Project Category
Healthy Foods
Healthy Planet, Healthy People: Change Award 2026
Cupar Food Station - Community Masterplan
Last year, with the support of the Catalyst Award, the Cupar Development Trust developed an outline business case for Cupar Foodstation, a food-themed enterprise and welfare hub in Cupar, offering a community-led solution and a people-centred approach delivered through local organisations and food producers.
Change Award – Healthy Foods
Healthy Planet, Healthy People: Catalyst Award 2026
UnBEANlievably tasty
Taking place at two market gardens—Upper Ballaird Farm Co-op, Stirlingshire and Lauriston Farm, Edinburgh—the UnBEANlievably Tasty project aims to investigate which bean varieties can perform well in market garden conditions whilst also providing tasty, nutritious legumes for local consumers.
Catalyst Award – Healthy Foods
Seeds of change
The Seeds of Change project will support the development of the Scottish Seed Hub; a co-operative of growers aiming to increase the production and dissemination of locally-adapted, open-pollinated seeds grown using optimal agroecological practices.Â
Catalyst Award – Healthy Foods
Fermenting community
Through the Fermenting community project, Ieva Chaleckyte, a fermentation revivalist will work with the Mandala Garden Project in Nairn to utilise overabundant seasonal fruit and vegetables to increase fermented food consumption and build a strong community network through the group production of fermented food.
Catalyst Award – Healthy Foods
Community-Led Insights into Gardening, Cooking, and Pantry Participation at the Royston Food Hub and Their Effects on Wellbeing
Royston, North Glasgow, is considered a food desert, where residents face economic disadvantage, limited access to fresh produce, and social isolation.
Catalyst Award – Healthy Foods
Can rock dust improve soil and crops?
UK food self-sufficiency has declined to 62%, with a heavy reliance on imported food from regions that can be vulnerable to drought, fire and flood. Scottish Islands, once able to survive for weeks without a boat, are today at the end of the distribution line and need to rebuild food security.
Catalyst Award – Healthy Foods
Seed Circle Lochaber
Seed Circle Lochaber is a community-led research project that explores how a locally organised seed-saving network can strengthen food resilience, food cultures, biodiversity, and community wellbeing in Lochaber. It will involve food growers of every scale, from people who grow herbs and vegetables on a windowsill to crofters, small producers, and community food-growing projects.
Catalyst Award – Healthy Foods
Our Food, Our Health, Our Future
Access to healthy, affordable, and culturally appropriate food is vital for good physical and mental wellbeing. Despite this, many minority families in Scotland face structural barriers and find their voices are missing from health and food policy discussions.
Catalyst Award – Healthy Foods
Healthy Planet, Healthy People: Catalyst Award 2025
Seeding sustainable futures: Building food security through community action
Abundant Borders will save and freely share seeds with people who may not be able to afford to buy them and have little or no experience growing food. Seed saving is an ancient practice that preserves biodiversity, builds resilience, and empowers communities.
Catalyst Award – Healthy Foods
Scottish Borders orchard research project
The Borders has a rich history of orchards dating back to the establishment of the Border Abbeys. Previous local research has highlighted that old orchards and heritage fruit trees are being lost at a rapid rate but that many new orchards are being established.
Catalyst Award – Healthy Foods
Full of Beans: A community film and food project
Take One Action brings communities together to harness the transformative potential of film and storytelling for collective change.
Catalyst Award – Healthy Foods
Using compost teas in market gardens to enhance crop health, yield and build healthy soils
Lauriston Farm, run by a workers’ cooperative in North-West Edinburgh, is dedicated to sustainable food production, biodiversity, and community. Building soil health is central to our land stewardship and food production. Chemical fertilisers disrupt the balance of soil health, degrading microbial ecosystems.
Catalyst Award – Healthy Foods
Local pear cultivation and consumption
Pear fruits are an important source of nutrition and fibre with diverse forms: culinary, dessert, juice, and perry. Existing supermarket and wholesale supply chains rely almost entirely on imports of three varieties: Conference, Rocca, and Comice du Doyenne.
Catalyst Award – Healthy Foods
Healthy Planet, Healthy People: Catalyst Award 2024
Cataloguing commons
What are the challenges involved in organising a seed commons and making seeds accessible?
Catalyst Award – Healthy Foods
Our Right to Food Project
The Our Right to Food project is developing ways to measure the progress towards the right to good quality, affordable food in Scotland.
Catalyst Award – Healthy Foods
The Mycorrhizal Market Garden: what can we learn from fungal networks?
What are the structures, communication strategies, relationships, resources, and supports required to build a cooperative of independent growers that is sustainable, effective, and nourishing for those involved?
Catalyst Award – Healthy Foods
Sustainable food procurement for north Edinburgh
The Community Renewal Trust in Edinburgh is part of the R2 network of organisations that collaborate to achieve better outcomes in local communities.
Catalyst Award – Healthy Foods
Porridge Power
Porridge Power will take a youth-led, place-based approach to help secondary school students understand and harness the power of the humble porridge oat.
Catalyst Award – Healthy Foods
Project Year - 2023
Ecopoetics Report
Shaping sustainable food futures through education, engagement, and action for a healthy planet.
Public Learning Workshop 2023