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Chamber and committees

Big Lottery Funding for the Food Train

  • Submitted by: Emma Harper, South Scotland, Scottish National Party.
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 31 August 2017
  • Motion reference: S5M-07410

That the Parliament congratulates the Food Train on securing a grant from the Big Lottery Fund Scotland; notes that it has received a grant of £1.2 million; recognises that the funding will be used to create a network to test ways of helping older people eat well and avoid malnutrition, which affects 1-in-10 older people across Scotland; further recognises that the Food Train delivers meals to hundreds of older people each week across the country; understands that the Food Train’s charity, Eat Well, Age Well, will involve health care workers, voluntary groups, local and national government and the private sector working together to trial ways to address older people’s eating habits, and wishes the Food Train well for the future.


Supported by: Clare Adamson, Jenny Gilruth, Fulton MacGregor, Ben Macpherson, Ivan McKee