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Tesco Community Grants (Stronger Starts) is a grant from Tesco that funds local community organizations addressing children's access to healthy, nutritious food across the UK. Schools, registered charities, and nonprofits supporting children and young people can apply for grants up to £1,500 for projects such as breakfast and holiday clubs, cooking or gardening initiatives, healthy snacks for sports clubs, and life skills programs.
The £5 million program is administered by Groundwork UK. Community shortlisting involves Tesco colleagues, with customers voting in-store using blue tokens. Since 2016, Tesco has awarded over £100 million to more than 50,000 community projects.
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Apply for a Stronger Starts grant At Tesco, community is key to our purpose. The ambition at the heart of our community work is to help children access healthy and nutritious food as part of their daily routine. By helping children and young people thrive we can ensure they build a solid foundation for life, making communities stronger too.
We want to spark curiosity, confidence and joy in eating well to shape healthier futures for all. Tesco Stronger Starts invites schools, registered charities and not-for-profit organisations supporting children and young people to apply for up to £1,500 for causes that improve access to healthy, nutritious food.
From enhancing school provision to supporting local community services, we welcome applications that use healthy food that supports physical and mental health of children and young people across the UK. This could include breakfast or holiday clubs, cooking or gardening initiatives, providing fruit or healthy snacks for a sports club or projects that build life skills, confidence and wellbeing.
Tesco colleagues help to select the projects that will be voted for in regions across the UK. Customers are then invited to vote, using a blue token, to select their preferred project – ensuring local communities can have their say in how funding is distributed to the three groups. Community charity Groundwork manages this website and administers the funding across the UK.
Groundwork is working with greenspace scotland to support successful projects in Scotland. Nominate and support a local project that matters to you We welcome nominations from Tesco customers and colleagues, you can nominate projects for a Tesco Stronger Start grant and vote in-store for shortlisted projects. Help us fund the projects that really matter to you.
See how the funding helps This breakfast club aims to reduce the stress of the morning routine for families and children, offering them a healthy breakfast before school starts. Tesco community grants have supported thousands of community projects since 2016.
Find out what has been funded near you: NEWS: Tesco Stronger Starts £5m programme open for applications Tesco is introducing a £5m grant programme, in partnership with Groundwork UK, to give children across the UK a stronger start in life.
NEWS: Tesco announces £5m grant programme to boost school funds Thousands of school children across the UK will benefit from a new grant programme launching this summer which will provide £5 million in grants to help give them a healthier, more active, stronger start in life. NEWS: New report highlights £100m impact made in UK communities Since it began, Tesco has awarded £101,881,339 in funding to 50,880 community projects.
The grant awards were decided by 738,402,011 votes cast by Tesco customers in stores across the UK using their iconic blue tokens. This website uses Google Analytics to collect anonymous information such as the number of visitors to the site, and the most popular pages.
Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Local community groups and organisations addressing food poverty. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
Current published award information indicates £1,000 - £25,000 Always verify allowable costs, matching requirements, and funding caps directly in the sponsor documentation.
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The Healthy Communities Grant Program is seeking projects that: Target resources to benefit communities at risk (environmental justice areas of potential concern, places with high risk from toxic air pollution, urban areas) and sensitive populations (e.g. children, elderly, others at increased risk). Assess, understand, and reduce environmental and human health risks. Increase collaboration through community-based projects. Build institutional and community capacity to understand and solve environment and human health problems. Achieve measurable environmental and human health benefits. Proposed projects must: (1) Be located in and/or directly benefit one or more of the three Target Investment Areas which include: Environmental Justice Areas of Potential Concern, Sensitive Populations, and/or Urban Areas in one or more of the EPA Region I States of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and/or Vermont; and (2) Identify how the proposed project will achieve measurable environmental and/or public health results in one or more of the five Target Program Areas which include Asthma, Capacity Building on Environmental and Public Health Issues, Healthy Indoor/Outdoor Environments, Healthy Schools, Urban Natural Resources. Funding Opportunity Number: EPA-R1-HC-2010. Assistance Listing: 66.110. Funding Instrument: CA. Category: ENV. Award Amount: $5K – $35K per award.
Community Economic Development Planning Grants is sponsored by Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Community Services (OCS), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This program stimulates new project development through administrative capacity building for Community Development Corporations (CDCs). This can be a good entry point for organizations to plan and develop projects that might later be eligible for larger CED project grants, potentially incorporating arts and cultural elements within a community economic development framework for urban youth.
Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants is sponsored by U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration. This grant program builds the capacity of community colleges to collaborate with employers and the public workforce development system to meet local and regional labor market demand for a skilled workforce. The purpose is to increase the capacity and responsiveness of community colleges to address skill development needs, offer accelerated career pathways, and address challenges associated with the COVID-19 health crisis.