Cash First Communities 2025 Glasgow
Opening plenary
2 – Cash First Reflections from Aberdeenshire and Glasgow
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3 – Embedding cash first in Scotland in 2025
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Morning workshops
1 – Food journeys - understanding gaps in support
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2 – Cash first, human rights and dignity - a workshop exploring the connections
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3 – Routes out of crisis - local action for national change
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4 – Effective advice - learnings from income maximisation
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Afternoon workshops
1 – Evaluating community approaches to cash first - Pathways to Advice and Cash in Scotland
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2 – Cash first in practice in Edinburgh - connecting the conversations
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3 – Community Guiders - how participation can support and improve cash first and drive anti-poverty work in our communities
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4 – What next for the Scottish Welfare Fund?
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Closing plenary session
1 – Panel: Towards a cash first UK
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2 – Final remarks
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About the conference
Cash First Communities 2025: Ending the need for charitable food aid in Scotland conference was held jointly by Trussell and IFAN in Glasgow in March 2025.
Our first successful A Cash First Future conference, in March 2023, highlighted initiatives throughout Scotland to end the need for charitable food aid with a cash first approach. Shortly afterwards, in June 2023, the Scottish Government became the first government in the UK to publish a plan towards ending the need for food banks.
In 2024, our second conference, Cash First Communities, considered how we could take the plan forward and embed and strengthen local cash first approaches to food insecurity.
Cash First Communities 2025 was attended by a diverse range of people working to reduce the need for charitable food aid in Scotland, including advice workers, local authority, food aid teams, anti-poverty charities, and civil servants.
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