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

Cash First Approaches - GCPH Concept Explainer
Cash First Towards Ending Need - Food Banks Scotland
Cash-first in Action The Senior Centre
Cash-first in Action Love and Solidarity
Cash-first in Action Kennishead Larder and Good Food Scotland
Cash-first in Action Glasgow South East Foodbank
Cash-first in Action Barmulloch Community Development Company

Cash-first approaches to addressing food poverty
Cash First: What is Community Guiders Training and how can it be used?
Trussell Trust response to Leeds Cash-First pilot
Trussell Trust Tackling Child Poverty
Trussell Trust Hunger in the UK
The Alliance For Dignified Food Support
Webinar | Managing hunger trauma in community food support workers
Cash First approaches: reducing the need for foodbanks in Glasgow
Gathering Extra 2023: Building a cash first future - can we make food banks history in Scotland?
Promoting Cash First to solve Food Insecurity Scotland
NPFB Cash First Report 2026 Westminster
LGIU Nourishing Scotland Briefing
How the social dignity of recipients is violated and protected
Money Counts Training for Glasgow: A Cash First Approach to Food Insecurity
Cash First: Glasgow Helps, and NHS GGC’s Crisis Support in Hospitals
Emergency Food Network Webinar - Carl Walker on ‘Moral Injury’ in community food support sector
Forms of autonomy and dependence in food aid
Webinar: 'Hunger Trauma' in Food Banks & Other Community Food Projects
Edinburgh Food Project Money Advice
Cash First in Community Food Settings
Cash First Towards End ScotGov
Cash First Interim Evaluation ScotGov
Training and awareness raising resources original
Cash first and the Crisis and Resilience Fund briefing note - Cash first but not cash only
Cash first towards ending need - food banks Scotland
Cash-first interim evaluation - cash-first programme
delve Cash-first in Community Food Settings Research Report May 2024 (2)
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.


