Food for Life Get Togethers

Aims/priorities: Funding is being made available through Food for Life Get Together initiative with the aim of using good food to connect and bring together people of all ages and from different backgrounds.  We welcome applications which have a focus on one or more of the following:

• Food activity that has potential to be long term and become a normal and regular activity your community just does
• Food based activity that is community led and created together with the people and communities who will benefit
• Food activity which includes people and groups from disadvantaged and diverse communities 
• Activity that brings people, households, streets, neighbourhoods & communities together through food
• 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 backgrounds different to their own
• Online and virtual ways to meaningfully Get Together through good food, cooking, growing or sharing 

Who can apply? Not for profit groups and settings such as local community groups, nurseries, schools, care homes, housing associations, and charities,

Grant amount: up to £150

Application process: Application available to download from website

Deadline:  There will be three funding rounds during 2020 and the closing date for round 1 applications is the 10 July 2020.

Website address:  www.foodforlife.org.uk/get-togethers/get-involved/small-grants