Project Archive
Regional Food Fund 2022
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Project Name |
Description |
Funding Request |
Region |
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Appetite for Angus- Regional Pop-Ups |
Series of pop-up events and initiatives at local and national events to showcase produce and producers from regional food group, Appetite for Angus |
£3,000 |
Angus |
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Borders Food Kitchen |
Unique collaboration between Scottish Borders farmers, butchers and chefs at the Border Union Show to demonstrate the quality and exceptional taste of local produce. |
£5,000.00 |
Borders |
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Bowhouse Link |
Creation of subscription box service, via a shared ecommerce site, to make shopping locally & seasonally easier. Build on previous projects developed during the pandemic from this exceptional enterprise in Fife |
£5,000.00 |
Fife |
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Celebrating Scottish grain, flour and bread |
Collaborative project to showcases the high quality bread-making |
£4,300 |
Fife |
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Clyde Islands Gin Passport |
Collaboration of several distilleries in the region to create a Clyde Island gin passport, a physical passport to accompany the purchase of a Clyde Island gin pack. Aims to help create awareness of the three islands as a group, for visitors to consider as a holiday |
£5,000.00 |
Ayrshire |
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Festival de Noel |
Food and drink events to boost tourism and the local economy in Braemar during the quieter months |
£4,700.00 |
Aberdeenshire |
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Food from Argyll Event |
Delivery of planning and consultation process to create a major in event in 2023 and beyond. Planning commissioned by the excellent regional food group, Food from Argyll, with a strong track record in successful food and drink events |
£3,000.00 |
Argyll |
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Glass Wilder Food Feasts |
This is a collaborative project between two new entrant food producers, a chef and local estate to offer seasonal pop-up feasts and events. This project will enable us to engage more local people with local food, which has been produced on ‘wilder’ farmland and is farmed in a way that directly contributes to nature recovery |
£5,000.00 |
Aberdeenshire |
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Grantown Food and Drink Fest |
Creation of food and drink festival in Grantown-on-Spey to showcase the diversity of local producers to the public. After the festival, a ‘meet the producer’ will be held event for producers to meet tourism businesses providing opportunities to collaborate, grow and diversify through trade partnerships. An online food and drink trail for visitors will be developed to promote the project |
£5,000.00 |
Perthshire |
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The Green Bowl Local Food Hub |
Local food hub, marketing, selling and distributing food produced within the village of Elphin & surrounding areas to residents and tourists |
£5,000.00 |
Highlands |
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Improving Access to Local on Isle of Bute |
Installation of farm shop vending machine within Bute Yard |
£5,000.00 |
Isle of Bute (Argyll) |
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Jump Start Programme |
Three month structured programme for ambitious food and drink start- ups in Dumfries and Galloway. Up to ten ambitious food and drink businesses will have the opportunity to apply, giving them ahead start in getting their product to market faster |
£5,000.00 |
Dumfries & Galloway |
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Lanarkshire Recipes
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Innovative project by regional food group Lanarkshire Larder to promote the variety and quality of Lanarkshire’s produce, with webpages focusing on traditional recipes from the region using local produce |
£5,000.00 |
Lanarkshire |
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Love Langholm Market |
Funding will enable the appointment of a freelance administrator to work on this fairly new market which was revived under new ownership when the previous team stepped down after the pandemic. The post will enable the market's longevity and growth |
£5,000.00 |
Dumfries & Galloway |
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NeighbourFood Pitlochry |
Development of the online producer marketplace that will enable it to increase the number of producers & customers as well as greater awareness amongst locals and visitors |
£4,277.92 |
Perthshire |
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North Highland Products Research |
North Highland Products, the trading arm of North Highlands Initiative (launched by HRH The Prince of Wales in 2005) produces a range of products, especially beef and lamb. Aim is to conduct research which will help provide impartial, |
£5,000.00 |
Highlands |
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Rosewell Farmers Market |
Establishment of regular Farmers ‘Market at the Steading, |
£4,589.00 |
Edinburgh & Lothians |
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Scottish Development |
Evolution of the successful sales and marketing platform for Edinburgh's craft breweries, Beers of Edinburgh, which opens new market opportunities for the sector. Funding will enable further online and retail sales as well as transferring the format to wider |
£5,000.00 |
Edinburgh & Lothians |
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Shetland Seafood Provenance Scheme |
Collaborative project to improve the promotion of where and how to source and savour |
£4,957.00 |
Shetland |
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Stranraer Oyster Festival |
Project aims to increase the 'taste of place' experience of this renowned festival, telling the story of Galloway's regional food and drink, creating a focal point for local produce within the 'kitchen marquee' of the festival site. It will connect local producers and food tourism experiences with local chefs through recipe development and provenance narrative |
£5,000.00 |
Dumfries & Galloway |
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Tarbert Seafood Festival |
Annual seafood festival in village of Tarbert. Project will enhance promotion of locally-landed seafood; give local businesses an economic boost and promote the area's wider tourism offering |
£2,000.00 |
Argyll |
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Taste Tayside - Celebrating Seasonality |
Consumer-facing ‘buy local’ campaign in Dundee to help local hospitality businesses to recover from the pandemic, work with their suppliers to promote good, locally sourced, seasonal produce, delivered by regional food group Eat and Drink Dundee. Participating businesses will have access to planned ‘Provenance Premium’ workshops and ‘Meet the Producer’ events |
£5,000.00 |
Tayside (Dundee) |
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Turriff Show food and drink pavilion |
Creation of food and drink pavilion at the Turriff Agricultural Show which attracts 20k visitors. Project will facilitate local food and drink producers to come together, to showcase the superb variety of products that are available from producers in the North East |
£5,000.00 |
Aberdeenshire |
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TOTAL |
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£105,823.92 |
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2021 Regional Food Fund
| Project name | Funding Request | Description | Region |
| 21st Century Market Towns | £5,000 | Digital and physical trail covering Cupar & North Fife to list, promote and support food and drink businesses. Collaboration with Cupar Now (Scotland’s first Digital Improvement District) & multiple partners across food & drink and tourism | Fife |
| Arran Food and Drink to Market | £5,000 | Regional food group of 40 Arran food and drink businesses and organisations. Collaborative project to boost sales of local produce including physical market; vending machine & digital marketing campaign | Ayrshire & Arran |
| Ayrshire & Clyde Islands Taste | £5,000 | New trails as part of a strategic regional approach to pandemic recovery. Development of digital assets including mobile app-based trails, video storytelling & itineraries linked to thematic experiences and products. Trails will promote and connect food and drink businesses across Ayrshire and the Clyde Islands of Arran, Bute and Cumbrae. Will create & strengthen linkages between tourism and regional food groups within The Coig area | Ayrshire and the Clyde Islands |
| Ayrshire Connect - Food and Drink | £5,000 | Creation of online platform to promote food and drink producers across Ayrshire. Collaborative project led by Ayrshire Chamber of Commerce | Ayrshire |
| Ballantrae Festival of Food and Drink | £3,000 | Virtual version of this successful food and drink festival to drive sales of local produce | Ayrshire |
| Barras Food and Farmers' Market | £5,000 | Monthly market, with producer tastings & educational events, at BAaD, part of the historic Barras market in East End of Glasgow | Glasgow |
| Bute Kitchen | £5,000 | From regional food group Bute Kitchen, Collaborative & digital actvity to grow off-island sales including markets & pop-ups; demos at the new Bute Yard centre; chef videos & maximising launch of e-commerce platform | Argyll & Bute (Isle of Bute) |
| Castle Douglas Producers Market | £5,000 | As part of a new, collaborative digital High Street project, producer market will be strengthened and online version created to complement it | Dumfries & Galloway |
| Faldonside Food and Drink Market | £4,150 | Launch of new food and drink market that will support producers to increase sales & profile the region | Scottish Borders |
| Flavour Fortnight | £5,000 | Revival of a multi-location rural food tourism festival in Dumfries & Galloway with aim of fuelling Covid recovery. Project is an innovative intervention, supporting businesses to develop food tourism activity & encourage them to use the festival to pilot diversification and collaboration ideas | Dumfries and Galloway |
| Go Rural | £5,000 | Project to boost purchase of farm produce as part of the development of the Scottish agritourism sector | Pan-Scotland |
| Great British Food Hub, Aberdeen and Shire | £5,000 | Growth & development of existing online food market to boost sales of local produce | Aberdeenshire |
| Highland Food and Drink Tourism | £5,000 | Creation of new directory of Highland food and drink producers, with accompanying marketing campaign, by a new tourism group in the area. Working closely with Highland Good Food producer group | Highlands |
| Highland Food and Drink Trail | £5,000 | Collaborative, 1.5 pedestrain trail either side of River Ness. Members will include restaurants, cafes, pop-ups & street food that sell and promote quality Highland produce | Highlands |
| Huntly Hairst | £5,000 | Strengthened produce presence and increased number of interactive events at this renowned harvest festival | Aberdeenshire |
| Innerleithen NeighbourFood Hub | £5,000 | Online click and collect market, part of the NeighbourFood platform, filling a gap in the market in the area | Scottish Borders |
| Lanarkshire Larder | £5,000 | Branding, website & social media development for this new regional food group to grow and support the Lanarkshire food and drink sector | Lanarkshire |
| Market Kick Start | £5,000 | Expansion of Bowhouse market that will help more local food and drink producers gain access to an alternative route to market and support bounce- back. Monies would pay for traders to gain a funded stall. Successful applicants would be granted a year’s free membership to Food from Fife |
Fife |
| Marketing DG Markets | £5,000 | Project to increase footfall, sales and awareness of markets across Dumfries & Galloway | Dumfries & Galloway |
| Mull and Iona Food Trail | £5,000 | Redevelopment and extension of existing food and drink trail, as well as production of Moveable Feast events | Highlands & Islands (Mull & Iona) |
| Mull Seafood - Market Recovery & Stimulation project | £3,300 | Collaboration between local fishing and other food businesses and the Dervaig Community in North Mull. Weel of marketing & promotion of Mull seafood including two food tourism opportunities - a Seafood Exhibition Night celebrating local produce, and an oyster farm educational tour and tasting |
Argyll & Bute (Isle of Mull) |
| NeighbourFood Falkland | £3,275 | Creation and marketing of locally-sourced 'Meal Kits' for home-cooked meals. The concept builds on the growing success of NeighbourFood Falkland which is a ‘click and collect’ weekly market with over 20 producers from across Fife and surrounding area | Fife |
| Orkney Food and Drink Trail | £5,000 | Interactive online map of local food and drink producers, integrated with www.orkney.com portal. Will encourage sales & promotion of island businesses | Orkney |
| Pedal Power | £5,000 | Marketing campaign to promote sales from local producers/businesses that are part of their cargo bike delivery scheme in Edinburgh | Edinburgh |
| Produce of Perthshire | £5,000 | Innovative project to promote the Produce of Perthshire (PoP) with a strong, digital base to create and promote not only the produce but the partnerships, provenance and people behind it. Virtual showcasing, tastings, knowledge sharing & potential to increase the opportunities, profile and collaboration of producers |
Perth & Kinross |
| Promoting Milngavie Food Hub | £4,180 | Growth & development of existing online food market (Great British Food Hub platform) to increase producer sales and community involvement | Greater Glasgow |
| Root to Market | £5,000 | Expansion of collaborative online market supporting Scottish food and drink producers, established in Edinburgh in response to the pandemic, providing a lifeline to suppliers whose sales plummeted due to closure of hospitality & other avenues. Project will allow extension of home delivery beyond the Lothians & introduction & promotion of more suppliers | City of Edinburgh |
| Secret Coast Hampers | £4,992 | Production, sales & promotion of hampers across Argyll's 'secret coast' | Argyll & Bute |
| Skye and Lochalsh Local Food Hub Network | £5,000 | Establishment of permanent network of 10 food hubs across the area, led by the Food Link van team | Highlands & Islands (Skye) |
| Southern Argyll Food Hub | £5,000 | Creation of physical and online market to promote and sell the area's seafood and agricultural products that are often difficult to access | Argyll & Bute |
| Spirited Stories | £5,000 | Gathering & promotion of regional food and drink stories, featured through existing tourism portals | Highlands |
| Stirling Highland Games Food and Drink Virtual Experience | £5,000 | Virtual food and drink market to replace the established physical one part of the Stirling Highland Games | Stirling/Forth Valley |
| Strathearn Local Food Hub | £5,000 | Sheltered outdoor space allowing for development of three existing initiatives: Comrie Croft Neighbour Food online market; weekly veg box & two local cafes | Perth and Kinross |
| Taste North 2021 | £5,000 | Virtual/physical hybrid edition of this well-established Highland food and drink festival. Will allow increased trader participation & promotion of local produce | Highlands |
| Taste of Luing | £2,750 | Collaborative project by island food producers and outlets, led by the Isle of Luing Community Trust, which aims to establish a more sustainable, all-year round market for Luing produce. Will provide regular access to local produce, plus promote the island's food heritage to tourists and visitors by offering local produce menus | Argyll and Bute (Isle of Luing) |
| Taste of Shetland | £5,000 | New Taste of Shetland trailer which has been commissioned for a long-term project to promote the island's food and drink on and off Shetland | Shetland |
| Tea Scotland Blend | £5,000 | From the association of small tea gardens, project aims to deliver improved transportation methods, new tea blends and promotion and sales of Scottish tea | Scotland-wide |
| The Alloa Market Place | £5,000 | Launch of food and drink section on an existing online marketplace, Alloa First, to support companies across Clackmannanshire and give the public access to local produce | Clackmannanshire |
| The Ghillies Larder | £5,000 | Monthly farmers' market in Braemar to connect producers, farmers & artisan makers with locals & visitors | Aberdeenshire |
| The Great East Lothian Menu | £5,000 | Recipe competition challenging entrants to create a menu using only ingredients sourced from East Lothian producers | East Lothian |
| Tourists for Local Produce | £5,000 | Project to highlight, sell and promote more local produce across the island's tourism and hospitality sector, including self-catering accommodation | Argyll & Bute |