
Over the summer, Co-op customers across the UK raised £1.5m to help those going hungry by buying items from their picnic range, with 20p per item being donated to the National Emergencies Trust (NET). As NETs official partner in Scotland, we are distributing a percentage of these funds to programmes in Scotland that provide access to food and sustainable solutions to food poverty.
The Co-op Food Fund aims to support organisations or projects that provide access to food and sustainable solutions to food poverty in Scotland.
- Easy access to nutritious food and balanced means to those on a limited budget
- Education and learning on low cost meal solutions, limiting food waste and shopping smartly
- Support to future generations by prioritising the wellbeing of children and young people struggling with food insecurity
- Provide locally delivered food programmes for vulnerable communities and which help address food insecurity and its impacts
Grants between £1,000 and 5,000 are available
Examples of Projects
The types of programmes that this funding could support are, but not limited to:
- Foodbanks
- Programmes that tackle food waste
- Programmes that encourage healthy eating
- Holiday hunger schemes
Who Can Apply?
- Only constituted groups, with a governing document, can apply
- A bank account must be set up in the name of the group
- All appointed cheque signatories must be unrelated, and there must be at least 2.
- There must be at least 3 unrelated members on your management committee
- The majority of your committee members must be unrelated.
- Committee meetings must have a quorum of at least 3 unrelated members present
Please note that funding can only support projects which commence after 21st December.
Application deadline: 12 noon on Friday 13th November 2020.
This programme may close earlier than the stated deadline should we receive a high volume of applications, therefore we advise you to apply as soon as you can.
Please note that if your project starts before the 21st December 2020, then you cannot apply. Please note that successful applicants must be able to spend all of the funding by no later than 1st July 2021