Deadline: 11-Sep-20
Food for Life is inviting applications for its 2020 Small Grant program, that bring people of all ages and from different backgrounds together to strengthen and connect communities through one or more of food growing, cooking and food sharing.
Focus Areas
Strong applications may also have a focus on one or more of the following:-
- Food activity that has potential to be long term and become a normal or regular thing your community does
- Activity that brings people, households, streets, neighbourhoods & communities together through food
- Food activity which includes people and groups from disadvantaged and diverse communities
- Food activity which tackles or reduces experience of loneliness or social isolation for younger and older people in your community
- Food activity which encourages people to have a more positive attitude to ageing and/or people from diverse backgrounds
- Food based activity that is created together with the people and communities who will benefit.
Funding Information
- Food for Life is offering small grants of £150 to enable you to host a good food Get Together in your community.
Applications for funding are welcomed from the following areas
- Birmingham, Stoke on Trent, Walsall
- Leicester City, Leicestershire, Nottingham City
- Hull, Calderdale, Kirklees, Sheffield
- Rochdale, Salford, Wigan
- Betsi Cadwaladr, Aneuran Bevan, Cardiff and Vale
- Belfast, Fermanagh and Omagh District, Newry, Mourne and Down District
- Glasgow, Inverclyde, Edinburgh
Eligibility Criteria
- The grant is open to not-for-profit groups and settings including, but not limited to; local community groups, nurseries, schools, care homes, community health and social care settings, housing associations, charities. Community groups must have a bank account in the group’s name. Food for Life Get Togethers should be representative of diverse communities, so you will need to consider this when planning your activity or gathering and when applying for the grant.
- If you want to have a Get Together with people from households or your neighbourhood you will need to apply for the grant through a formalised not-for-profit group that has its own bank account.
- The number of grants is limited and due to the number of applications they may receive, reserve the right to close the application round early.
- There will be a focus on awarding grants to groups and organisations in the Food for Life Get Togethers ‘test and learn regions’ who may experience social and economic disadvantage. A map of eligible areas is shown in the terms and conditions section of this document.
For more information, visit https://www.foodforlife.org.uk/get-togethers/get-involved/small-grants
