Information

March 03, 2025 - March 30, 2025

Grow Your Own is a pilot grant scheme provided by the City of Edinburgh Council. Its purpose is to support new community food growing projects based in Edinburgh. Grants of up to £5,000 will be awarded to constituted voluntary and community groups across the city to support new projects in publicly accessible spaces.  A total of £50,000 will be awarded. 

Possible project topics include: 

• Creation and development of community food growing projects 
• Creation of community garden kitchens 
• Supporting food waste reduction and reuse of materials in communities 
• Education around urban food growing 

Applications are made online through the Your Voice platform to the Edinburgh Grow Your Own Fund and application form and supplementary documentation to thrivinggreenspaces@edinburgh.gov.uk.  

Accepting projects (now closed)

March 31, 2025 - May 12, 2025

What can you apply for?

We are looking for the projects aimed at the creation and development of community food growing in Edinburgh. For example, the funding can cover:

• Seeds, plants, and tools
• Equipment for community garden cooking areas
• Education and training around urban food growing
• Personal protective equipment
• Staff time which is directly related to the establishment of the growing area
• Construction related to facilities and accessibility (e.g., new ramps, raised bed planters) for the growing space

Applications are made online through the Your Voice platform to make them available for the public, and to make the process more transparent. Confidential data such as names and bank account details (as asked for in Application Part 2) are to be sent separately to the Thriving Greenspaces Team at thrivinggreenspaces@edinburgh.gov.uk.

How to apply:

• Read the application guidance and download Application Part 1 and 2.
• To apply, sign in to Your Voice with MyAccount
• Once logged on click “Submit an application".  Fill in the online form, and attach your completed Application Part 1 proposal under the “Documents” section.
• Email the completed Application Part 2 section and other required documents (such as your constitution) to the Thriving Greenspaces team at thrivinggreenspaces@edinburgh.gov.uk before 12 noon 12 May 2025.

We have put together some common questions and answers on the FAQs page.

View the applications

Decisions Announced

June 12, 2025 - June 18, 2025

When all applications are reviewed and decisions are made, the information on the outcome will be available on this page. 

What's next

June 19, 2025 - July 30, 2026

Updates on the funded projects will be available on this page. Key findings from the pilot will be published here.