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Supporting Scottish food producers

We spoke to Joanne Burns from Food and Drink Federation (FDF) Scotland about their new nationwide reformulation challenge launching across the country. Reformul8 supports small- to medium-sized food businesses and works in partnership with all 32 local authorities who have identified a local Reformul8 champion. The champion will support the food business to select a range of products to be reformulated.

Joanne says Reformul8 is based on eight core principles, which include reducing fat, salt or sugars, increasing fibre, fruit or vegetables, and reducing overall calories/portion sizes. ‘Each business taking part will benefit from a range of media support to celebrate the great work they are doing within their community,’ she adds.

This challenge forms part of FDF Scotland’s Reformulation for Health programme, which is funded by Scottish Government. Reformul8 is an excellent opportunity for different parts of the food industry to work together to improve the health of Scotland’s people. As a food service company focused on healthier options, Reformul8 allows you to support your suppliers to provide healthy, locally sourced products.

If you work with Scottish suppliers including butchers, bakers or sandwich makers, get in touch with Joanne at reformulation@fdfscotland.org.uk to find out how FDF could support them, which helps you to extend your healthy options.

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Community food: CFHS and Senscot updates

Community Food and Health (Scotland) (CFHS) aims to ensure that everyone in Scotland has the opportunity, ability and confidence to access a healthy and acceptable diet for themselves, their families and their communities. It does this by supporting work with and within low-income communities that addresses health inequalities and barriers to healthy and affordable food.

In November 2019, CFHS held their annual networking event, Priceless, with Professor Wendy Wills, professor of food and public health, and director of the Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care, University of Hertfordshire, as keynote speaker. You can read more about it at www.communityfoodandhealth.org.uk/2019/priceless-cfhs-annual-networkingconference-4-november-2019

Senscot works to ensure that social enterprises in Scotland have the support they need to deliver positive outcomes in their communities. Senscot members have started to develop community cafes in their social enterprises, with much enthusiasm. An initial paper was produced which shows how community cafe activity is resourced, particularly with regards to the challenges of turning over a surplus. The paper is available at https://senscot.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Social-Enterprise-and-Community-Cafe-Activity.pdf

A series of six peer-to-peer learning resources were developed and the first three facts sheets are:

For more information contact mary@senscot.net

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