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• Local Food
  • Themes
  • Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts
  • The Local Food Consortium

Local Food

Feeding the growth of local communities

Local Food is a £50 million programme that will distribute grants to a variety of food-related projects which will help make locally grown food accessible to local communities.

Local Food has been developed by a consortium of organisations and is managed on their behalf by the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (RSWT). The programme will run until December 2014, with all projects having to be completed by March 2014.

Themes

Local Food has five main themes under which a range of projects can be supported:

Growing food locally

Allowing people the opportunity to grow food locally

Celebrating cultural diversity

Enabling communities to build knowledge and understanding of the cultural diversity of food

Social enterprise

Stimulating local economic activity through the development of social enterprises related to local food

Skills and learning

Creating opportunities for learning through volunteering, training and job creation

Healthy eating, healthy living

Promoting awareness of the links between food and healthy lifestyles.

Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (RSWT)

As well as operating at a national level to support the work of the 47 local Wildlife Trusts, RSWT has a dedicated Grants Unit that manages several different funds, covering a broad environmental theme. The Unit does this on behalf of other organisations, such as the Big Lottery Fund and Biffa Waste Services.

The Local Food Consortium

Full list of partners can be found here.