Healthier food - Healthier lives - Healthier futures
Get on Board...
Interested in joining the ECF Board but not sure what it might be like?
ECF is a small but enterprising and extremely creative charity, doing great things in local communities to encourage greater awareness, running courses about the difference healthy eating can make – and helping to empower people to make better choices. We deliver fresh fruit and veg to corporate customers, supporting them to help their employees make healthier choices. ECF staff support food co-ops across the city and offer training for individuals and community groups on food hygiene and nutritional issues. It's all about affordable healthy choices, and helping people to eat better on a budget.
The Board meets once a month at 6pm and our meetings usually last about an hour and a half. We may ask you to get involved in 'sub-groups'. These are effectively short-term working groups, made up of Board members and ECF staff, with each group focussing on a particular task. For example, one of sub-group tasks was to be involved in publishing ECF's Strategic Plan 2019 - 2022 in the autumn of 2018.
Board members can tweet from our AGM or retweet helping ECF pick up some new followers – we're @EdinComFood if you're interested in following us. (We're on Facebook, too – 'like' Edinburgh Community Food.) Board members are very supportive of each other and we really do all work as a team.
A quote from one of our board members:
"I'd never been a Board member before and wasn't quite sure what to expect but our very capable Chair and Deputy Chair keep us right and make sure we are clear about our responsibilities. You can choose how much you want to do between Board meetings but it really helps to get involved in sub-groups when they come up – to broaden your understanding of the organisation and get to know some of the ECF team a bit better as well. If you're looking for a slightly different way to deploy some of your work or other skills – particularly in the area of finance, we couldn't recommend the experience highly enough. All it takes is a couple of hours a month and you could be helping us steer ECF through exciting times ahead. Oh, and you get to eat fruit, too!"
"I'd never been a Board member before and wasn't quite sure what to expect but our very capable Chair and Deputy Chair keep us right and make sure we are clear about our responsibilities. You can choose how much you want to do between Board meetings but it really helps to get involved in sub-groups when they come up – to broaden your understanding of the organisation and get to know some of the ECF team a bit better as well.
If you're looking for a slightly different way to deploy some of your work or other skills – particularly in the area of finance, we couldn't recommend the experience highly enough. All it takes is a couple of hours a month and you could be helping us steer ECF through exciting times ahead.
Oh, and you get to eat fruit, too!"