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TESCO: Stronger Starts - Cooking for All Fund

Open (with deadline for applications) Age Children (0-12) Poverty and deprivation Young people (13-25) Antrim & Newtownabbey Ards & North Down Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Belfast City Causeway Coast and Glens Derry City and Strabane England Fermanagh and Omagh Great Britain Lisburn and Castlereagh Mid and East Antrim Mid Ulster Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Micro (up to £1,000)

Overview

How does it work

In recognition of children needing a Stronger Start in life, our Cooking for All campaign in partnership with The Sun, will offer £150k in grants through the Tesco Stronger Starts fund in an effort to improve children’s access to healthy food, have a wider understanding of where food comes from and an opportunity to learn how to prepare and cook healthy and nutritious meals.

How does Cooking for All work?

With 150 grants of £1,000 each available, Tesco is committed to helping local communities thrive by investing in children and young people, supporting them through access to healthy food, nutritional information, where food comes from, and how to cook it.

Eligibility

The applicants must be an organisation or school in local communities with a priority on supporting children and young people up to the age of 16 with access to healthy, nutritious food, and educating them around food, particularly how to cook.

What type of projects can apply to the Cooking for All Fund?

Applications are open to any not-for profit organisation or school who support young people up to the age of 16 around nutrition, healthy eating and cooking.

Match funding

Cooking for All can fund 100% of your project costs so you do not need any match funding. However, if you have secured additional funding, there is no limit to what this amount can be and any funding awarded by Tesco can form part of your wider project costs.

Key dates

Application Deadline: Noon, Friday 30/05/2025