Welcome to Local Food
Local Food is a £50 million programme that will distribute lottery grants to a variety of food-related projects to help make locally grown food accessible and affordable to local communities.
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Latest News
Lottery boost for Clifton community garden Nov 23, 2009
Manor Oaks Farm Enterprise Oct 12, 2009
An award winning social enterprise is bringing a touch of rural life back to inner city Sheffield by transforming eight acres (3.2 hectares) of land into an urban farm. Green Estate, are working towards improving the open spaces of the deprived wards of Manor, Castle and Woodthorpe.
Sowing Seeds Oct 12, 2009
Sowing Seeds’ is a holistic project in London that integrates weekly gardening lessons with the provision of related recipe and nutrition cards to refugees. It is a new allotment-based project which builds on the success of healthy eating classes delivered by the Refugee Council since January 2008.
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Big Lottery Fund
Local Food is part of the Big Lottery Fund’s Changing Spaces programme which was launched in November 2005 to help communities enjoy and improve their local environments. The programme funds a range of activities from local food schemes and farmers markets, to education projects teaching people about the local environment.
For more information visit www.biglotteryfund.org.uk
Changing Spaces Advice Line
Tel: 0845 3 671 671