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Food in Focus Funding (FIF)
Eating well and having a healthy weight can help to reduce the risk of developing diet related health conditions such as obesity and type 2 diabetes.
FIF is Health Improvement Funding (HIF) that is solely allocated to support the development of food work including food skills, food growing and access to affordable healthy food in Aberdeen city. HIF and FIF general purpose is to support health improvement work by focusing on priority topics but recognising actions needed to address the barriers around health inequalities. HIF and FIF are the responsibility of the Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership Public Health and Wellbeing Team. The funding has been made available as part of the ACHSCP commitment as partner of Aberdeen Community Food Network (ACFN ) to promote practical food skills and knowledge (C2C NHSG healthy eating resource ) and build resilience.
Funding priorities include;
- To enable Food champions to apply for funding to develop and/or enhance community food based activities, projects, or events, such as Food skills (block of 6 weeks C2C sessions) , food growing or access to healthy food
- To promote the NHSG healthy eating resource- Confidence to Cook (C2C) in the community
- Applications must also take into account at least one of the priorities which are drawn from the Aberdeen City- Central, North, and South locality plans below. Improve mental health & wellbeing in the local area (Connected and resilient communities) - Identify and maximise use of disused outdoor space to increase food growing opportunities - Create solutions to tackle food poverty
The fund does not cover -
- Organisations without an organisational bank account or governing document
- Day-to-day running costs e.g. rent or building maintenance
- Continuation of existing projects (Except where a proposal clearly demonstrates improvement)
- Activities which do not demonstrate a will to engage positively with the ACFN Food Champions Programme