What and Why?
Helping fight food inequality in Bristol
Bristol has an amazing food and drink culture, but 1 in 20 homes experience food insecurity, struggling to access enough food to eat. There are many brilliant community food projects working to tackle food insecurity, but they need funding and support.
So, you may be asking, why support Bristol Local Food Fund?
The Bristol Local Food Fund aims to tackle food insecurity by funding and supporting community food projects that are helping people most in need in our city.
The funds will be allocated by a Citizens Panel, made up of local people with lived experience of food insecurity, to ensure money will go where it is most needed.
This is a fund by the people of Bristol, helping to build a fairer food system in our city.
In November 2021, we ran a crowdfunding campaign that raised over £60,000. Over 500 people and several businesses donated to the campaign, and over 50 food & drink businesses offered rewards to encourage donations.
To decide on how the funding should be awarded, we adopted principles of participatory grantmaking (PGM) in our approach. PGM gives decision-making power about about funding to the very communities it hopes to support, and helps to bring historically excluded voices to the table, build better relationships between funders and fundseekers, and ultimately lead to more equitable decision-making and outcomes.
In Summer 2022, we recruited seven people with lived experience of food insecurity to our Citizens Panel, to discuss, design and decide on the grant-making process for Bristol Local Food Fund.
Applications for this round of the fund are open from October 4th until November 14th at 9am.
Apply to the Bristol Local Food Fund via Quartet Community Foundation website
Get involved: how to support the Bristol Local Food Fund
Watch our Crowdfunder campaign video to learn more!
Supported by these awesome businesses and many more.
Our crowdfunder campaign has finished for now, but you can still donate if you want to support bLFF.
How you can get involved
Whether you're a food business, local business or just a passionate individual, learn more about how you can get involved.
Food Business
Find out how you can support the Bristol Local Food Fund as a Bristol-based food business, through offering crowdfunding incentives, donations or social media coverage.
Individuals
Find out how you can support the Bristol Local Food Fund as an individual, by donating and increasing awareness of the project.
Local Business
Find out how you can support the Bristol Local Food Fund as a Bristol- based business, through donations, spreading the word and becoming a partner.
We ran our Crowdfunder campaign to in November 2021, but you can still donate to support the project.
Helping combat food insecurity in Bristol together