Communities Can Apply For The New Sharing Table Award Worth £5,000

Sharing Tables Award

We’ve teamed up with surplus food charity FareShare and skills organisation City & Guilds to launch a new Sharing Table Award Worth £5,000 to celebrate and recognise the importance of communities sharing friendship, food, skills and resources.

How does your community share?

We’re inviting communities to tell us how the act of sharing supports their community including their plans for sharing food on The Big Lunch weekend on 1-2 June.

We also want to know how they work together as a community to support nature and be planet friendly where they live. Communities are going green and we want to hear how!

The Award

The community receiving the award will receive a specially designed The Big Lunch Sharing Table made by the people at City & Guilds, plus funds towards their community projects and ideas, and a hamper of food and resources for a Big Lunch that are together worth £5,000.

The sharing table design will be based around the needs of the community, whether it is a table with seats where a ‘knit and natter’ group can share conversation, a workbench for skills sharing or a picnic bench for food sharing outdoors. The winning community will work with City & Guilds, who will design and make a table from upcycled or reused materials to meet their needs.

Finalists

Three finalists will each receive a hamper of goodies to support them to have a Big Lunch, and £500 towards their project or idea to support the local community.

Deadline: 9am, Monday 20 May 2024.