Community based groups and agencies working towards improving the diets of people within low-income communities have the opportunity of applying for funding of between £500 and £3,000 through the Community Food and Health (Scotland) Small Grants Scheme.

All applications must tackle one or more of the barriers to healthy eating that were first outlined in the Scottish Diet Action Plan (1996). These are; lack of access to fruit and vegetables of an acceptable quality and cost; the cost of shopping; the lack of confidence and skills for cooking or shopping; challenging long established dietary habits and reluctance to experiment with new foods. All applications must be for the costs of a new food activity or
for developing the range, scale or sustainability of current food activity. Applications are also accepted for pilot projects or feasibility studies.

The small grant scheme opens in the spring and closes in the early summer. Previous projects supported include Burnfoot Community School which received a grant of £840 for three healthy eating projects for young children and their parents; and the Homeless Implementation Group which received a grant of £2,001 to provide monthly cooking skills sessions within homeless hostels.

http://www.communityfoodandhealth.org.uk/funding/smallgrants.php