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 are 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
Two years ago, fifty schools embarked on a journey to create traditional orchards and were able to plant their first trees in the final months of 2011.
Local Food funded project, The Real Bread Campaign this week launched a new scheme to encourage children to grow their own bread with the help of celebrity baker, Tom Herbert from Channel 4’s ‘The Fabulous Baker Brothers’.
If you like the sound of affordable, local, sustainable food available near your home, your workplace or your children's school then you may have already discovered Love Local Food.
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