Our Mission
Community Garden Support is a fledgling charity committed to supporting community gardens in Northern Ireland and advancing the profile and policy support for community -growing nationally. Although we are a new charity, our team has worked together for the past 7 years.
Our mission is to support our grassroots network, comprising geographic communities and communities of interest, in participation in local food growing, environmental stewardship, development of green infrastructure, creation of mutual support networks and contribution to a shared commons of regenerative growing skills and information to benefit everyone in our society.
We form alliances with a broad range of organisations and design our approach to achieve equity of access, so that more people will reap the additional proven benefits from community growing, including: improved mental and physical wellbeing, access to local and healthy fresh food, social connection, shared purpose and community belonging, participation in democracy, skills and enterprise, and improvement of local assets.
Our Approach
(1) To support people who community garden, use community growing as a community development or health tool, or interact with nature in their communities, to achieve their self identified aims where they overlap with our charitable aims, and to engage in climate and nature action through growing and environmental stewardship in the communities in which they live and operate.
Resources
From school resources to composting, from policy to organising groups, you’ll find links for this and more here.
(2) To strengthen the sector by building long term dense distributed networks of community growers across Northern Ireland and within the UK and Ireland, for mutual support, popular education and movement building.
Get Involved
Find community gardens and groups in your area, across Northern Ireland, Ireland and UK.
(3) Working with our members and communities at a political level to provide a voice for the sector, to influence and collaborate with local councils and other public bodies and decision makers to provide land and the right conditions for community growing to flourish.
Our Work
Read about projects that span regenerative agriculture skills, policy and community.
