CFINE

A huge thank you to Tesco Danestone for their £300 donation to CFINE!

The donation went allowed us to buy a range of food including tinned meat, tinned fish, sauces and more.
The food collected from Tesco by our team will go directly to support families across Aberdeen that use our Community Pantry.

Our Pantry offers Aberdeen City Residents access to affordable and healthy, foods, toiletries, and baby products at a low cost.
You can find out more about our Pantry on our website!

📣JOIN OUR TEAM! 📣

CFINE’s SAFE Team are currently recruiting for a SAFE Team Outreach Advisor.

The primary focus of this role is the provision of financial capability support to individuals across the communities on an outreach basis. This will involve attending locations across Aberdeen alongside the mobile pantry and locating in outreach settings to provide SAFE support to local residents.

- Fixed Term until 31st March 2027
- 36.25 Hours per week
- Based at CFINE, 2-4 Poynernook Road, Aberdeen AB11 5RW and Outreach locations across Aberdeen.

Find out more on our website: https://www.cfine.org/safe-team-outreach-advisor-2026

To receive an full job description and application form please contact Sarah [email protected].
Applications will close on Friday 3rd July at 5pm.
Please do not enquire through social media.

Today CFINE’s staff and volunteers dressed up in blue and tartan to show their support for Scotland’s return to the World Cup!

Good luck to everyone staying up to watch the match against Haiti⚽

Let’s go Scotland!!! 🥳

Aberdeen Inspired

Next weekend Sam, CFINE’s Senior Operations and Development Manager will be taking part in Saltire24! 🏃‍♀️‍➡️

This year will be Sam’s fifth year competing in the race but the first time doing it solo and not part of a team. She is taking on the challenge on June 21st and hoping to complete as many 4.2-mile laps as she can within 24 hours.

Sam is attempting to raise £1,000 for CFINE! All money raised through her fundraiser will go to support the growing demand on CFINE’s services.

There is still time to donate Sam’s fundraiser – donate today!

Find out more and support Sam’s fundraiser here:
https://www.justgiving.com/page/sam-leys-4

Saltire24

A huge thank you to Aberdeen Touch Rugby for organising a food drive on behalf of CFINE! 🏉

Last week Aberdeen Touch Rugby organised a food drive for CFINE after seeing our urgent call for food donations. They managed to collect 200kg worth of donations that can be used in our emergency food parcels.

Thank you to everyone who attended the match and brought along donations!

If you are interested in donating to CFINE you can find out more on our website 👇
https://www.cfine.org/get-involved/donate-food

This weekend Pam is taking on the Kiltwalk for CFINE! 🚶‍♀️‍➡️

Pam, a member of our SAFE Team is taking on the Aberdeen Kiltwalk to raise money for CFINE!
She will be taking on the challenge and walking 18 miles from Banchory to Duthie Park.

CFINE’s Safe Team provide benefits and budgeting advice to people across Aberdeen City. The team work with a person centric approach to help people navigate the welfare system and improve their household income.

Donate to Pam’s fundraiser here 👇
https://www.justgiving.com/page/pam-findlay-1

You can find out more about the SAFE Team on our website: https://www.cfine.org/get-support/improving-finances

In May, members from four lived experience groups in Aberdeen came together for a shared learning and connection event organised by the Homewards Aberdeen Experts Through Experience Panel, co-hosted with the CFINE Lived Experience Group, with guests from Yahya’s Hub emerging Young Leaders Panel and the NRNE Partnership Lived Experience Group.

The event was facilitated using the Go Deep Game methodology, a participatory and creative approach designed to encourage dialogue, trust building, reflection, and collective thinking.

Thank you to everyone for attending a successful, fun, and engaging session!

🌟CFINE celebrates Volunteers Week 2026! 🌟

This week is Volunteers Week!
Our volunteers are at the heart of CFINE, without them the work we do wouldn’t be possible.
Last month 105 volunteers contributed 4,274 hours across all areas of CFINE. Including working in our warehouses, driving vans, in our pantry, helping with admin and working at the Fruitmart in Peterhead.

To celebrate Volunteers Week at CFINE we have planned a few activities across the week for our volunteers.
Yesterday Angus and Kian hosted a quiz, with our volunteers competing in teams for first place. Congratulations to the winning teams! 🏆

A huge thank you to all of our volunteers!

Last week CFINE hosted its first Community Meal! 🍴

This Community Meal gave people a chance to meet new people, eat delicious food and learn more about the benefits of home cooking. This is the first event in a series of Community Meals hosted by CFINE that will bring members of our community together to enjoy a warm meal and chat about different topics.

The meal was well attended with attendees enjoying a two-course meal of steak pie, potatoes, veg and honey sponge cake with yogurt. The ingredients for the meal where sourced from surplus food that was redistributed by FareShare and then prepared in our Community Training Kitchen. This helps to reduce the environmental impact of food waste by preventing edible food from going to landfill.

The theme for the next Community Meal will be Community Growing. Highlighting the health, environmental and mental benefits of growing your own food. Keep an eye out on our social media for more information on this.

📣 We would love to hear your ideas for the themes of our future Community Meals! Please let us know your ideas in the comments.📣

Granite City Good Food

A huge congratulations to Marla! 🏃‍♀️‍➡️

Last week Marla, one of our volunteers, was in Edinburgh battling with the heat to complete her first ever marathon alongside her dad Angus.

Marla smashed her fundraising target and has raised an incredible £787 for CFINE!

Thank you Marla! 💚