National Lottery Community Fund: Climate Action Fund - Food Systems

he National Lottery Community Fund has opened applications to its Climate Action Fund – Food Systems, offering funding of up to £7 million for partnership projects that aim to strengthen the UK’s food systems and reduce food insecurity. 

The funding will support long-term projects that increase access to healthy, affordable food in environmentally sustainable ways. 

It will do this by supporting projects that:  

• work with nature to create resilient, sustainable and equitable food systems (this is called agroecology)  
• address the root cause of long-term problems, not just the symptoms (this is called systems change)  

Projects must work towards systems change in the way that:   

• community organisations grow and produce food – using agroecological methods  
• food gets distributed – aiming for equitable access to healthy, affordable food for all  
• offers people and communities different food options – especially those experiencing poverty, disadvantage or discrimination