Registered
Public benefits
1. Citizenship and community development. Communities will be supported to engage in land-based community development and action in shared outdoor spaces through regenerative community gardening, contributing to the climate, soil and nature emergencies by community stewardship of public land. Networking: The Community Growing sector in NI will be
well connected with each other in distributed geographical networks in their local Council areas and across NI; also connected to communities of interest in the UK and Ireland. 2. Education. Best practice will be shared in regenerative community horticulture skills and the community management of public land through skill-shares and training addressing the climate and nature emergencies. 3. Health and Wellbeing: The physical, mental and social well-being of individuals engaged in community gardening will be improved. The cultivation and availability of regenerative locally grown food will contribute to personal health and well-being. 4. Protection of the Environment: NI will have a skilled, strong network of community gardening groups that will contribute to the transition to a regenerative food system and protect and enhance green community space. Community Gardens can contribute to the regeneration of our soils, water, nature and biodiversity. 5. Prevention and relief of poverty: Community Garden networks will be supported to be equitable, diverse and inclusive. Community Gardens can contribute to alleviating food injustice through the production of local fresh produce. 6. Encouraging, promoting and supporting participation in local regenerative food growing, community gardening, interacting with nature, environmental stewardship and by any other charitable means as the directors shall from time to time decide: The Community Growing sector in NI will have bespoke support, advice and expertise on governance, land issues, regenerative community horticulture skills, networks, resources and information. Feedback Forms; Surveys; Evaluations; Annual Forum for Community Gardens; Independent Evaluation. Collection of data and mapping of community growing projects. No The public at large as the Community Growing sector will make a contribution in the transition to a regenerative food system in NI. In particular communities who want to community garden and all the individuals who participate in community gardening. The environment will benefit from the custodianship of public land and the practice of regenerative growing in urban and rural areas. No
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
1. Develops and supports community gardening, regenerative agriculture and community empowerment by 2. Supporting people who community garden and projects which use community growing and interaction with nature as a community development or health tool in their communities - by providing advice, facilitation, networking, resource materials and
information; 3. Develops and supports a grassroots network of groups engaged in local regenerative food growing, community gardening and environmental stewardship for skill and resource sharing, community capacity building and movement building; Actively supports equity of access in participation, and prioritising support for lower income areas and marginalised communities to ensure an equitable community food growing network; 4. Strengthens the community growing sector by connecting communities and partners across Northern Ireland, the UK and Republic of Ireland for mutual support, education, knowledge exchange and policy development; 5. Shares and develops good practice in regenerative growing and nature based activities that address the climate and nature emergencies and promote further actions on carbon reduction including waste, transport and energy; 6. Promotes and supports the wider opportunities for people to engage in the other benefits of collective regenerative growing in the community including improved mental and physical wellbeing and social connection, leisure, shared purpose and belonging, development of a regenerative local food system, community management of public land and improvement of local assets; 7. Advocates on behalf of members and the community growing sector to influence land owners, public bodies and decision makers and to advance public awareness of growing regenerative food locally, community empowerment and environmental stewardship; 8. Co-operates and forms alliances with other charities, voluntary bodies and statutory authorities to exchange information and advice with them.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The prevention or relief of poverty
- The advancement of education
- The advancement of health or the saving of lives
- The advancement of citizenship or community development
- The advancement of environmental protection or improvement
Who the charity helps
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- General public
- General public
- Older people
- Physical disabilities
- Voluntary and community sector
How the charity works
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Community development
- Community development