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Welcome to Local Food
Local Food is a £57.5 million programme that distributes lottery grants to a variety of food-related projects to help make locally grown food accessible and affordable to local communities.
Local Food is now suspended to all new First Stage Applications.
*However, if you have already submitted your First Stage Application, please note that the deadline for submission of the Full Application for Small Grants is now 11th May 2012 at 5pm, and is no longer October 2012.*Local Food's Big Review
Take a look at 'Local Food's Big Review', our brand new online community which is built up entirely of Local Food projects. From farmers' markets to allotments, beekeeping to a community cafe, this inspiring landscape will give you a taster of the areas and projects where Local Food is having a positive impact.
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Latest News
The National Union of Students (NUS) has received more than £260,000 to create a network of 18 growing sites at universities and colleges across the country to try and engage students in cultivating their own affordable produce.
Maiden Lane Community Centre in Camden, London, has received a £30,000 grant from Local Food to transform its abandoned flat roof into a community fruit and vegetable garden.
Top London chefs will be taking part in a two-week celebration of nose-to-tail meat eating in May 2012. Chefs participating include the Dock Kitchen’s Stevie Parle, offal expert Anissa Helou, and food designers Blanch and Shock, as well as the Cinnamon Club, Table Café, Manson, and Nopi restaurants.
