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Funding for Community Based Food Initiatives (UK)

Not for profit groups and settings such as local community groups, nurseries, schools, care homes, community health and social care settings, housing associations, and charities can apply for grants of up to £150 to use good food to connect and bring together people of all ages and from different backgrounds.

The funding is being made available through Food for Life Get Together initiative and the aim is to get more people eating healthily, strengthen communities and reduce experience of loneliness and social isolation.

The funding is available in specific areas of the UK.  These are:

  • England: Birmingham, Stoke on Trent, Walsall, Leicester City, Leicestershire, Nottingham City, Hull, Calderdale, Kirklees, Sheffield, Rochdale, Salford, Wigan
  • Wales: Cardiff and Vale, Aneurin Bevan Health Board area, Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board area
  • Northern Ireland: Belfast, Fermanagh & Omagh, Newry, Mourne & Down Council
  • Scotland: Glasgow, Inverclyde, Edinburgh

There will be three funding rounds during 2021 and the closing date for the final round is 5.30 pm on the 30th April 2021.

 

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Application Form and Guidance

15th March 2021