From the Haringey Council website
Haringey residents and community groups that want to have a go at growing their own food are invited to bid for money earmarked by London Mayor, Boris Johnson, for Sustainable Food Projects across London.
The latest Capital Growth Scheme small grants round is managed by London Food Link, part of Sustain-the alliance for better food and farming, and is Mayor Johnson's £75,000 fund to help Londoners grow
their own food in under-used areas of the capital. The target is to
create 2,012 growing spaces by 2012 in discarded patches of London,
tended by enthusiastic community gardeners.
Green fingered community groups in Haringey are urged to apply for small grants from this pot of money and are in with a good chance of success. This is in addition to the practical support being offered to
communities to help them to identify plots and join Capital Growth.
More than 300 plots have already been signed up across the city
including canal banks, schools, roofs, private gardens open to the
community and parks.
The Capital Growth small grants fund offers between £200-£1,500 to anyone who wants to create a new community food growing space. The grants will be on offer London-wide from 8 February - 1 March 2010 to
any group that wants to start a growing project or who has been growing
food on a plot started since 1 January 2009. The grants are also on
offer to anyone wanting to expand an existing food growing space.
telephone: 020 7837 1228
Tags for Forum Posts: local food
© 2024 Created by Hugh.
Powered by
© Copyright Harringay Online Created by Hugh