Food Scheme Grant

Guidelines

Cyngor Gwynedd has received Capital and Revenue grants to support community food and feeding schemes, with the aim to support an increasing number of people experiencing food poverty.

What?

We invite applications for grant funding towards schemes that achieve one or more of the following:

Support Food Banks
Support Feeding Schemes for vulnerable people (hot meals, meals on wheels, eating clubs, supper clubs)
Support Food Parcels / Food Package Community schemes to support vulnerable people.

Eligible items of expenditure may include the following (but this is not an exhaustive list): -

Capital - Purchase equipment for preparing, storing and distributing food
Capital - Purchase equipment to support initiatives that develop local food growing and distribution initiatives.
Capital - IT tools to facilitate agency referral systems and user contact.
Revenue - Running costs of community cafes, lunch / supper clubs, feeding schemes.
Revenue - Management, coordination and running costs (Maximum of 20% of revenue grant total)
Revenue - Training costs for volunteers
Revenue - Contribution towards helping co-locate food enterprises with other support services / community hubs