The Eat it Up Fund is a new £200,000 partnership grant programme from the Hubbub Foundation UK and speciality coffee business, Starbucks, which has 32,000 retail outlets in 80 countries across the world

The Fund will provide one-off grants for projects that offer innovative solutions to the following challenges.

o Address pre-farmgate waste.
o Find creative ways to use surplus food in communities or at home.
o Minimise food waste from retailers, and/or
o Prevent food from being wasted at the manufacturing and processing stage. 

Revenue and capital grants of up to £40,000 are available. Grants must be used within 12 months of confirmation of an award.

Grants can be used for capital expenditure, salaries, and marketing and promotion. Grants cannot be used to cover core operational costs.

The funding timetable is as follows:

1. Open for expressions of interest: 9am, Monday 19th June 2023.
2. Deadline for expressions of interest: 5pm, Friday 21st July 2023.
3. Open for full applications (those invited to apply): 9am, Monday 14th August 2023.
4. Deadline for full applications: 5pm, Friday 22nd September 2023.
5. Successful applicants informed: October 2023.
6. Winners announced publicly: End of 2023.

The Hubbub Foundation has scheduled a free-to-attend Question and Answer webinar on Monday 3rd July 2023 between 10:30 and 11:15am for agencies interested in finding more out about the programme. Registration can be made at this link to Zoom.

Further information, guidance and details about how to access the Expression of Interest form can be found on the Hubbub Foundation website.​​​​​​​

Contact details for the Fund are:

The Eat It Up Fund
The Hubbub Foundation UK Ltd
Somerset House
The Strand
London
WC2R 1LA
Tel: 020 3701 7543
Email: eatitupfund(at)hubbub.org.uk