Its annual small grants scheme is aimed at groups and agencies that wishto improve access to and take-up of a healthy diet.
How much is on offer: The grants on offer are between 500 and3,000.
What it will fund: Grants will only be given to projects working inlow-income communities in Scotland. Successful applicants must alsotackle one or more of the barriers to healthy eating that were set outin 1996's Eating for Health: A Diet Action Plan for Scotland:availability, such as the lack of fruit and vegetables at a reasonablequality and cost; affordability, including the costs of getting to shopsand the shopping itself; the lack of skills and confidence necessary tocook and shop for healthy meals; and culture, such as long-establishedbad dietary habits.
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