Aims/priorities:
Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council Public Health team, Action Together is offering investment to help the VCFSE groups provide emergency and immediate food offers, as well as investing in supporting the longer-term sustainability of our borough’s food providers.
The fund priorities have been co-produced by a group of representatives from the Anti-Poverty Network, Welfare Advice Forum, Food Solutions Forum, Ethnic Communities Network and the Digital Inclusion Forum.
Your project must fall within one or more of the following priorities:
1. Emergency Free Food: Providing short-term, emergency support which aim to relieve immediate need for food, such as foodbanks, waste food projects, soup kitchens and community fridges.
2. Supporting People Out of Poverty: Creating routes out of poverty and giving people access to affordable food. For example food pantries, pay-it-forward pantries and co-operative food buying schemes.
3. Sustainable Access to Healthy Food: Projects that bring people together to eat, cook or grow healthy and sustainable food. For example growing projects, educational food projects and social eating projects.
4. Making Emergency Food Accessible: Addressing barriers to making food offers accessible to people from different communities, such as providing culturally appropriate food or enabling home delivery of emergency food to people who can’t attend foodbanks or pantries.
Who can apply:
- you are a voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) group locally rooted or actively working in the borough of Rochdale; and
- you are a member of Action Together CIO (you can register for free to become a member here)
- you are formally constituted.
Grant amount:
Grants of up to £5,000 or up to £10,000 are available
For up to £5000: For grants of up to £5000 we can fund new projects within the Rochdale Borough, where a strong need is demonstrated and evidenced.
For up to £10,000: Grants of up to £10,000 are for strengthening ongoing, established food projects being delivered within the Rochdale Borough.
As the Household Support Fund is a time limited government fund, projects need to be no longer than 6 months and completed by June 2025.
Application process:
Please read the guidance notes below thoroughly before completing the application form.
Food Solutions Round 3 - Guidance notes.docx (91.21 KB)Rochdale Communities Fund - Food Solutions - Grants Application Form .docx (62.79 KB)
Deadline: Sunday 17th November 2024
Contact information:
For more information, please either call 0161 339 2345 and ask for Hayley Tomlinson or please email: hayley.tomlinson@actiontogether.org.uk