Buckinghamshire Community Growing
By bringing people together to cultivate fresh fruit and vegetables, we can create greater connection between nature, the environment and where our food comes from. We can increase access to fresh produce, and build more resilient, healthier and happier communities.
Our Funding Priorities
Access and Engagement with Community Growing
Outcomes We Want to Support
Enables more opportunities for people to come together to grow food for community benefit
For example:
- Creating and maintaining shared gardens that focus on delivering community benefit, including improved health and wellbeing, and employability.
- Transforming neglected public spaces into community growing opportunities.
Broadens access to community growing through adaptations to facilities, education and outreach, particularly for underrepresented groups and young people
For example:
- For example through physical adaptations such as raised beds and ramps.
- Diversifying the community growing offer through practical workshops such as planting seeds, harvesting and education on the connection between growing food and environmental impacts.
- Community outreach supporting engagement with diverse audiences.
Case Studies
A Thriving Network for Community Growing
Outcomes We Want to Support
Builds organisations’ capacity to develop their community growing offer through skills and training, organisational development and physical infrastructure
For example:
- For example, workshops and training on crop growing, composting, soil health, and other nature-friendly practices such as no-dig gardening.
- Organisational development support in areas like safeguarding, volunteer engagement, and inclusive working practices.
- Opportunities such as job-shadowing, internships, and apprenticeships to enable individuals gain hands-on experience and training in community growing.
- Infrastructure development and supporting development of converted spaces.
Collaborations and partnerships that enable greater access to locally grown produce, with a particular focus on disadvantaged communities and young people
For example:
- For example, locally grown produce is supplied to school cafeterias, community lunch groups and food access organisations.
- Networking, communications, and shared resources that strengthen the community growing movement.
Case Studies
Other Buckinghamshire Grant Programmes
Green Fund
The Green Fund offers grants of up to £10,000 to support funded organisations to address the challenge of climate change within their own organisations. Only available to current holders of Community or Strategic Fund grants.
Buckinghamshire Arts
Through our support of the arts in Buckinghamshire, we enable accessible and inclusive opportunities for people to engage with the arts, while helping to build a resilient arts sector.
Schools Access Fund
The Rothschild Foundation and Waddesdon Manor jointly run a Schools Access Fund offering grants up to £1,000 to cover the costs of school trips to the house and gardens. We want to encourage new audiences to experience Waddesdon and to take part in the Learning Team’s programme.