Grow Your Own Fund: Results
We are delighted to announce the results of the Grow Your Own Fund! A total of £52,500 has been allocated to 13 community and voluntary groups to create and enhance food growing spaces, as well as to provide food growing education for Edinburgh residents.
The panel team was impressed by the volume of creative and well-prepared applications we received, and managed to increase the budget slightly, from £50,000 to £52,500, thanks to community benefits. Although we were unable to fund all of the outstanding proposals, we will continue to signpost the groups to other available funding opportunities and offer our support for their initiatives.
Congratulations to the successful projects:
- Nuclear Growth, Barnton Bunker Preservation Society: was awarded £4,640
- Get Blackhall Growing, Blackhall Parent Carer Council: was awarded £2,000
- Tuk Tuk Grow and Go, Edinburgh Community Food: was awarded £5,000
- Redhall Grows, Friends of Redhall School: was awarded £5,000
- Gate 55 Community Food Growers, Gate 55 Community Centre: was awarded £4,946
- Growing Together, Goodtrees Neighbourhood Centre: was awarded £5,000
- Longstone Primary Farm and Garden, Parents at Longstone School: was awarded £1,400
- Community Garden at Pilton Equalities Project, Pilton Equalities Project: was awarded £4,000
- StJV Allotment: a growing space for the campus community, St John Vianney Primary School Charitable Trust: was awarded £5,000
- Community Garden and Foraging Trail, St Mary's Episcopal cathedral: was awarded £5,000
- Flourishing Together at Gracemount Medical Practice, Transition Edinburgh South: was awarded £5,000
- Garden @ the Snake, Fountainbridge Canalside Community Trust: was awarded £2,625 (partial funding)
- Edible Garden at The Action Group, The Action Group: was awarded £2,889 (partial funding)