Author: Kathleen Nutt, The National

Ministers have vowed to introduce ambitious legislation over the coming months to transform Scotland’s relationship with food following parliamentary pressure.

Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing has promised to consult to wide-ranging plans aimed at protecting and expanding the food and drink sector and to implement measures to address poor diet, obesity and food poverty.

He is also to consider including enshrining a Right to Food in the legislation, which if passed would make Scotland the first country in Europe to do so.

Ewing announced his plan in Holyrood during a debate to celebrate the country’s food and drink industry. It followed criticisms that a Good Food Nation Bill did not feature as expected in the First Minister’s programme for government.

“Let me seek to be helpful by re-emphasising the Scottish Government’s commitment to providing legislation to underpin Scotland’s status as a good food nation. I am pleased to reaffirm today our clear commitment to introduce legislation in the current session of Parliament,” Ewing told MSPs on Thursday.

The legislation is seen as particularly pressing in light of Brexit and fears leaving the EU will present major threats to the industry as well as increasing food costs to consumers.

The Food Foundation think tank has estimated around 220,000 children in Scotland are living in households which are unlikely to be able to afford a healthy diet as defined by a UK Government eating guide. It found families earning less than £11,700 need to spend 68% of their income after housing costs to follow the Eatwell Guide.

Ewing agreed to consult with Labour and Greens to put the “right to food” at the heart of the bill and include targets on health and wellbeing. The bill is supported by the Scottish Food Coalition which includes Unite, Unison, Oxfam, Obesity Action Scotland and the Trussell Trust.

Pete Ritchie of Nourish Scotland, a member of the coalition, welcomed the news, saying: “This bill can fundamentally change Scotland’s uneasy relationship with food. We don’t eat well, we export food all over the world yet we have kids going hungry.”

The Green’s Mark Ruskell said: “This U-turn by the government to finally introduce a Good Food Nation Bill shows the power of parliament speaking up with one voice this week. Much of the groundwork to introduce a bill and a Right to Food has been done, what was lacking was the political will to deliver. We’ll look forward to making this bill as ambitious as it can be, delivering a joined up plan to tackle the problems of poor diet and lack of access to quality food.”

Labour’s Colin Smyth said: “The SNP dropped the Good Food Nation Bill… and have now been forced to bring it back thanks to a Labour amendment and Holyrood vote on Thursday.”

Scotland’s food and drink sector is worth around £14 billion a year to the economy, with exports totalling a record £6bn last year.

A Scottish Government spokesman said: “We remain committed to introducing legislation to underpin the significant work being done to meet our Good Food Nation vision and welcome the support of Parliament in this regard.”

Author: Ally Tibbitt, The Ferret

A survey of the funding of every community council in Scotland has sparked claims that the bodies are being systematically undermined by a lack of support from local authorities.

In Dundee, the local authority that spends the least on local democracy, the survey reveals that just one penny per person per year is spent on helping community councils. Elsewhere, the vast majority of councils spend less than 20p per person per year, with rural local authorities tending to invest more.

Only the island councils of Orkney and Shetland support their local community councils with more than £1 per person per year.

The figures were compiled by Portobello community councillor Lee Kindness, from multiple freedom of information requests. He, like virtually all community councillors in Scotland, is a volunteer.

He told The Ferret that Portobello Community Council is funded by a grant of £900 per year from the City of Edinburgh Council, but that this does not cover the regular outgoings of the community council.

Costs included hall rental, consultation software, insurance and registration fees with bodies such as the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, which all community councils must have, he said. “There is a structural deficit of £140 per year, and only a generous donation from a local business has kept the community council solvent.”

He pointed out the council was spending less than a penny per month to hear views from local people, and that this level of funding made it difficult for the community council to fulfil its statutory role. This is to “ascertain, co-ordinate and express to the local authority for its area… the views of the community which it represents.”

He had uncovered huge disparities in local democracy spending across Scotland, he argued. “A community council in Dundee should be equally empowered to carry out its statutory duty as one one in the Shetland Isles.”

Council spending per person on community councils

Local Authority  Per Capita Spend

Shetland Islands               £6.81

Orkney Islands  £3.92

Highland              £0.80

Na h-Eileanan Siar            £0.50

Scottish Borders               £0.43

Argyll and Bute £0.36

Dumfries and Galloway £0.33

West Dunbartonshire    £0.27

East Dunbartonshire       £0.24

Stirling  £0.23

Aberdeenshire £0.20

Fife        £0.19

Angus   £0.18

Moray   £0.17

East Ayrshire      £0.14

East Lothian        £0.13

Inverclyde           £0.13

Aberdeen City   £0.11

South Ayrshire  £0.11

Clackmannanshire           £0.11

Midlothian          £0.09

Renfrewshire    £0.09

West Lothian     £0.09

Perth and Kinross            £0.08

City of Edinburgh             £0.07

Glasgow City      £0.06

North Ayrshire  £0.06

North Lanarkshire            £0.06

South Lanarkshire            £0.05

Falkirk   £0.05

East Renfrewshire           £0.04

Dundee City       £0.01

There is currently no national body that represents community councils in Scotland. But the research undertaken by Kindness has prompted further calls for reform from other campaign groups.

Clare Symonds, Chair of Planning Democracy said that she found that community councillors felt a huge pressure to represent their communities, but often felt they were simply not resourced to undertake the work that was needed to adequately represent local views when major planning applications were proposed.

“In the case of complex planning applications, it may be impractical for community councils to perform a valid consultation, collate the feedback and lodge a meaningful representation within the timescales allowed,” she said.

A new planning bill currently being considered by the Scottish Parliament includes proposals that community councils could play a role in developing “local place plans” to guide development in their area.

But Planning Democracy has pointed out to MSPs that there are no proposals to provide guaranteed additional resources to community councils to carry out this work in the planned new system.

In England, where local authorities are already encouraged to work with local communities to develop similar “neighbourhood plans,” councils are given £20,000 to fund the development work. In some cases, this work has cost more than £100,000 per plan, experts working with Planning Democracy have said.

Author: Kevin McKenna, The Observer

The site where Jacobite forces made their last stand faces a new threat. Protesters hope a change to Scottish law could save it, reports

For nearly three centuries the bones of Highland soldiers who fell defending their land, language and faith have lain undisturbed on Culloden Moor, a few miles east of Inverness. On 16 April 1746, these Jacobites had fought to the death with their Bonnie Prince Charlie in a bloody and brutal battle against the Duke of Cumberland’s Hanoverian forces. It was the final act of the third Jacobite Uprising.

Culloden is anointed, a war grave sanctified by the blood of 1,500 Jacobites and their Hanoverian foes and the last land battle on British soil. Kingdoms and governments have come and gone but they all respected this place, its dead and the cause they died to defend.

On the battlefield yesterday, groups of tourists stooped to examine the obelisks that marked the places where the clans fell with their chiefs. Among them were Americans wondering if they might be related to the names commemorated here: the Stewarts, the Camerons (the first to declare for their prince), the Mackintoshes and the McGillivrays.

There are no saltires or lions rampant in this place, no gaudy tartan or wailing bagpipes. There is no strident patriotism or manufactured resentment; there is only peace amid what poets might call a terrible beauty. One of them, Aonghas MacNeacail wrote: “We followed you, Prince, to this ocean of flatness and bullets.”

Yet, under a Nationalist government that has pledged to uphold Scottish sovereignty, this place will be disturbed once more, not by the ring of swords and battle-axes but by JCBs and pneumatic drills.

A development of 16 luxury houses by Kirkwood Homes has been approved despite pleas to the Scottish government by conservation groups to have the plans called in for further scrutiny. Several other planning applications are in varying degrees of progress.

The developers maintain that the new buildings will be on the periphery of the ancient battlefield, and that the site itself will not be disturbed. Opponents, though, are aghast at the prospect of the hallowed site being eventually hemmed in by an extensive multi-use development that, they say, will alter drastically the fundamental character of the place. Less than the length of a field away from the scene of battle a digger can be glimpsed amid mounds of earth as a building site begins to take shape.

A demonstration against the development is to be held at Culloden Battlefield on 13 October, while a petition on Change.org has attracted close to 100,000 signatures.

If the construction goes ahead, the petition reads, the area “will lose its ability to convey a sense of historical and cultural significance, as a memorial, in which to sit and contemplate, as a place of connection for millions of people around the world.”

Professor Sir Tom Devine, one of Scotland’s foremost historians, has now added his voice to those of the protesters in urging the government to halt the development. This weekend he said: “The Battle of Culloden spread into the surrounding fields as English dragoons chased the remnants of the Highland army and cut them down. Their bones are scattered all around the periphery, which makes this, too, part of the Culloden war grave.

“It’s a national disgrace that these plans are being waved through. Scotland has a wretched record in preserving its sacred battle sites, but this would be the worst cut of all.

“The defeat of Jacobitism on that moorland was followed by a ruthless and systematic onslaught by the British state to extirpate clanship and the religion, identity and culture of Gaeldom, the society which was seen by the Hanoverians as the poisonous root of political disaffection.”

At the heart of the struggle to preserve the integrity of Culloden is Scottish planning legislation, which community groups say works in developers’ favour. In the case of Culloden, the original planning application was rejected by Highland Council only for the housing firm to make an appeal. The government official who assessed the builders’ appeal upheld it.

Opponents of the Culloden development are bitterly disappointed that while planning laws allow for cashrich developers to appeal decisions, local objectors have no such rights. Thus, they say, any party intent on seeking to exploit Scotland’s natural beauty or vivid history for profit can appeal against a decision while those affected by it cannot.

Campaigners are urging MSPs to use a new planning bill currently going through Holyrood to redress fundamental inequalities in the planning system between developers and communities. The Scottish parliament’s local government and communities committee has been assessing amendments to the bill, including one that would establish a crucial right of appeal for communities.

The vote on equal rights of appeal will be taken on 31 October. The group Planning Democracy, which is leading the campaign for equal rights of appeal, is calling for MSPs to support amendments to the bill which would give communities a right to appeal controversial planning decisions.

Author: Howard Lake, UK Fundraising

Platypus Digital, the charity digital marketing agency, has created a free email marketing course entitled ‘Why do digital?’ It is designed to show CEOs, trustees and funders why they need to use digital technology, rather than whator how to do it.

Its objective is, by winning that argument, to help release more funding for digital activities, a commonly-reported challenge faced by many fundraisers.

Matt Collins, Managing Director of Platypus Digital, believes that there is too much debate in charities about what to do with digital tools (usually it is ‘more digital’) or how to do it, such as how to use particular digital platforms effectively.

These debates, he argues, don’t usually help to solve the challenge of a lack of commitment to take full advantage of the opportunities digital provides.

The 10-stage email course is designed for charity staff to work their way through on their daily commute. Collins says that it will “arm you with the arguments you need to convince senior management by the time you get to work”.

He added: “It’s also perfect for people who want to understand the opportunities digital creates for their charity themselves.”

What the course covers

The course, available from the Why Do Digital website, covers:

•             The trends – and why they mean you need to take digital seriously

•             Fundraising – why keeping your eggs out of the digital fundraising basket puts your charity at risk

•             Comms – why your communications team is digital first, whether they like it or not

•             Service delivery – why you can’t deliver your service without digital 

•             Culture – why you can’t do anything without the right culture

After you sign up for free, you will receive one email every morning, each of which takes around two minutes to read, for 10 consecutive days.

People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it

Matt Collins explained more about the reason Platypus Digital were offering the course.

He said: “Like 38 million other people, we were inspired by Simon Sinek’s incredible Ted Talk ‘How great leaders inspire action’. We too believe that people don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.

“We looked around the current messages about adoption of digital in charities, and realised the question ‘Why should we do digital?’ simply wasn’t being answered – everything covered what to do and how to do it. So we wanted to take the debate back a step, and try to answer that absolutely fundamental question.

“We strongly believe that lack of funding is the big problem. And a sector that fully understands why it should do digital will soon find that to be less of a problem.”

Author: SCDC

Have your say about the future of human rights in Scotland.

Share your views in this online survey now >>

Last year, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon set up an independent Advisory Group to develop a series of recommendations and actions around human rights in Scotland – and you can have your say with this online survey.

Human rights are a vital part of a just and equal society. They give you a set of rights and freedoms regardless of where you are from, how old you are, what you believe, or how you choose to live your life.

How your human rights are affected by governments and other bodies is becoming increasingly important, with the Advisory Group making recommendations on how we can protect our existing rights and examine how Scotland can go further in demonstrating human rights leadership.

The Advisory Group want to hear your views and feedback on their developing recommendations and how they can be made as effective as possible in improving the lives of people and communities.  

Share your views >>

The survey will be open until 11th October.

Author: BBC

First female skipper of world’s last ferry of its kind

A 21-year-old has qualified as a skipper on the world’s last sea-going, manually-operated, turntable ferry.

Isabelle Law worked summer jobs on the MV Glenachulish, which is almost 50 years old and serves the oldest crossing to Skye from the mainland.

Ms Law, from Skye, is the first woman to take charge of the boat.

She said: “It is quite unique for a woman to be a skipper, so hopefully it will encourage other people to follow their dreams.”

The MV Glenachulish is almost 50 years old

The boat is owned by a community company

A car ferry has crossed the straits since 1934.

The current service has been run by a community-owned company since 2007. It took over the route after long-time ferryman Roddy MacLeod retired.

Ms Law realised that she wanted to help to keep the ferry service going while working on the MV Glenachulish during her school holidays.

She said: “To be the skipper would help them out in years to come.”

The ferry is operated on the oldest crossing to Skye from the mainland

About her job she said: “It is not intimidating, but it is a huge task to take on.

“You are in charge of this vessel and you are in charge of the passengers’ safety.

“But I’ve got amazing helpers that have helped me to achieve this, and they are constantly helping me out to learn how to handle the vessel.”

A car ferry has crossed the straits since 1934. The current service has been run by a community-owned company since 2007. It took over the route after long-time ferryman Roddy MacLeod retired.

The ferry is operated on the oldest crossing to Skye from the mainland

Author: Tom Hughes-Hallett

Tom Hughes-Hallett’s new charity HelpForce has already achieved great results by recruiting volunteers. Now he challenges the nation to fulfil the original NHS vision of shared benefit and shared responsibility

I am a HelpForce volunteer, and I’d like you to become one too. It is a life-changing experience. HelpForce? You’ve probably never heard of us — so here’s the general idea. On one of my shifts I found a patient in great distress with obvious mental health problems outside our hospital. I brought him in, calmed him down and helped him to his appointment. Result: a contented patient, no staff time wasted and immense personal satisfaction for me.

A fellow volunteer rings and reminds patients to go to their memory clinics. Attendance has leapt from 15% to 100%.

Another volunteer, whose decision to join was spurred by a difficult patch in his life, told me his children are proud of him for doing so.

Motorbike fanatics across the country act as volunteer couriers, riding 900cc bikes to deliver urgently needed blood — saving lives and feeling useful.

This is what we do in HelpForce. We help hospitals, patients and staff in the NHS, and in return we achieve a sense of purpose doing something exciting and challenging. This is why I founded HelpForce.

When I was chief executive of Marie Curie, a cancer care charity, we had 10,000 volunteers supporting 4,000 staff, and they made all the difference. I now chair Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, where 6,000 people work. I see amazing, committed staff supporting an ever-increasing number of patients, yet there are only a few hundred volunteers helping them.

Why is the NHS failing to engage its own citizens? It was this glaringly obvious question that led me to create HelpForce with the notable support of the Royal Voluntary Service and other charities and NHS trusts. We are on a mission to inspire as many people as possible to enjoy being part of the health and care of British people. I would like to see volunteers underpinning every aspect of our NHS, which is to my mind the world’s greatest health system.

I can imagine a Britain where millions of people are proud to be the HelpForce — a Britain where giving back to the NHS and other public services is ingrained in our social fabric, where you can expect companionship and support through your entire time in the health system and where communities support nurses and doctors to produce a more complete healthcare experience.

In our vision, vulnerable patients will be accompanied through the health system by a safe and reliable volunteer.

What could it look like? If you are a nurse, volunteers will take the pressure off you, happy to be bleeped to run errands, enabling you to provide more expert care. They will sit with the most vulnerable, lonely, distressed and even troublesome patients. In your hospital, fewer nurses will leave as they recognise they are working for a hospital that takes their health and wellbeing seriously.

If you are a patient, imagine never being alone on a visit to hospital. A volunteer will pick you up and take you to your appointment. They will stay with you during the appointment and take notes. They will explain what the treatment involves. They will take you home and pick the milk up on the way. They will sit with you until a friend or relative gets home. They will remain your companion. 

Ambulance services will send a paramedic accompanied by a volunteer. If all you need is to be checked, don’t worry, because the volunteer will stay with you until you feel better, and the guilt you felt for calling an ambulance that somebody else needed will go away. 

If you are in hospital, a trained volunteer will support NHS physios and help you out of bed every day so that you are in good shape to go home more quickly. They may help you with applying for benefits.

When it is time to leave, there will be no waiting around, because volunteers will collect your prescription and drive you home. When individual hospitals are facing bills of £12m or more to help patients get home, volunteers can reduce that cost, allowing the money to flow back to clinical services.

If you are terminally ill, you will not die alone. A volunteer will be with you. In the event that you want to go home for your final weeks, they will support you in doing so. 

Digitally, the possibilities for HelpForce are almost boundless: WhatsApp-style groups linking volunteers across the nation to share best practice; a “Tinder” for volunteering, matching safe and reliable volunteers with patients or staff who need their support; and a “TripAdvisor” of the best volunteer experiences.

In the past 18 months we have moved from being a concept in my imagination to the beginning of a nationally recognised movement in Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland and England.

The HelpForce idea is so simple and could be so successful, yet most people do not even know it is possible to volunteer at an NHS hospital. 

In 1942 the social reformer William Beveridge published what became the blueprint for the postwar welfare state, using words that have been my constant inspiration: “The state, in organising security, should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility; in establishing a national minimum, it should leave room and encouragement for voluntary action by each individual to provide more than that minimum for himself and his family.” 

We have moved far from Beveridge’s original vision of a shared project to build a better Britain — shared between the state and the population. Now we as citizens expect everything free in return for paying our taxes. We have moved from a society that balanced rights and duties to a society that believes in duty-less rights. Unsurprisingly, compassionate communities have become a threatened species. 

In the NHS there are too many patients supported by too few staff, who are becoming increasingly frustrated and exhausted. The NHS system has become gridlocked by demands for more funding, when innovation and new models have to be found.

 We are in an economic environment where rapid, bold, action-based solutions are needed. 

New figures show that in 40 years’ time our population of pensioners will have increased by 9m. Medical advance is to be celebrated, but the consequences can be complicated. Longer lives — yes. Better lives? Doubtful, when you may live your final decades with a host of chronic illnesses. 

You can see why so many NHS leaders have become pessimistic. But we can be optimistic if we think differently and build a new, shared NHS owned equally by citizens, communities and the state.

A seemingly impossible healthcare challenge is less daunting if we begin to balance rights with duties through volunteering support.

An exciting shift is evident, with people of all ages wanting to get stuck in to support our public services. Giving time and talent has become more important than giving money, and an increasing awareness of the inequities in our society provides fertile ground for the creation of a social movement that can bring Beveridge’s vision back.

This is timely, as confidence in established charities is falling. Charities that get too close to government lose public trust, find their hands tied and fail in their own stated mission, as we have seen with recent high-profile cases. When this failure happens, we all lose, but the beneficiaries lose the most.

There are many shining examples of charities that are getting it right — the Royal Voluntary Service, Marie Curie, Alzheimer’s Society, British Red Cross and St John Ambulance, to name only a few volunteer-driven organisations. HelpForce is working closely with them and smaller, local charities to bring the best of their work into the heart of the NHS.

We identify local excellence, evaluate it, share best practice and expand nationally to help the NHS everywhere to use volunteering to support patients and reduce the strain on our wonderful but often exhausted NHS staff. By doing this, we will see volunteering unblock the obstacles along the care pathway, ridding the chief executives and their staff of constant headaches.

Never do we seek to replace paid employment. We seek only to support paid staff, allowing them to carry out the roles for which they have been trained, and we are working closely with trade unions. Volunteering is a natural pathway into the NHS workforce at a time when the NHS needs more people to join its ranks.

All over the UK there are wonderful examples of NHS trusts benefiting already from new forms of care provided at least in part by volunteers through small local charities, and large ones such as the Royal Voluntary Service.

Now it is your opportunity. We are inviting individuals and communities: “Be the HelpForce. Get involved personally; put your own skin in the game.”

Contact your local hospital and offer to help, or email info@helpforce.community — or visit helpforce.community— to find out

Author: Standards Council Scotland

Click here to enter survey introduction Welcome to the Working with Scotland’s Communities Survey

Author: The Alliance for a Community Wealth Fund

Full report here

Foreward

This report is based on research and a range of conversations that reveal quite remarkable common ground on how billions of pounds could be untapped and released to local communities. But it also goes further than previous proposals – in suggesting a radical and ambitious partnership between government, the private sector and civil society.

Communities across our country are facing challenges every day. Increasingly, the case is becoming clearer for how an ambitious long-term endowment could help those areas that have – to date – missed out on the proceeds of a growing economy. This idea could be understood as a Community Wealth Fund, tasked with supporting long term, patient investment in the social and civic economy of areas that need it most. This fund would provide the investment and support needed to support strong relationships and social action across England, supporting a richer and more resilient civil society in areas which have struggled in the face  of economic and social challenges.  The government’s Civil Society Strategy, published in August 2018, offers a vision of substantial place-based investment programmes that introduce new models of investment to raise social and economic outcomes and new approaches in communities where there is a lack of capacity and capability to access investment. Our proposal is for the creation of a sustainable pot of money to reinvest long term in communities and to support the development of the community infrastructure that  underpins a strong civil society, from community ownership of assets to investment in networks of local community organisations. We hope this report is a constructive contribution to the debate. It reflects the view of those consulted so far. But it is the start of a process and significantly more consultation and dialogue is needed with stakeholders across the charitable, voluntary and community sector, and with the public and private sectors in order to develop and strengthen the idea. Our aspiration is, over the coming months, to further strengthen a broad alliance in support of the Community Wealth Fund. Much like the fund itself, we hope this report takes us forward, unites rather than divides, and empowers those who want to see local communities thrive. As the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, says, “Prosperity requires not just investment in economic capital, but investment in social capital”.

Executive Summary

A new wave of unclaimed assets could be worth billions of pounds. While this money may be a long way away, a consensus is already emerging around how these resources could be used most effectively for the benefit of society. The Government, NCVO, Locality and others are all keen to see the money used to provide strategic, long-term funding to support communities who need it the most.

Since the Brexit vote, many people in the UK have started to give greater consideration to how local communities might recapture a greater sense of empowerment and control over their futures. How can we bridge divides and address the feeling of being “left behind”? Rebuilding social capital and trust is back on the agenda – essential to the functioning of our society and economy. We know that civil society builds trust and connections and creates a sense of belonging. Associations enable people to participate in their communities. But civil society is fragile and held back from helping communities fulfil their potential, due to a mix of funding pressures, market forces, myths about charity overheads, and flawed policy responses.  We know we must address the fragility of the institutions and spaces that enable participation and association, in turn rebuilding social capital. This is how we can rebuild trust.

Some places have been left behind by globalisation as our economic model has not benefitted all communities equally. But areas of deep-seated deprivation can recover through emerging models of local economic development. Communities are seizing opportunities to do things for themselves. New Shared Prosperity Funds, which will replace European Structural Funds, will provide a unique opportunity to support and develop these solutions. But prosperity requires investment in social, not just economic capital. We need to nurture social capital in areas where it is weak or nonexistent and help communities develop the capabilities needed to participate in community economic development. This requires a new approach.

So our proposal envisages the creation of a Community Wealth Fund, providing long term, patient investment in support of place-led change – a fund to create opportunity and unlock the power of communities. This fund would seek to empower people to develop solutions and enable communities to develop  their own responses.

Unclaimed assets in insurance and pension funds, bonds and stock and shares are potentially worth billions of pounds. But we could see the creation of a fund worth £4 – £5 billion if a range of resources were brought together. This could include the release of share capital from the private sector, civil society’s stranded assets, other unclaimed assets not yet identified and community assets which already exist at the local level.

It is too early to specify in detail how such a fund would be managed and distributed. But our consultation suggests considerable consensus around the principles of a place-based model, long term funding, community control, national support and collaboration with other stakeholders.

 A fund on this scale could deliver transformative social, economic and financial impact. It could also support community commissioned services, save assets, build new infrastructure, enhance democracy and build new relationships across society.  We therefore recommend that civil society establishes an independent and credible taskforce, with the support and endorsement of Government, to take the Community Wealth Fund proposal forward over the coming months. We look forward to playing our part in its development, creation and success.

  August 2018

Author: Nourish Scotland

Click here to read more details about Nourish Scotland and Poverty Truth Commission’s work to ensure community food provision is delivered with dignity