Food Insecurity Resource Space has been developed by the Community Food National Reference Group, a partnership between CFINE, Edinburgh Community Food, Glasgow Community Food Network, and Lanarkshire Community Food & Health Partnership. The group has worked collaboratively to develop this resource centre allowing access to information on local and national cash first approaches to tackling food insecurity and poverty.
Cash First Resources
Food Poverty Action Aberdeen Support Services Document
Community Food National Reference Group - Cash First Toolkit
Community Guiders Training for Dundee
Full of Beans Communications Toolkit
What is a Seasonal Scottish Diet?
How To Grow Your Own Food - Activities
Climate Crumbs - Talking about Cooking
Climate Crumbs - Talking About Growing
Climate Crumbs - Talking about Food
Stories from Cash First Aberdeen
Independent Food Aid Network - Cash First Communities
How might cash first approaches be implemented in community food initiativesEmbedding Cash First Approaches
Cash First in Glasgow Community Food
Cash-First: Interim Evaluation of the Cash-First Programme Report
Charter 1.3 Cash First Update - Aberdeen City
Cash-First: Towards Ending the Need for Food Banks in Scotland - Scottish Government Report
Cash first and the Crisis and Resilience Fund - Note from Crisis Support Working Group August 2025
Cash-First approaches to supporting people facing financial hardship locally: A literature review
Cash First: Training and awareness raising resources
Promoting Cash First in Scotland
LGIU Nourishing Scotland Brief
Testing a Cash First Approach in Edinburgh
Edinburgh Food Project - The Money Advice Service
Cash First: What is Community Guiders Training?
Cash First: Reducing the need for foodbanks in Glasgow
Cash First in Community Settings - Insights from Glasgow
Cash First: Money Counts Training for Glasgow
Cash First: Glasgow Helps and NHS
Experience in North Paddington Food Bank
Forms of autonomy and dependence in food aid
Understanding journeys into and out of food insecurity
What can Community Initiatives do?
Cash First Future; Making Food Banks history
Gathering Extra 2023: Building a cash first future
Cash-first approaches to addressing food poverty
Alliance for Dignified Food Support - Ethics
Emergency Food Network Webinar - 'Moral Injury'
The Community Food National Reference Group is a partnership created between CFINE, Edinburgh Community Food, Glasgow Community Food Network and Lanarkshire Community Food and Health Partnership.
