Grants open for community food growing projects

Community groups and voluntary organisations are invited to apply to the Energia Get Ireland Growing and GIY fund 2019, which has a €75,000 pool of funding.

Applications close on 18 January 2019 for the grants, which will enable them to start or further develop a community food-growing project in their area.

The fund will be split across three categories, ‘Sow’, ‘Grow’ and ‘Harvest’ with grants ranging from €500 to €2,000 and one group selected to receive €5,000.

It is expected the fund will be distributed across at least 86 community food growing groups in the sixth year of the fund, which has already supported over 500-community food growing projects to date.

The funding pool is now open to any community group, school, NGO or Not for Profit, community garden or allotment group, GIY group, hospital, crèche, direct provision centre, men’s shed, any group who grow their own food, want to grow their own food and want to promote growing food. Applications can now be made online via www.giy.ie

In addition to the funding provided, GIY also provides supports and opportunities for knowledge exchange between the projects, helping the best ideas to be shared through ‘Energia Get Ireland Growing’ creating a long-term legacy.

For information and application, visit giy.ie.

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