News and Blogs Latest News Food Insecurity Resource Space The Community Food National Reference Group is a partnership between Edinburgh Community Food, CFINE, Glasgow Community Food Network, and Lanarkshire Community Food & Health Partnership. The 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. What is cash first? What are Cash First approaches? Cash First Case Studies across Scotland Cash First: Towards Ending the Need for Food Banks in Scotland What is Cash First? A Podcast Cash First - Love and Solidarity Cash First - Kennishead Larder Cash First - Senior Centre Looking for support? Start here! National Scottish Welfare Fund Exchange Trussell Trust Food Vouchers Edinburgh Edinburgh Community Food's Cash First Toolkit Edinburgh - Worrying About Money Aberdeen Cash First in Aberdeen CFINE's SAFE Team Leaflet CFINE's SAFE Team Referral Form Glasgow Cash First Approaches in Glasgow Policy Research and Evaluations Promoting Cash First in Scotland LGIU Nourishing Scotland Brief Testing a Cash First Approach in Edinburgh Edinburgh Food Project - The Money Advice Service Cash First: What is Community Guiders Training? Cash First: Reducing the need for foodbanks in Glasgow Cash First in Community Settings - Insights from Glasgow Cash First: Money Counts Training for Glasgow Cash First: Glasgow Helps and NHS Cash-First: Interim Evaluation of the Cash-First Programme Charter 1.3 Cash First Cash first and the Crisis and Resilience Fund Cash-First approaches to supporting people facing financial hardship locally: A literature review Cash First: Training and awareness raising Hunger in the UK Tackling Child Poverty Response to Leeds' Cash First Experience in North Paddington Food Bank Social Dignity of Recipients Forms of autonomy and dependence in food aid Understanding journeys into and out of food insecurity Feeding Britain What can Community Initiatives do? Cash First Future; Making Food Banks history Towards Ending Food Banks Gathering Extra 2023: Building a cash first future Cash-first approaches to addressing food poverty Alliance for Dignified Food Support - Ethics Emergency Food Network Webinar - 'Moral Injury' Webinar: Hunger Trauma in Food Banks Managing Hunger Trauma in Support Workers Resources for organisations Food Poverty Action Aberdeen Support Services Document Community Food National Reference Group - Cash First Toolkit Community Guiders Training for Dundee Full of Beans - Activities Full of Beans Communications Toolkit What is a Seasonal Scottish Diet? How To Grow Your Own Food - Activities Climate Crumbs - Talking about Cooking Climate Crumbs - Talking About Growing Climate Crumbs - Talking about Food Stories from Cash First Aberdeen Independent Food Aid Network - Cash First Communities North Paddington Foodbank How might Cash First Approaches be implemented? Embedding Cash First Approaches Climate Change Cub in a Box Cash First in Glasgow Community Food Food and Nutrition Safety Training Training Dignity in Practice Hunger Trauma Alliance for Dignified Training The Community Food National Reference Group is a partnership created between CFINE, Edinburgh Community Food, Glasgow Community Food Network and Lanarkshire Community Food and Health Partnership. Manage Cookie Preferences