Community Food and Health, Scotland, has announced that its small grants scheme is now open for applications. Under the scheme, Grants from £500 to £3000 are available to organisations involved in working with or within Scotland''s low-income communities to improve access to and take up of a healthy, varied and balanced diet. 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; the lack of access to fruit and vegetables of an acceptable quality and cost; the cost of getting to the shops as well as the cost of shopping; the lack of confidence and skills for cooking or shopping; and tackling 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. We also accept applications for pilot projects or feasibility studies.
Priority will be given to applications that show that they will be able to sustain their food activity or learning from their food activity in the future.

The closing date for applications is the 27th June 2008.

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