A Glasgow food festival has been given a cash boost with a £10,000 award from the Big Lottery Fund.

Real Food, Real Folk, who are behind the Let’s Eat festival, is among 73 groups across Scotland are set to get their hands on some much-needed cash as part of a funding drive.

As part of Awards for All Scotland, each of the groups will receive between £500 and £10,000 to help set up and develop a wide spectrum of projects for – and by – local people.

Projects in Glasgow that will be enjoying a cash boost as part of the scheme include the people behind The Let’s Eat Glasgow food festival which takes place next month.

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The festival which focuses on the benefits of healthy eating while highlighting the quality of local produce on offer.

Colin Clydesdale, chairman of Real Food, Real Folk, said: “We knew we couldn’t shout about the great food we have in Glasgow and across the West of Scotland without trying to do something to help address the very real food inequality across our town.

Let’s Eat Glasgow” is free to enter and gives everyone access to good food, cooked by great chefs at accessible prices and also access to fantastic local producers.

“All profits raised will go towards our work addressing food inequality across the city and we wouldn’t be able to do it without the help from Awards for All Scotland.”

Govanhill Family Support Group also received a generous amount of cash which they intend to spend on refurbishing the group’s respite caravan in Berwick holiday park and funding a sessional worker to provide alternative therapies, such as massage, to service users.

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A further £10,000 was awarded to Try A Job which provides business support to young adults through work placements and mentoring, while Centenary Garden’s Mens Club was given £500 to buy a new pool table.

Across Renfrewshire, Paisley & District Boys Brigade Battalion have been given £10,000 to fund the refurbishment of their building alongside Scottish Afro-Caribbean Carnival, who will be using their cash boost to organise an annual festival that features African and Caribbean music, dance and food.