Aims/priorities:
Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council Public Health team, Action Together is offering investment to help the VCFSE groups provide emergency and immediate food offers, as well as investing in supporting the longer-term sustainability of our borough’s food providers.
As there are limited funds, we will be prioritising applications who are already part of our Food Solution Network or can show how they will work collaboratively with this Network going forward.
Your project must fall within one or more of the following priorities:
- Emergency FREE Food: Groups providing short-term, emergency support (for example food banks, community fridges, waste food projects or soup kitchens) which aim to relieve immediate pressure, but also offer additional support so that people don’t need to use the food bank again in the future.
- Food pantries or other membership food clubs (i.e. social supermarkets, community shops, local food hubs): Established food pantries who are softening the blow of high living costs and creating conditions for communities to grow and thrive, by bringing people together around food.
- Social Eating Projects: food projects that bring communities together and combine food with addressing root causes of food poverty (e.g. providing benefits help or debt advice)
- Food Growing Projects: initiatives to help residents and community groups to learn how to grow food
- Educational Food Projects: funding to enable community groups to find the time and space for learning and broader development around food I.e. Learn to Cook Programmes or Cooking on a Budget.
- Cultural Food Offers – projects that represent the traditions, beliefs, and practices of a geographic region, ethnic group, religious body, or cross-cultural community.
Who can apply:
You are eligible to apply for this funding if:
- you are a voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) group locally rooted or actively working in the borough of Rochdale; and
- you are a member of Action Together CIO (you can register for free to become a member here)
- you are formally constituted
- to apply for up to £5,000 you must have a turnover of less than £1,000,000
Grant amount: Grants of up to £5,000 are available
Application process:
Guidance notes - please read the guidance notes thoroughly before starting to complete the application form.
Please send your completed application form to: hayley.tomlinson@actiontogether.org.uk
Deadline: Wednesday 22 May 2024, 12pm
Please be aware before submitting your application that all projects must be complete by March 2025.
Contact information:
For more information, please either call 0161 339 2345 and ask for Hayley Tomlinson or please email: hayley.tomlinson@actiontogether.org.uk