Edinburgh Community Food

We tackle health inequalities through our food & health development work, cooking, nutrition and REHIS courses.
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[Edinburgh Community Food @EdinComFood]

Have you moved to bluesky 🦋 ? Find us at @edincomfood.bsky.social 👋🏻 Give us a follow for updates on our produce, marketplace stall and deliveries, and our nutritionists work in the community 👨🏻‍🍳

[Edinburgh Community Food @EdinComFood]

@ScotGovFairer @S_A_Somerville @SocSecScot Thank you for visiting us at Edinburgh Community Food to meet parents and hear more about the support we offer around Best Start Foods. 🍓🥛🫘🫛🍞

[Edinburgh Community Food @EdinComFood]

@st_marys_leith @McTSingh Thank you to @McTSingh and all the amazing P7s. We loved to see the enthusiasm of the children and their love for fruit & veg! 👏🍓

[Edinburgh Community Food @EdinComFood]

We have made the decision to stop interacting on X.  We feel X is no longer the supportive and informative community it was, despite many of us trying to maintain this. Edinburgh Community Food will continue to post via Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn @EdinComFood and regularly update our website: https://t.co/csn0yn1ZKU
We hope to see you there.
Thank you.
The Edinburgh Community Food Team

[Edinburgh Community Food @EdinComFood]

Great to see our @MealsandMoreUK boxes out in the community. Our boxes are filled with nourishing ingredients, recipes, and information resources 📦🥕👩🏾‍🍳📰 Thank you for sharing @PilmenyDevProj

[Pilmeny Development Project @PilmenyDevProj]

Huge thanks to @EdinComFood for supporting pilmenys families over summer holidays by donating 15 food boxes with different ingredients & staples such as milk/bread 🥛🍞

This helped take pressure of families who need extra financial support over the holiday time👏🏻

#holidayhunger

[Edinburgh Community Food @EdinComFood]

Here at Edinburgh Community Food🍓, we respond
to ever-changing needs identified across the communities we support 💸 .We want to see a Scotland where everyone has fair access to money. Chris has written about the development of our Cash First Toolkit: https://t.co/2ES1pbeuoG #CashFirst

[Edinburgh Community Food @EdinComFood]

You are invited to our 2024 AGM! 🍓
We’d love for you to join us on Tuesday 24th September to hear about what we’ve been up to over the past year.
Let us know you’re coming by booking a spot: https://t.co/8N9lyWel43

[Edinburgh Community Food @EdinComFood]

We're proud of our joint project with LINKnet mentoring, Eat Well for Oral Health and how it aims to reduce inequalities and improve oral health across Scotland🦷✨Read our project partner Ahmed's blog about how we do this through our community work 🔽

[Voluntary Health Scotland @VHSComms]

Our latest member blog is from LINKnet mentoring. You can read Ahmed's Blog: Closing the Gap- Addressing Oral Health Inequities in Scotland. A great project doing fantastic work to address health inequalities. https://t.co/e7wzfKP7Mo

[Edinburgh Community Food @EdinComFood]

This week is World Breastfeeding Week 2024. The theme is Closing the Gap: Support for All 💜 Progress in Scotland has been made but inequalities still exist. Those who want to continue breastfeeding do not feel supported enough. Scotland = a right to breastfeed a child <2 yrs of age in a public place 👶🏻🤱🏻 Helpful resources @parentclubscotland @NHS_Lothian
Feeding your baby: https://t.co/yUl3xPVi4e

#WBW2024 #BreastfeedingFriendlyScotland #TogetherForMoms

[Edinburgh Community Food @EdinComFood]

We are delighted to share full access to yesterday's Business page of @TheScotsman which features our CEO, Brenda Black, discussing the role of #EdinburghCommunityFood in tackling food poverty across the city. Please read and share our website page: https://t.co/zpEO5p2gVN 🍓

We are a social enterprise. Every penny donated creates an opportunity for food fun and education 👩🏻‍🍳🍓 If you would like to support our work further, please donate here: https://t.co/NBKklnPRqD

[Edinburgh Community Food @EdinComFood]

Our CEO, Brenda, features in Business @TheScotsman today: https://t.co/CcCYxIU1ef Brenda discusses the role of Edinburgh Community Food in tackling food poverty across the city using a holistic approach, applying earlier interventions to support those in need.

We are a social enterprise. Every penny donated creates an opportunity for food fun and education 👩🏻‍🍳🍓 If you would like to support our work further, please donate via our website here: https://t.co/NBKklnPRqD.

For more information, contact Karen at 📧 [email protected] or call 📞 0131 467 7326

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[Edinburgh Community Food @EdinComFood]

Read all about a week in the life of a Food &amp; Health Development Officer at Edinburgh Community Food! 🍓 https://t.co/kGofDdT2yP Theodora has had a busy week! 😃👩🏻‍🍳#edinburghfoodcharity

[Edinburgh Community Food @EdinComFood]

The @Food_Foundation latest #FoodInsecurity Tracker shows that 7.2 million adults experienced food insecurity in June 2024:
🏠 Households with more children are more likely to be food insecure.
🍝 food must be made more #affordable
🧒🏻End the 2-child benefit cap

[The Food Foundation @Food_Foundation]

📈 Nearly 10 million adults and children are struggling to afford basic essentials such as food, according to our latest #FoodInsecurity Tracker.

And households with children in the poorest 5th of the population would have to spend 70% of their disposable income to afford a healthy diet.

More findings: ➡️ https://t.co/eAIZXvgnph
#CostOfLivingCrisis #FreeSchoolMeals

[Edinburgh Community Food @EdinComFood]

Stages of delicious food:
1. Chop up food 👩🏻‍🍳
2. Taste food 😋
3. Thumbs up! 👍🏻
It is important that children are exposed to different foods and given the opportunity to chop, explore, taste and play with food. These exposures can influence a lifelong #positive relationship with food and cooking.

[Edinburgh Community Food @EdinComFood]

Please share 🍓
Applications for free:
😋 school meals,🥛 Milk, 🧥 School clothing are open for the 2024/25 school year. Applications must be in by 31st July 2024. Apply here: https://t.co/HutfGpvIdM

[[email protected] @infogicorguk1]

Free school meals, milk and school clothing grant applications are open for the 24/25 school year.

You must apply by 31st July 2024 if you want to receive your award before the new term begins on the 14th August 2024.

For more information, visit: https://t.co/7cCmqdVD7c

[Edinburgh Community Food @EdinComFood]

Interesting report from @bridging_gap_uk 📑 Inspiring to read about what other countries are doing to make #climate and #nature friendly food accessible to all—policy and programme examples from India, Canada, Denmark, Italy, Sweden and the USA +. Check it out below 👇🏻

[Sustain @UKSustain]

📣New report📣
@bridging_gap_uk launch international #foodpolicy review bringing together case studies from the UK and around the world that support access to healthy and #naturefriendly food for all.
https://t.co/LqTmp5mk7k

[Edinburgh Community Food @EdinComFood]

Huge thanks to @BurgesSalmon for their incredible #donation of £3,333.33 towards our community food work in Edinburgh, working to make sure everyone has equal access to nourishing food🍓 Lovely to meet Eilidh who came to meet us and hear more about our projects #edinburghfoodcharity