events and funding. You can access the e-bulletin here.

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Learning from collaborating with or within the community food sector

We recently provided funding for organisations in three local authority areas to support our pilot learning collaboration project. The aim of this project is to support increased collaboration locally and to make a difference across all three of our Community Food National Reference group’s priority areas of work. These are: supporting ‘cash first’ responses to …

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CFHS e-bulletin April 2023

Our latest e-bulletin has details of our pilot learning collaboration project, as well as news on policy, funding, and forthcoming events and recent reading and podcasts. You can access the e-bulletin here.

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CFHS March e-bulletin

Our latest e-bulletin includes the latest health, poverty and diet reports, what community food initiatives are doing as well as events, recordings and funding. The e-bulletin is available here. 

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CFHS February e-bulletin

Our latest e-bulletin provides an update on how community organisations are adapting their cooking activities to the rise in energy costs, as well as the latest reports, webinars and recordings. You can read our February e-bulletin here.

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CFHS January e-bulletin

Our latest e-bulletin provides information about what’s happening in the community food sector as well the latest events, webinars, reports and recordings. The CFHS e-bulletin is available here.

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CFHS webinar: cash-first approaches to food insecurity

Update 30 November 2022 – webinar recording available What can community food initiatives do to prevent food insecurity and promote cash-first responses? In the last few years, many community food initiatives and food aid organisations have tried to get beyond providing food aid by redirecting people to services that provide income maximisation support such as …

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