New funding to tackle food waste through innovation.
The Eat It Up Grant Fund 2024 is now open and aims to fuel innovations that reduce edible food waste, ensuring food serves its purpose – to be eaten.
There are six grants of up to £60,000 each to organisations with ground-breaking ideas to cut down on food waste.
You can apply if you're a:
- Registered charity, including charitable incorporated organisations and not-for-profit companies
- Social enterprise
- Community Interest Company
- Educational institution (schools, universities, colleges)
- Local authority
- Micro or small business with a clear social purpose (less than 50 employees and an annual turnover under £10 million)
The Eat It Up Fund is aimed at innovators with creative solutions to tackle edible food waste and is looking for applications that:
- Address pre-farmgate waste
- Prevent food from being wasted at manufacturing and processing stage
- Minimise food waste from retailers
- Find ways to reduce or prevent food waste in communities or at home.
The expression of interest deadline is 5pm 14 June 2024.
For further information please select the following link: Eat It Up Fund | Hubbub