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The first round of funding for the Black Food Fund is now closed. We'll be aiming to launch our next round in early 2025.

If you’re having any trouble please email your application to hello@blackfood.fund.

Over the next two years, we will be distributing £450k of grant funding. The overall focus will be to build healthy food environments for Black people. Especially those living in Lambeth and Southwark.

To start this journey in 2024 we'll be giving out an initial £80k worth of grants. Each grant will be a max of £20k. Over a max of 1 year.

This will help us test the approach, hear more about what’s needed, learn what works and adjust for future funding.

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In this first round we're looking to fund:

Local work that helps to position Black food, culture and health at the heart of the local food system. We’re focused on work that does this by centring African and Caribbean knowledge, research, education and advocacy in Lambeth and Southwark.

To test the approach we’ll start this journey with £80k in grants.

In this initial round of funding during 2024, each grant proposal can apply for a max of £20k. There is no minimum.

Each grant will last max 1 year.

This is to allow us to understand what works. We may open larger rounds of grant funding later down the line.

To apply we ask that you are:

centring Black African and/or Caribbean research, knowledge and cultures and traditions.

Living, working or doing a lot of work within Lambeth and/or Southwark.

deeply embedded in local Black communities.

invested in supporting local food equity and health over the long term.

Black-led, meaning 75% of the leadership team and decision-makers are:

Black African

Black British

Black Caribbean

or of Mixed Black Ethnicity.

We welcome applications from anyone named in the ‘who can apply’ section.

Within this we are not able to fund anyone:

• working at or is a trustee for Impact on Urban Health

• sitting on the Black Food Fund committee

• related to any member of the Black Food Fund committee

• related to the Black Food Fund fiscal host (currently Hello Brave and its subcontractors)

• who would receive private financial gain from this funding that surpasses or is unrelated to the public benefit or impact

• who cannot be paid this funding into or does not have a UK bank account.

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Please note: you do not need to have a company or charity or CiC to apply. You only need to agree to pay any eligible taxes to HMRC.

To apply, fill out a short expression of interest by 11:00am Weds, 10 July 2024.

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You can share your expression of interest in the way that works best for you. It can be a written, video or voice submission. This won’t impact the success of your application.

The Black Food Fund is led by a committee. They are Akwasi, Candice, Celestine, Gaye, Kemi and Veronica. Black community leaders living and working in Lambeth and Southwark. You can find out more about them here.

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The Black Food Fund is funded by Impact on Urban Health. They are a grant funder focused on health equity in Lambeth and Southwark.

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Until the end of 2024, the fund will be hosted and facilitated by Hello Brave. Hello Brave is the brand of researcher and design strategist Tayo Medupin. Hello Brave work with subcontractors on projects that focus on early years, mental health and structural inequalities.

There are no restrictions on what your funding can be used for. As long as it is used to further the aims of the Black Food Fund and as agreed with the committee.

This means that you can apply and use funding for:

• project costs (incl. new projects, existing projects, research, design or delivery etc).

• core costs (incl. overheads, staff costs, rent, energy and utilities, insurance etc).

• capital costs (incl. buying and updating physical assets like buildings, equipment or technology etc).

• and anything in between.

NOTE: In line with Charity Commission guidelines and agreements with our funder, there are some prohibited uses (e.g., fraud, terrorism) which we’ll share with all successful grantees.

If you have something you’d like us to fund, that doesn’t fit in this Open Funding Call, please let us know here. This will inform the next round of funding.

The Black Food Fund is currently hosted by Hello Brave. You can read Hello Brave’s Privacy Policy here