Please note that our annual networking conference is now fully booked. Delegates can look forward to tasty presentations, lots of table talk and plenty to take away from our popular annual networking event for volunteers, practitioners, planners and academics addressing issues around food, health and inequalities with Scotland’s communities. With an interesting mix of workshops, …
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CFHS annual networking conference 2017
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Area of Work: Networking and learning development
CFHS community cafe networking event
Booking is now open for ‘Take Five’ our national community café networking event, taking place on 28 September in Edinburgh. Our free event is open to anyone working in or with a community café in Scotland. The day will include lots of networking time, activities and a chance to find out what’s happening in and …
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Empowering our Communities pop-up day, June 26th
Scotland now has ‘Community Empowerment’ legislation, growing co-production and participatory budgeting (or ‘community choices’) movements, and communities who are have shown the difference that community ownership of assets can make for making local places better.However, many of us who are working hard to change things locally can feel cut off from sources of support and …
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CHEX annual conference 1 March 2017 – power, inequality and community-led health
Presentations from the speakers at yesterday’s event now available on the CHEX website www.chex.org.uk
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Booking open for CFHS community café visits
Booking is now open for CFHS’s latest community café learning visits, on 24 March in Edinburgh. The visits are open to anyone involved in or with a community café. The aim of the visits is to bring together café staff, volunteers, board / committee members or support / development workers to learn about how other …
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Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
CHEX conference – save the date
This will be another event to bring people working for community led health in Scotland together to talk, learn and share. The theme for the day is still being finalised, but is likely to feature issues around power and opportunities for empowerment brought about by the Community Empowerment Act and beyond. The Community Health Exchange …
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CFHS cooking skills learning exchange 2016
Our cooking skills learning exchange took place at the Apex Grassmarket Hotel in Edinburgh on 10 November 2016. The event was aimed at those who plan to, or already run, manage or commission community cooking skills courses in low-income communities in Scotland, and who were looking to improve the way they run, review and assess …
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Area of Work: Cookery skills
Household food insecurity
In December 2016, at Serenity Café in Edinburgh, a workshop was held sharing learning about, and reflecting on, work that is currently taking place in Scotland and in the rest of the UK on the issue of household food insecurity measurement. The day was supported by NHS Health Scotland, the Rural and Environment Science and …
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Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Networking and learning development
Co-production Week Scotland
Co-production Week Scotland is taking place on 14th – 20th November 2016. It’s a chance to highlight and promote the co-production approach, celebrate good work being done at local and national level and help create a shared vision for co-production in Scotland. Find out more at www.coproductionscotland.org.uk/coproweekscot/
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CFHS annual networking ‘sharing patter’ conference – Storify now available
The CFHS annual networking conference took place on 25 October in Glasgow. Thank you to all those that attended and contributed to this ‘sharing patter’ event, particularly to our speakers: Brenda Black: Equality Nutrition; Michael Craig: NHS Health Scotland; Dr Andrea Tonner: University of Strathclyde; and to our chair: Susan Kennedy: NHS Forth Valley. Delegates …