Real Farming Trust backs grassroots efforts to transform food and farming through agroecology, local food systems, and community-led enterprises. Its support appears especially focused on small-scale, mission-driven businesses and partnerships that make good food more accessible while strengthening the evidence base and practical infrastructure for food justice. The trust stands out for combining social investment with mentoring and for supporting collaborative food access and food system transformation work across the UK.
Provides patient social loans and mentoring through its LEAP programme, typically to small agroecological food and farming enterprises in the UK. Funding appears to be mission-aligned, relatively hands-on, and targeted at ventures that can demonstrate local community benefit rather than large-scale charity grants. Partnerships and delivery collaborations also suggest some programmatic support for food justice initiatives.
Check the LEAP programme eligibility closely: it is aimed at small UK agroecological food and farming enterprises and includes both financing and mentoring. Applicants should be prepared to show local community benefit, a clear social/environmental mission, and how the enterprise fits agroecology and food-system transformation goals. Because the trust emphasizes partnerships and learning, strong applications will also highlight practical delivery plans and community impact.
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Current and upcoming funding from Real Farming Trust that your nonprofit may be able to apply for.
Who can apply: Small-scale agroecological food and farming enterprises serving local communities. Applicants should be enterprises with social and ecological values seeking loans between roughly £10,000 and £100,000.
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