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Celebrating Our Bristol Local Food Fund Grant 🎉💚

We are absolutely delighted to share the wonderful news that we have been chosen to receive funding from the Bristol Local Food Fund (BLFF). We are deeply grateful for this support, which will help us continue our mission to make a real difference in our community.

Community-Led Grantmaking

What makes this funding especially meaningful is that the projects receiving grants were chosen by a citizens' panel of Bristolians with lived experience of food insecurity. This approach, called participatory grantmaking, empowers communities by giving them decision-making power over where the funds go. We’re so proud to be part of such an inclusive and community-driven initiative!

BLFF’s founder, Michael Lloyd-Jones, highlighted just how vital this support is for local projects like ours, stating, “The funding is a lifeline for community food projects that are making a real difference on the ground.”

Funding for Food Justice

The latest round of BLFF funding raised an incredible £100,000 through the Anti Banquet event, held earlier this year at Ashton Gate. This impressive sum has been distributed among several inspiring local projects, all working toward promoting food justice and tackling food insecurity.

Some of the incredible projects funded include:

  • All Saints Parish Church

  • Black Mothers Matter

  • Borderlands

  • Bristol Horn Youth Concern

  • Bristol North West Foodbank

  • Bristol Somali Youth Voice

  • Caring in Bristol

  • Heart of BS13

  • Hillfields Community Garden

  • Incredible Kids

  • Inns Court Community Centre (The Mede)

  • Knowle West Media Centre

  • Project Mama

  • Redcatch Community Garden (That's us!)

  • St Luke’s Church

  • Sims Hill Shared Harvest

  • Travelling Kitchen

  • Wellspring Settlement

  • Windmill Hill City Farm

Each of these groups, including ours, is working tirelessly to support our city’s food needs, ensuring that everyone has access to healthy, affordable and culturally appropriate food.

Once again, a huge thank you to the Bristol Local Food Fund and to all those involved in this participatory grantmaking process. We are honoured to be among such fantastic company, working toward a future where everyone has access to the food they need.


Read more on this via the Bristol Live website.


Our lovely Jude, Karen and Margaret at our free weekly Community Lunch!

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