What is the funding for?
All applications must involve working with or within Scotland’s low-income communities to improve access to and take up of a healthy, varied and balanced diet.

All applications must tackle one or more of the barriers to healthy eating that were first outlined in the Scottish Diet Action Plan (1996). These are:

* Availability - such as the lack of access to fruit and vegetables of an acceptable quality and cost
* Affordability - such as the cost of getting to the shops as well as the cost of shopping
* Skills - such as the lack of confidence and skills for cooking or shopping
* Culture - such as long established dietary habits and reluctance to experiment with new foods

All applications must be for the costs of a new food activity or for developing the range, scale or sustainability of current food activity. We also accept applications for pilot projects or feasibility studies.

We will give priority to applications that show that they will be able to sustain their food activity or learning from their food activity in the future. We will also prioritise applications that show that their intended food activity is needed and wanted by those who will take part in it.

How much money is available?
£500 to £4000

Who can apply?
A wide range of groups and agencies working with or within low-income communities particularly community groups, voluntary organisations and social enterprises. They will give priority to those groups or agencies linked to or working (or planning to work) in partnership with other agencies or whose planned project is part of a local plan or strategy, such as Food and Health Strategies, Joint Health Improvement Plans, etc. Partnerships could include groups such as: Community Planning, Community Health Partnerships or other groups appropriate to the applicant’s organisation.

When to apply
The small grant scheme opens in the spring and closes in the early summer.

The 2010 small grant scheme will open on 29th April 2010 and close on 9th July 2010..

How to apply
All the information you need including applications forms and guidance notes can be found on the website.

Contact details: Community Food and Health (Scotland)

c/o Consumer Focus Scotland
Royal Exchange House
100 Queen Street, Glasgow G1 3DN
Telephone: (00 44) 0141 226 5261

Email: cfh@consumerfocus.org.uk

Key words: community, health, food, welfare