Healthier food - Healthier lives - Healthier futures
Edinburgh Community Food and LINKnet Mentoring are excited to be offering FREE 6 week cooking and nutrition courses throughout the year to help people gain confidence in cooking nutritious affordable meals and providing oral health awareness information. 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
Take 5 Access was a 12-week themed programme to improve: access to healthier food, advice and partnership support services in a friendly, inclusive local setting for multiple vulnerable communities. Read more
Our Early Years Nutrition Specialist, Sema Jamali, is running sessions online and around Edinburgh helping families learn how to feed their babies, toddlers and young children a healthy diet. 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
Information, a toolkit and resources on Cash First approaches for organisations supporting their communities with money worries. Read more
Here you'll find some short cooking videos to support our Discover! families. Read more
Find out what we've been doing to support carers, thanks to funding received from Vocal. Read more
Please read our latest project impact reports here. 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
This online workshop offers practical tips on managing fussy eating behaviours. Please contact Sema at [email protected] or telephone 0131 467 7326 to book a place. 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
Free advice on introducing food to your baby via online Zoom session. Please e-mail Sema at [email protected] if you would like to join. 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
This project is run in partnership with Edinburgh and Lothians Greenspace Trust and funded by City of Edinburgh Council and NHS Lothian and aims to increase social capital, promote healthy lifestyles and reduce health inequalities through community development. Read more