Funding Support

Small Grants Avalilable - closing Date 23rd of May 2024

Growing a Food Community in East Dunbartonshire is inviting people with a shared interest in food and a budding idea for a community food project to work together to improve access to healthy and sustainable foods by addressing food insecurity, promoting food justice, supporting sustainable food systems, building community resilience, educating and empowering and advocating for policy change.

This Small Grants Fund is designed to support community-based organisations operating in East Dunbartonshire; the Fund can support both existing and new projects. 

Applicants are strongly advised to have read the Fund guidance notes prior to completing the application.

The aims of the fund are to:

  • Promote better accessibility and affordability of food

  • Promote good nutrition encouraging healthier eating habits and cooking skills

  • Celebrate food, particularly in relation to food culture and diversity

  • Enhance community spaces for cooking, eating and growing

Read Guidance HERE

The small grants scheme is open from Thursday the 25th of April 2024 and will close at 2pm on Thursday the 23rd of May 2024.

Apply HERE

Successful applicants will be notified by award letters no later than 14th of June 2024.

Following this; successful applicants will be required to provide a copy of a recent bank statement and a copy of the most recent signed accounts prior to payment being made by EDVA.

Project activity should commence from June/July 2024 with the majority of the work completed by the 31st of March 2025.

This small grants scheme is funded by NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde and East Dunbartonshire Health & Social Care Partnership. The Fund is being distributed and administered by East Dunbartonshire Voluntary Action.

Social Enterprise Support Programme will open on the

 13th May 2024 and will close on the 17th of June 2024

  • Boosting community cohesion, through investments that build on existing and new Social Enterprises, offer a range of support for young social enterprise businesses.

  • Promoting networking and collaboration, through interventions that bring together Social Enterprise businesses and partners within and across sectors to share knowledge, expertise, resources, helping to stimulate innovation and growth.

  • Increasing investment in growth-enhancing activities, through targeted support for small and medium-sized social enterprise businesses to undertake new-to-firm innovation, adopt productivity-enhancing, energy efficient and low carbon technologies, and techniques. Strengthening local entrepreneurial ecosystems. Increase in number of potential entrepreneurs providing assistance to be business ready. Number of new social enterprise businesses created.

 Eligibility

Applications must meet the following eligibility criteria: 

  • The applicant is aged 16 or over. 

  • The enterprise operates primarily for the benefit of people or communities within East Dunbartonshire 

  • The enterprise is an independent organisation and not the project or subsidiary of an existing body. 

  • The enterprise aims to provide direct social impact to individuals, communities and/or the environment within East Dunbartonshire. 

  • If the enterprise requires premises to start trading, the applicant must have identified a property and be able to confirm an agreement in principle.

  • The Enterprise must show a clear social impact– You must identify the social or environmental issue you want to tackle. You must tell us how you will make a direct, positive impact and measure the difference you are making.

  • Your social enterprise will reinvest its profits into the business and its social aims. No private individuals or bodies benefit from the assets or uncapped dividends of the business.

  • The enterprise and its activities do not involve political campaigning or the advancement of religion. 

Read Guidance HERE

Applications will be open from the 13th on May on this page

For Support Contact Luke Emerton, Joni Mitchell or Graham Branscombe

Check out the links below to view the funding opportunities available you can also view more at Funding Scotland

Easyfundraising – unrestricted funding for third sector organisations

It’s free to register and use and is open to voluntary organisations, social enterprises, CICs etc of all shape and size.

You don’t need to be a charity. And the funds you raise class as unrestricted so you can use then as you wish.

Complete the free Online Registration Here