Community food organisations are able to apply for a School summer and October Holiday Food Provision Grant of up to £5000 to support families struggling to provide food through the School Holidays.
Working in an ongoing partnership with GAVO, Newport City Council have made a grant fund available to enable Community Food Organisations to increase their provision throughout the School Holidays periods.
We are particularly keen that households with school aged children who would usually receive free school meals during term time are able to access this additional food provision.
The grant has been kept intentionally flexible and can be used for revenue or capital costs to support this additional provision.
Open to all eligible groups and organisations, we encourage applications from diverse and
under-represented communities in particular to apply for up to £5000 in total for both Holidays to cover related costs such as (but not restricted to):
· Increasing food supplies
· Increasing opening hours and related costs (staffing costs, utilities, room hire, etc)
· Additional cleaning costs/refuse removal
· Additional volunteer expenses
· Equipment/appliances/furniture to support additional provision
· Awareness raising/promotion of additional provision
Full guidance, criteria and an application form can be downloaded by clicking on the links below.
The deadline for applications is 23:55 on September 29th for the October Half-term and for projects overing both periods.
Submissions will resume at midday on October 9th and remain open until December 1st for those in the Christmas holiday period only.
If you require support to make an application or to request an offline application form, please contact Dan.Coast@Gavo.org.uk
Supporting documents
Application form
*The form will open at midday on the 13th September
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