Vote for Tummies Not Trash!
No, we haven’t gone political! We’re fundraising, and this time around, we are relying on the public vote!
(it’s free, only takes a few minutes, and you vote for 5 projects so you can do a lot of good with your 5 votes!)
City of Edinburgh Council have launched a £100,000 Community Climate fund for projects that help tackle climate change in Edinburgh and surrounding areas. As we are driven by preventing food from going to waste, we have applied for £20,000 towards our zero food waste base.
what we want to use the money for…
Since we got our charitable status, we have been inundated with requests from stores wanting us to collect from them, people offering to volunteer for us, as well as requests from groups and organisations able to use the food. However, as a small team, to ensure that the food is collected, sorted and distributed safely , we need somewhere as a base to operate from.
This would allow us to collect more food, offer more volunteering opportunities and help our partner organisations reach more of their service users.
Most of our work is carried out at night and in the early morning so it would be ideal to have somewhere that, throughout the day, could be used as an educational base.
If you would vote for us, we would really appreciate it
How to Vote
you can also vote using your young scot card number, the details are below.
2. You then log in with your MyGov account details.
(this is to make sure that each vote comes from residents living within the council boundary and don’t vote multiple times)
3. Then search for Tummies Not Trash we are submission number 51.
4. click Vote!
The great news is that you vote for 5 projects, (please vote for 5 as otherwise the votes don’t count)
There are some amazing projects to choose from! Our partners at corstorphine community centre are running Seedlings for seniors and we would strongly encourage you to check out IMBY powers up, an educational activity for p5-p7 pupils.
Young Scots!
if you are under 18 and have a young scot card, you can also vote!
1. go to voting.young.Scot
2. You can then sign in using your 16 digit number under your name
3. Then search for Tummies Not Trash we are submission number 51.
4. click Vote!
Remember to vote for 5 projects in total! There are some amazing things going on in Edinburgh, so all of the projects are very deserving and would put the money to good use!
Thank you to all the people who have taken the time to vote for us, it’s massively appreciated!
To check out what else is going on with Tummies Not Trash, check our news page