Healthier food - Healthier lives - Healthier futures
The Community Food National Reference Group has worked collaboratively to develop a resource space allowing access to information on local and national cash first approaches to tackling food insecurity and poverty. Read more
Read about our Eat Well for Oral Health project in collaboration with LINKnet Mentoring designed to improve child, family - and targeted communities - oral health by sharing diet and nutrition knowledge and enhancing cooking skills and confidence using a community-based approach. Read more
Edinburgh Community Food have teamed up with VegPower again this year for the Growing to Love (formerly Grow Strong) tomato growing project with schools, getting children interested and learning all about growing food to eat. Read more
Our Food and Health Development team are now running sessions online and around Edinburgh helping families learn how to feed their babies, toddlers and young children a healthy diet. Read more
Umbrella Hubs provide support for families across Edinburgh. Read more
Free advice on introducing food to your baby via online Zoom session. Please e-mail Jo at [email protected] if you'd like to participate. Read more
This online workshop offers practical tips on managing fussy eating behaviours. Please contact Jo at [email protected] or telephone 0131 467 7326 to book a place. Read more
We are working with the Big House Project in Fife to provide local organisations, community cafes, charities, schools, criminal justice services and health & social work teams with essential items for children and families. Read more
The Edinburgh Community Cafe Network brings cafes together to help increase the community cafe brand and to bridge, bond and link their social capital. Read more
Information, a toolkit and resources on Cash First approaches for organisations supporting their communities with money worries. Read more
Read about Edinburgh Community Food's involvement in the City of Edinburgh Council's Discover! programme aimed at support families over the school holidays. Read more
Here you'll find some short cooking videos to support our Discover! families. Read more
The Willow Service was created by NHS Lothian and City of Edinburgh Council to address the social, health and welfare needs of women in the criminal justice system. Edinburgh Community Food works within this service to support the nutritional needs of the women visiting the centre. Read more