Food Fairness Grant Scheme
The Food Fairness Grant Scheme is designed to enable voluntary, community, social enterprises and other organisations to work to create a healthier and more sustainable food environment for the long term in Central Bedfordshire. Ensuring residents particularly those facing hardship have access to healthy affordable food is a critical component of our work to deliver fairness.
In April 2024 we held a ‘Food Summit’ where over 50 colleagues from local voluntary / community sector organisations, as well as councillors, came together to share their experiences and insight when helping people to access healthy food. The feedback from the Summit identified key areas of intervention which would directly help people in hardship to access affordable healthy food.
Grants are available to support local groups and new initiatives to tackle food insecurity and strengthen the skills and infrastructure around healthy, affordable food in the longer term.
You must read the applicant guidance notes (PDF) prior to applying.
How to apply
To apply, please download the application form (Word), complete it and email to community.grants@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk, along with any supporting documents.
Please note: Email is not a secure medium. Please take appropriate steps to protect any personal information.
For any questions, please email community.grants@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk
The grant scheme is open for applications from midday Wednesday 30 October and will close for applications at midday on 9 December 2024.
We will hold a ‘Meet the Funder’ session on Wednesday 13 November, 6pm until 7pm, for organisations considering submitting an application. The session will be online via Microsoft Teams. If you would like to attend, please confirm a place by emailing community.grants@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk with your name, organisation and contact details.