The meeting will build on the roundtable discussion we had last December (notes from the meeting are available here) and will provide an opportunity to learn from research, policy and practical work and to discuss issues on implementing good practice with speakers and your colleagues. This is a small meeting (up to 30 people) Speakers …
Events and conferences
Improving food and health for adults with learning disabilities – learning from policy and practice in the community
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Area of Work: Learning disability
Food poverty: Measuring, monitoring and making a difference
Following our recent seminar, “Food poverty: Measuring, monitoring and making a difference”, organised jointly with the Rowett Institute, the key speaker Prof Valerie Tarasuk, from the University of Toronto, has kindly given permission to make her fascinating presentation available for download.
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Area of Work: Food poverty and access
Community cafe learning visit
CFHS’s next community café learning visit is on Tuesday 9 February, 11 am to 2.30 pm, to Wellmeadow Café in Blairgowrie and the Walled Garden Café in Perth. Places are available to anyone involved in running or setting up a community café. Transport will be provided from Blairgowrie to Perth and back, if required and …
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Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Challenge Poverty Week
A host of events taking place as part of Challenge Poverty Week 19-23 October 2015. More information at https://www.challengepoverty.net
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Community cafe learning visits
Following the success of previous visits, CFHS is running further community café learning visits this year. These are open to anyone involved in running or setting up a community café. Participants will have the chance to find out about the cafes hosting the visits, meet other community café practitioners and share and learn about good …
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Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Networking and learning development
CFHS annual networking conference 2015
The CFHS annual networking conference took place at the end of October in Perth. Thank you to those who attended and participated in the day making the day what it was. The conference was an opportunity for people to come together, learn from each other and share experience on all aspects of food, inequality and …
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Area of Work: Networking and learning development
Creating a Fairer Scotland – Planning Events
As part of the Scottish Government’s Creating a Fairer Scotland conversation, a series of local planning events will be taking place to allow a broadly representative audience to hear, discuss, prioritise and take action on ideas to make Scotland a fairer place to live and make a real impact on Scotland’s future. The priorities that …
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CFHS event: community cooking skills activities in Scotland
Around 40 people attended this Community Food and Health (Scotland) half-day event on June 18 in Glasgow. The audience heard from: Avril Blamey, consultant, who carried out research for CFHS in 2014. Conclusions from the research included: There was evidence of consistent good practice by practitioners (community chefs, trainers etc) when planning and running cooking …
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Area of Work: Cookery skills
Community cafe networking event – some pics
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Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Community cafe networking event, June 2015
What was it? The third Scottish-wide networking event for community café practitioners was held in June 2015. It was planned and run jointly by Community Food and Health (Scotland) or CFHS, Edinburgh Community Food (ECF) and members of Edinburgh Community Café Network (ECCN). The event took place in St Andrew and St George’s Church in …