£60k ‘Buy Better Together Challenge’ Opens to Applications

Fri, 13 April 2012
 A new funding scheme designed to promote community buying has opened for applications. The Buy Better Together Challenge will fund projects which bring together groups or individuals to purchase goods or services and get better deals from shops and suppliers. The scheme can also provide many social and environmental benefits. Communities can get together to buy a whole range of goods and services from heating oil to solar panels to food.
 
Entrants are asked to address one or more of these challenges:

 

  • A project aimed at creating a platform, tool or vehicle to help individuals come together and form a community buying group.
  • A project aimed at enabling existing or new community groups to develop their purchasing power by working collectively on behalf of individual consumers.
  • A project aimed at businesses to empower their employees or consumers to group for community buying.
The deadline for applications is 15 May 2012.