A way to promote healthy eating and to cultivate healthy school kids.

Learning about local growers, farmers and producers and about how a farmers market works could align with your school’s healthy eating program and complement work done at school around food, gardening and science.

Capital Region Farmers Market will provide one local school per school term with a $1500 grant that your school can put towards your own nominated programs which assist with educating children on healthy diet, growing your own food, the importance of eating food with low food miles and supporting local farmers and growers.

In addition to the grant money, Capital Region Farmers Market will offer your school:

• The opportunity to have a stall at Market to sell your own garden produce, or produce of choice, as an additional fundraiser for your school.
• The chance for your students to hold their own cooking demonstration at the Market creating their own recipe using fresh Market produce and/or food they have grown themselves.

Contact us

To nominate your school for our Market Munchies School Grant, please email Capital Region Farmers Market Manager, Sarah Power, on [email protected]

Terms & Conditions

• Market Munchies Capital Region Farmers Market School Grants (the program) is run by the Capital Region Farmers Market supported by the Rotary Club of Hall.
• The program is open to all schools in the Canberra Region, both primary and secondary.
• The winning grant is in the amount of $1500 – the Market will award one local school per school term with this amount.
• Two $250 Gift Vouchers will be awarded to second and third place schools to spend on plants/seedlings at Capital Region Farmers Market.

To enter:

• To nominate your school – email Capital Region Farmers Market’s Market Manager, Sarah Power, at [email protected]. Nominations must include your own name, school’s name, contact details and how you intend to utilise the $1500 grant.
• The person nominating the school must be aged 18 or over, directly affiliated with the nominated school and remain as the point of contact for the Market throughout the entire grants process.
• Criteria for grant funding – Monies need to be used to assist in educating your school’s students on healthy diet; and/or growing your own food; and/or the importance of eating food with low food miles; and/or supporting local farmers and growers. Entries will be assessed on this basis.
• The Market will pick three schools who have registered and have successfully met the entry criteria as stated above.
• Schools in the running each school term will be at the discretion of Capital Region Farmers Market and the decision is final. No further discussion will be entered into.
• If your school is not successful on the first time entering, they are more than welcome to register to enter for the next term’s grant round.
• Schools who are successful at winning a grant are not eligible to enter for the next 12 months.
• Registrations for Term Three grant funding close at close of business, Friday 27 October 2023.
• The three schools in the running for the grant will be announced by Wednesday 1 November 2023, and voting and promotions will begin at Capital Region Farmers Market on Saturday 4 November 2023.

To vote:

• The Market will announce the three schools in the running and set up a ‘jar system’ for voting for your school onsite at the Capital Region Farmers Market at the Rotary Information Desk.
• Voting ‘tokens’ will be milk bottle lids. Milk bottle lids must be washed and have the inner film removed.
• The Market will promote the three schools in the running via their website, social media and enewsletter to encourage visitors to come to Market, support and vote.
• Schools taking part will also receive images and content so they can promote the voting via their own school or P&C channels.
• School students and their families are encouraged to bring milk bottle lids to market to submit their vote in the jars provided – at the end of the grant found, the milk bottle lids will be donated to Canberra Charity Lids4Kids Australia.
• One vote per person will be counted towards your school’s total.
• Anyone at Market can vote for your school – they do not have to be a student or family member to vote.
• Voting will continue for five weekends onsite at Market. Voting closes after the market on Saturday 2 December 2023.
• The school awarded grant funding for Term 4 2023 will be announced by close of school term, Friday 9 December 2023.

The prize:

• The grant is in the amount of $1500.
• The Market will award one local school per school term with this amount.
• $1500 will be provided to the school as a direct deposit donation from the Market.
• The amount is final and cannot be redeemed for cash.
• The grant is non-transferable.
• Three grants will be awarded in 2023 – Term Two, Term Three and Term Four.
• In addition to the $1500 grant, the Market will provide the winning school with the following should the winning school accept:
  • A one-off stall at Market to sell their own garden produce or produce of choice. No stallholder fees will be charged to the school and proceeds from the stall will go direct to the school.
  • A one-off cooking demonstration held onsite at Market – students can create their own healthy recipe using fresh Market produce and/or food they have grown themselves.
  • The above opportunities are to be negotiated with Market Manager following successful awarding for grant money. Dates that suit both parties will be determined.