Deadline: 13-Nov-22
The Bristol Local Food Fund is pleased to announce that the BLFF Citizens Panel participatory grantmaking scheme is now open for applications.
The Bristol Local Food Fund (BLFF) is a new fund to help community food projects fight food insecurity in their city. The Fund wants everyone to have access to good quality, affordable, culturally appropriate food regardless of their background or situation.
Bristol Local Food Fund is working in partnership with Bristol City Council, Burges Salmon, Feeding Bristol, Quartet Community Foundation and Bristol Food Network. A group of people with experience of food insecurity will be deciding which groups receive the funding.
Funding Information
- They have a pot of over £60,000 to give away.
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You can apply for either:
- A grant of up to £5,000 (approximately ten grants of this size will be awarded)
- A grant of up to £1,000 (approximately ten grants of this size will be awarded)..
What will the grants fund?
These grants can support charitable and community activities, projects and services that improve or maintain access to good quality, affordable, culturally appropriate food in the City of Bristol.
The grant can fund any cost related to the activity, including resources such as ingredients for healthy meals and equipment. It can also fund core activity costs such as rent, staff costs, volunteer expenses and transport costs.
It will prioritise supporting groups that are working on the following types of activity:
- Education activities focused on improving access to good quality nutritional food, e.g. healthy
- Eating, cooking workshops; food budgeting workshops.
- Projects that reduce food waste.
- Food growing projects.
Eligibility Criteria
- These grants are for not-for-profit organisations and community groups with charitable aims that are working to alleviate food insecurity. Applicants must be based and working in the City of Bristol.
- Whilst there is no limit to the size of the organisation that can apply, the Fund need to prioritise its funding where it can make the biggest impact. The Fund will take into account the access an applicant has to other sources of funding and whether they are offering something needed in their area.
- A small number of specific grant programmes can award grants to individuals but most of Fund’s grant programmes award grants only to organisations with charitable purposes.
- The Fund often prioritise small, local organisations whose work benefits people living in the West of England. However, national charities with a base in the area and a significant local presence can apply if the grant will benefit local people.
For more information, visit Bristol Local Food Fund.
For more information, visit https://www.bristollocalfoodfund.com/post/bristol-local-food-fund-applications-now-open