Heres some excellent news... Growing Together, a sustainable funding initiative led by FCFCG that aims to unlock money, land and skills to support community growing, has been awarded £800,000 by the Big Lottery Fund. The grant will enable the Growing Together partnership (of voluntary and environmental sector organisations) to work together, ‘hothousing’ fresh, innovative ways for local community growing groups to generate their own income. Over the next two years, Growing Together will promote the widespread uptake of innovative community enterprise; help people develop business and technical skills and offer advice and training on alternative funding approaches, such as community shares and digital income generation (DIG). The aim is to support and inspire a cultural shift within the community growing sector - providing community growing initiatives with the confidence, skills and knowledge they need to move from passive reliance on grants to a dynamic and balanced income model. The project will provide support materials, training, networking opportunities, peer-to-peer learning and tailored support to promote new ways of raising project and operational funding, through social enterprise, crowdfunding, community share issues, commercial sponsorship, philanthropy and other innovative methods not currently prevalent in the sector. For more details visit: farmgarden.org.uk/news
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 10:49:33 +0000
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