FtF: 2026 Grant Round
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Unlocking the power of public procurement
Partners: Sustain, Better Food Traders
Total awarded: £55,000
Strand: New Economies
Geography: England wide
Aim: To convene a working group of organic wholesalers, Regional Food Hubs and Sustain alliance members to improve the capacity of agroecological SMEs to access public sector contracts, through practical understanding, joint working, and creating a powerful voice to influence government policy.
Building Pathways to Community Land Ownership
Partners: Fordhall Community Land Initiative, Ecological Land Coop (ELC) & Shared Assets
Total awarded: £48,000
Strand: New Economies
Geography: England wide, Wales
Aim: To catalyse land redistribution by bringing together agroecological organisations, strengthening and building on existing knowledge, and developing the mechanisms for farmers, communities, and landowners to transition land into community custodianship.
Cultivating Collective Resilience: Strengthening the Earth Sistren Collective
Partners: African and Caribbean Heritage Food Network
Total awarded: £45,000
Strand: Diversifying the Movement
Geography: Southeast England, London
Aim: As secretariat, the organisation will strengthen the capacity of the Earth Sistren Collective (a network of Black women-led food enterprises) through targeted development in preparedness, prevention and resilience.
Scottish Agroecology Partnership (SAP): Shaping a Just Transition for Agroecology in Scotland
Partners: Nourish (Scotland), Pasture for Life (PFLA), Nature Friendly Farming Network (NFFN), Soil Association, Landworkers Alliance (LWA), Scottish Crofting Federation, Rare Breeds Survival Trust, Propagate (Scotland)
Total awarded: £33,500
Strand: New Economies
Geography: Scotland
Aim: The Scottish Agroecology Partnership will work collectively to shape agricultural policy in Scotland towards a meaningful 'just transition', advocating for a fairer system that enables all farmers, crofters and growers to make a dignified living, supports a shift to agroecological practices, and centres the voices of those working on the land through coordinated policy advocacy and public campaigning.
Sowing Staying Power - Collective Care for Burnt Out Farmers
Partners: Pathways to Land Collective, Community Food Growers Network & Basic Income for Farmers (BI4 Farmers)
Total awarded: £25,000
Strand: Movement Capacity Support
Geography: England wide, Wales
Aim: To create a movement-wide spring-board for addressing the challenge of widespread farmer burnout and low farmer retention through scoping sessions, a holistic weekend retreat, and ongoing follow up support for burnt out farmers.
UK Fruit and Vegetable Coalition: Increasing organic, agroecological growing capacity
Partners: CSA Network UK, Landworkers Alliance (LWA) & UK Fruit and Vegetable Coalition members
Total awarded: £30,000
Strand: Movement Capacity Support
Geography: UK Wide, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland
Aim: To build the capacity of the UK Fruit and Vegetable Coalition to influence horticultural policy in all four UK nations, so that organic, agroecological growers are given the policy and financial support they need to create a resilient, sustainable and accessible supply of fruit and vegetables for the UK population.
List of organisations which are members of the UK FVC:CSA Network, The Food Foundation, Organic Growers Alliance, Landworkers’ Alliance, Soil Association, Sustain, Lantra, Growing Communities, Organic North, Regather Sheffield, Better Food Shed, Food Sense Wales, Bridging the Gap, Wildlife Trusts, Propagate, Permaculture Association
Racial justice ecosystem mapping project
Partners: CSA Network UK, Landworkers Alliance (LWA) & UK Fruit and Vegetable Coalition members
Total awarded: £30,000
Strand: Diversifying the Movement
Geography: UK Wide
Aim: The project will create the conditions for better, deeper racial justice work across the movement for food sovereignty and land justice (racial justice through agroecology): by developing understanding of current efforts across the movement, and laying the foundations for future convening and designing collective strategy.
Oxford Real Farming Conference: Justice Strand
Partners: ORFC (Real Farming Trust)
Total awarded: £18,000
Strand: Diversifying the Movement
Geography: Southeast England
Aim: To develop a new iteration of the Oxford Real Farming Conference's Justice Strand, which over the next three years will maintain a focus on programming sessions that address issues of justice and intersectional oppression, whilst growing the diversity of delegates, centring diverse and underrepresented voices, improving the accessibility and inclusivity of the ORFC, and supporting fringe events for Justice Strand partners and speakers.
How to Build An Alternative Food System: Popular Education and Agroecology for Bottom Up Organising
Partners: Anne Matthews Trust & Land Skills Hub (Fivepenny Farm)
Total awarded: £15,000
Strand: Diversifying the Movement
Geography: Wales, Southwest England
Aim: To politicise a group of new organisers for food justice; outreaching in marginalised communities, and equipping participants with agroecological knowledge, practical skills, political analysis, networks and the confidence to act.
Rooting Relationships: Growing agroecology connections in Merseyside & Greater Manchester
Partners: Squash Liverpool & Kindling Trust
Total awarded: £14,900
Strand: Diversifying the Movement
Geography: Northwest England
Aim: To grow a more connected, diverse and sustainable agroecological movement for the NW region of Merseyside and Greater Manchester.
Fields of Expertise
Partners: Community Garden Support & Landworkers Alliance (LWA)
Total awarded: £14,500
Strand: Diversifying the Movement
Geography: Northern Ireland
Aim: To connect urban community gardeners with peri-urban and rural market gardeners in a mutually beneficial working and learning relationship over 11 months.
The Crowd Breeding Network
Partners: Gaia Foundation Seed Sovereignty Network
Total awarded: £14,500
Strand: New Economies
Geography: UK Wide, Northern Ireland, Scotland
Aim: To deliver two in-person events that convene participants of the UK-wide Crowd Breeding Network along with other radical seed systems actors, facilitating opportunities for knowledge-sharing and collaboration that will lead to broad seed system change.
Grow More Growers Documentary
Partners: Basic Income for Farmers (BI4 Farmers) & Bath University
Total awarded: £10,000
Strand: New Economies
Geography: Southeast England
Aim: To co-create a collaborative documentary following the lived experiences and diverse voices of Grow More Growers participants as they begin a three-year journey into establishing an agroecological enterprise supported by a Basic Income of £1,000 per month, access to up to 3 acres of land, agroecological training, a peer-to-peer network and a library of shared tools.
Agroecology Comms Network
Partners: Agroecology Comms Network
Total awarded: £5,000
Strand: Movement Capacity Support
Geography: UK Wide
Aim: Unrestricted funding for 18 months to support the general work of the Agroecology Comms Network.
The Agroecology Learning Collective
Partners: Agroecology Comms Network
Total awarded: £5,000
Strand: Movement Capacity Support
Geography: UK Wide
Aim: Unrestricted funding to support the general work of the Agroecology Learning Collective.
Northern Food and Farming Network
Partners: Northern Food and Farming Network
Total awarded: £5,000
Strand: Movement Capacity Support
Geography: Northeast and Northwest England
Aim: Unrestricted funding to support the general work of the Northern Food and Farming Network.
Dialogue Spaces for Complex Alliances
Partners: Landworkers Alliance (LWA), Navigate, Solidarity Across Land Trades (SALT)
Total awarded: £3,500
Strand: Movement Capacity Support
Geography: UK Wide
Aim: To trial a year-long programme of quarterly Dialogue Spaces between SALT and LWA — building on conflict mediation work carried out in 2025–2026 — with facilitation and mediation support from Navigate Coop, to strengthen and document the process for wider movement impact.
