CAG Oxfordshire is supporting groups to put on an events and activities for Food Waste Action Week (17-23rd March) and Great Big Green Week (7-15th June).
We are delighted to collaborate once more with Oxfordshire County Council and the Climate Action Oxfordshire website to support two important awareness weeks in 2025. These weeks have the potential to create a big impact to our climate action efforts by providing enjoyable and engaging ways to educate and involve the public in reducing food waste and addressing broader environmental issues.
Jump to the grants most relevant to your group. You can apply for both programmes if your group can put on events during both weeks.
Replenish Oxfordshire’s Food Waste Action Week Grants
The Replenish Oxfordshire’s small grants programme supports community groups to organise local events, workshops and activities during Food Waste Action Week (FWAW), 17-23 March 2025. These should highlight the issue of food waste and engage and support the local community to reduce their household food waste.
For 2025 the week's theme is ‘Choose What You’ll Use’ campaign with the goal to ‘get more and more people across the UK talking about why buying loose fruit and vegetables is better’.
We are happy to support events that align with this theme (e.g., make your own produce bag workshops, activities around the correct storage of produce, meal planning workshops, cooking from scratch), as well as events around the broader theme of household food waste reduction.
Grants of £200 are available for activities taking place during FWAW. We are particularly encouraging groups who are ‘new’ to FWAW to apply.
Deadline to apply: 17 February 2025
Great Big Green Week Grants
The Oxfordshire Great Big Green Week (GBGW) small grants programme supports community groups to organise local events, activities and festivals during the Great Big Green Week, 7-15 June 2025. These should engage the local community and celebrate action and progress being made on climate change.
We want to support activities and events that empower local groups to create new connections and raise awareness in order to support new people, local businesses and organisations to take climate action.
Grants of £200 are available for activities taking place during GBGW. We are particularly encouraging groups who are ‘new’ to GBGW to apply. If you would like to plan a series of events that build off one another and can ‘extend’ your GBGW activities as a week or month-long celebration, you can apply for a grant of up to £500.
We would like to particularly emphasise the importance of creating social connections, which can build resilient communities, through these activities.
Deadline to apply: 14 March 2025
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