The independent evaluation of NI’s Growing Resilience

group of people from Northern Ireland's digging deeper project

The independent evaluation of NI’s Growing Resilience: Digging Deeper Project 2019 – 2024

Funded by the National Lottery Community Fund has been published. This 5-year project has established community-growing networks throughout NI based on:

Equity & Social Justice
Attracting a diverse range of participants and intentionally removing barriers to participation

Asset-based Community Development
Beginning with noticing and mobilising existing value and assets in a place. 

From Centralised to Distributed networks
Involving people working peer-to-peer as equals, creating, and producing together

Productive Activity
Producing tangible things together as human beings

Read the full report here.

“This project understood, embodied and practiced that relationships are the ‘bottom line’ in terms of our wellbeing as people and our ability to feed ourselves and thrive on a living planet”.

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Area
Northern Ireland
Topic
Food growing