Deadline: 23-May-2024
The Growing a Food Community in East Dunbartonshire is inviting people with a shared interest in food and a budding idea for a community food project to work together to improve access to healthy and sustainable foods by addressing food insecurity, promoting food justice, supporting sustainable food systems, building community resilience, educating and empowering and advocating for policy change.
Growing a Food Community in East Dunbartonshire is a collaboration between Greater Glasgow & Clyde NHS, East Dunbartonshire Health & Social Care Partnership, East Dunbartonshire Council and East Dunbartonshire Voluntary Action, which aims to support and develop local community food projects.
This small grant scheme is funded by NHSGGC and East Dunbartonshire Health and Social Care Partnership. The Fund is being distributed and administered by East Dunbartonshire Voluntary Action.
Aims of the Fund
- The aims of the fund are to:
- Promote better accessibility and affordability of food
- Promote good nutrition encouraging healthier eating habits and cooking skills
- Celebrate food, particularly in relation to food culture and diversity
- Enhance community spaces for cooking, eating and growing
- This will be done through:
- Developing community assets such as people, places and existing services
- Encourage partnership working and collaborative approaches
Funding Information
- Grants of up to £1,000 are available.
- There is no minimum award level.
What can be funded?
- equipment, materials and small capital costs
- one-off events
- hall and room hire, including appropriate refreshments
- participation costs
- staffing costs
- training costs
- transport
- utilities and running costs
- volunteer expenses
- safety equipment and PPE
Good Food Nation
- The Good Food Nation Plan sets out six over-arching Outcomes for Scotland to become a Good Food Nation; the range of targets and indicators that will be used to gauge progress towards achieving them; and details of a wide range of food-related policies and initiatives from across the Scottish Government.
- Applications to the fund should meet at least one of the following outcomes from the Good Food Nation Plan:
- Outcome 1: Everyone in Scotland eats well with reliable access to safe, nutritious, affordable, sustainable, and age and culturally appropriate food.
- Outcome 3: Scotland’s food system encourages a physically and mentally healthy population, leading to a reduction in diet-related conditions.
- Outcome 5: Scotland has a thriving food culture with a population who are interested in and educated about good and sustainable food.
Eligibility Criteria
- This Small Grants Fund is designed to support community-based organisations operating in East Dunbartonshire; the Fund can support both existing and new projects.
- It is expected that the majority of applications will come from groups which are already operating to some extent, who have some infrastructure in place, or who can demonstrate the benefits of developing a new project. Applications can be accepted from a range of voluntary ‘not for profit’ organisations, associations, groups and clubs or consortiums/partnerships which have a strong community focus for their activities.
- The range of organisations that can apply are:
- Unincorporated Associations
- Registered Charities
- Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisations (SCIO)
- Not-for-profit company or asset locked company or Community Interest Companies (CIC)
- Companies Limited by Guarantee
- Trusts
- Cooperative and Community Benefit Societies
- Community councils
- Parent Councils
- Un-constituted Groups
- Please Note:
- Un-constituted Groups- can apply for support to set up and for capacity building purposes. EDVA as grant administrator would require to be satisfied with arrangements in terms of assurance around monitoring and accountability of spend; this may include a constituted entity (that meets criteria above) holding a grant for unconstituted groups as well as supporting groups to become constituted.
- National organisations- can apply however they must demonstrate how they can provide specific community-based activity in East Dunbartonshire
Ineligible
- The Fund will not support applications for:
- contingency costs, loans, endowments or interest payments
- political or religious campaigning
- profit-making or fundraising activities
- VAT which can be reclaimed
- statutory activities
- overseas travel
- alcoholic beverages and other harmful substances (e.g. tobacco)
For more information, visit East Dunbartonshire Voluntary Action.