Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Council Community Development Good Relations
Expression of Interest (EoI) for ABC Community Organisations to share food produce with the established Food Provision Social Supermarket Partner through the Social Supermarket and Wraparound Service Grow to Give Pilot Project Grant 2023
G2G 2023
Scheme now open Tuesday 25 April and closes 12 noon on Tuesday 9 May 2023.
Background
- The Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Council (ABC Council) is committed to supporting and developing the ‘food and beyond’ support structure of the Social Supermarket Infrastructure.
- The Social Supermarket and Wraparound Service Model suggests a pathway through the financial distress journey by offering personal dignity, development and progression, addressing food insecurity and causes and greater access to sustainability of nutritional food and wraparound support services.
- Council will seek to allocate a minimum of one award per Food Provision Social Supermarket Partner.
Grow to Give Pilot Project Grant 2023
The Social Supermarket and Wraparound Service Grow to Give Pilot Project Grant 2023 (G2G 2023) is designed to promote co-design and collaborative support of the community led approved environmental food supply chain network; by the growing/producing of products/available stock to be given into an established Food Provision Social Supermarket Partner being; 1. Armagh Foodbank, 2.The Storehouse Banbridge, 3. Craigavon Foodbank, 4.Via Wings Dromore, 5. ABC Food Hub, 6. St Vincent de Paul and 7. The Salvation Army.
The Grow to Give Project is a flexible and responsive food intervention supply, to those most vulnerable in the Borough, through a maximum fund of £5000 to a minimum of 10 suitably qualified ABC Community Organisations who have obtained collaboration from the established Food Provision Social Supermarket Partner to co-create a food supply chain project and become a food producer partner.
The project encourages and is reflective of community ‘creative and adaptable’ food support alignments and other additional benefits with the established Food Provision Social Supermarket Partner.
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