The application deadline for the Warwickshire Kind Communities Kind Food Grant fund has now passed, and we look forward to announcing the successful recipients and how they will be using the grant fund to support local community projects later this year.
The Warwickshire Kind Communities Kind Food grant aims to support local projects across the county that empower communities to make more affordable, healthy, and sustainable food choices.
The Kind Communities Kind Food Grant provided a total of £25,000 funding to support food projects across the county, and applicants were able to apply for up to £1,000 per project. Each project also had to demonstrate how it would support at least one of the following Food Strategy priorities:
- Education and choice - provide knowledge and awareness to help people implement more nutritious and healthier diets; for example, about meal preparation, how to correctly store food, healthy recipes, or what nutrients and health benefits can be found from eating different types of food.
- Improving food affordability and access - help residents to access more affordable, local, or healthier food choices, and in this way contribute to a reduction in food insecurity.
- Sustainable choices - encourage or provide locally sourced food options to help with a reduction in Warwickshire of ‘food miles’, or support the reduction and recycling of food waste.
Further information about the successful projects that will receive support from the grant fund will be announced in 2024.