The Food Partnership administers the Good Food Grants on behalf of NHS Brighton & Hove. Good Food Grants is a funding programme that awards small grants for projects in schools and community settings that that aim to improve the health, skills and confidence of local residents though healthy eating, increased cookery skills and/or food growing.

Good Food Grants 2012 has now closed for applications. Community organisations and schools were invited to apply for grants of up to £1000 for food projects in Brighton & Hove. The deadline for applications was Friday 10 February 2012. Grants will be awarded by 30 March 2012 and must be used for work that takes place between 1 April 2012 – 31 March 2013.

Good Food Grants is now in its 6th year. Over the last 5 years it has supported 137 projects around the city (read about last year's grant recipients here). Grants are available for core running costs like insurance and volunteer expenses or for the costs of running a specific project. You can apply for funding for a new project or for work that is ongoing.

If your group is looking for funding for a food project you may be interested in downloading our bi-monthly funding update which contains a list of local and national funders suitable for food projects.

Good Food Grants recipients for projects in 2011-2012

The following 34 projects received funding this year:

Bevendean Community Garden: funding for a shed and tools for the new community garden space used by local residents to grow food, learn and share produce.

Brighton and Hove Speak Out: funding to establish a Food Advocacy Group that aims to develop skills and knowledge around healthy eating and cooking for people with mild learning difficulties.

Brighton and Hove Youth Offending Service: funding to provide cooking and nutrition education courses for young people and their families who have come into contact with the youth justice system.

Brighton Oasis Project: funding to continue with the project’s Healthy Eating Initiative. Sessions will be run for women with substance misuse problems to improve knowledge around healthy eating, buying local produce and shopping on a budget.

Carers Garden: funding to install a beehive, bees and buy beekeeping equipment for a community allotment used by carers.

Coldean Youth Project: funding to continue with the project’s weekly cookery sessions run for young people aged 9 -16 in the Coldean area.

Craven Vale Children's Garden Group: funding to extend the group’s existing fruit and vegetable growing space and set up a gardening club for local children and their families. Read our case study.

Crew Club: funding to run a new scheme called ‘Good Food Now!’ which will provide creative healthy cooking sessions for young people aged 11-16 in Whitehawk.

Early Explorers Limited: funding to establish a vegetable garden at Early Explorers pre-school which will be used as a teaching facility and also provide healthy snacks for the children.

Fork & Dig It: funding for a 3 month project which will investigate the viability of setting up a Community Supported Agriculture scheme in the east of Brighton.

Friendship Lunches: funding to upgrade the cooking facilities at the Ascension Church in Westdene to run a monthly lunch club for isolated elderly people in the area.

Hamilton Lodge School: funding to purchase compost, seeds and fruit trees for a new on-site vegetable garden which will be used to run weekly gardening sessions for the school’s deaf students. Read our case study.

Hollingbury Residents Association (Hollingberries 50+ Group): funding to run cookery sessions for people aged over 50 in Hollingbury. Attendees will learn how to cook simple, healthy meals and how to make healthier and more local shopping choices.

Hove Methodist Church: funding to run cookery sessions for people in the West Hove area who are aged over 60 and living alone. The classes will focus on cooking on a budget, healthy alternatives to fast food, reducing food waste and cooking for one.

MindOut: funding for equipment, seeds and plants for MindOut’s community allotment run by mental health service users who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. Read our case study.

Moulsecoomb Primary School: funding to continue the school’s existing afterschool cookery club which focuses on cooking simple, healthy snacks, often using produce from the on-site fruit and vegetable patches.

New Larchwood Residential Cafe: funding to provide food hygiene training and buy kitchen equipment at the assisted living complex. The cafe hosts an evening supper club for residents which uses produce grown on residents’ allotments.

Nourish CIC: funding to build an outdoor clay oven which will be used for pick and eat educational sessions for mental health service users on the farm.

Phoenix Community Centre: funding to run trips for children to local food producers and upgrade the kitchen facilities at the community centre so follow-up cookery workshops can be held.

Phoenix Futures, Brighton Family Service: funding to organise a trip to a farmers market and run healthy eating and cookery sessions for parents and their children at the residential rehabilitation service.

Plot 22: funding for this community allotment’s core costs. The plot is run as an educational facility for different groups in Brighton & Hove and aims to increase access for local people of all ages and backgrounds to growing, eating and celebrating seasonal food.

Portslade Village Centre: funding to buy extra kitchen equipment to continue the development of the kitchen for its use as a community resource and teaching facility.

Prestonville Community Association: funding to establish a food growing space for the local community and provide a meeting space for arts and crafts workshops and social events.

Sierra Leone Brighton Association (Women's Group): funding for the group who cater at community celebrations to run food safety education and cookery sessions on European and Sierra Leonean cuisine.

Somerhill Junior School: funding for new tools and a composting area at the school’s existing on-site fruit and vegetable growing spaces. The school also plans to expand the summer plant sale into a market where parents can bring surplus allotment produce.

St Luke's Primary School: funding for new plants and bulbs to expand the school’s established food forest.

St Mark's CofE Primary School: funding for gardeners from the Whitehawk Community Food Project to plan and run educational activities at the school’s allotment and to train other community leaders.

Stopover Supported Housing Project - Impact Initiatives: funding to develop the existing fruit and vegetable growing space on-site at the supported accommodation for young women who are homeless or insecurely housed.

Synergy Creative Community: funding to start a community kitchen and weekly lunch club for people with mental health issues.

Tarnerland Children and Young People's Project: funding for food growing and healthy cooking training sessions for young people aged 12-26 to run after school or during the holidays.

The Men's Network: funding to train 10 male community leaders to run community cooking events for men and boys.

Wellend Villas Growers: funding to involve more residents in the community growing group based in a housing association development. The group plans to install more planters for vegetable growing, rainwater collection and a wormery for food waste.

Wish Park Residents Association: funding to establish a new community food garden in Wish Park with growing spaces, composting area and educational applications.

Youth Action Sussex: funding to continue providing seasonal visits to Moulsecoomb Forest Garden for young refugees and asylum seekers on the Rasp befriending scheme.