Community Food Initiatives North East (CFINE)
CFINE improves health and well-being and the environment, tackles poverty and builds resilience through a range of support and services for and with disadvantaged, vulnerable, low-income individuals, families and communities in NE Scotland.
Social enterprise, cooperative ethos
CFINE is a social enterprise committed to social, environmental and economic development and works to cooperative, or ‘Community Development’, principles which underpin and permeate the organisation and activities. CFINE’s ethos summarised:
- Equalities;
- Cooperation, Collaboration and Partnership;
- Mutuality and Reciprocity;
- Recognising that everyone has something to offer; and
- Enterprise