Our funders and partners

The Network is coordinated by RISC in partnership with:


The Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens: supports, represents and promotes community-managed farms, gardens, allotments and other green spaces. It represents around 120 city and school farms, nearly 1,000 community gardens and a growing number of community-managed allotments and supports their work with outdoor learning.
http://www.farmgarden.org.uk/education

Garden Organic: the UK’s leading organic growing charity. Its schools’ project is a nationwide campaign with over 6,000 members which helps children grow vegetables at school, and learn more about their food. Support for schools includes demonstration gardens, CPD and teaching resources.
http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/schools_organic_network

Food For Thought: is a project of Devon Development Education. It links school gardens in Devon, Cornwall and Berkshire with similar projects in two rural districts in Uganda. It provides an opportunity to share experience, knowledge, resources and information between two countries, broadening horizons to engender a real understanding of each others’ cultures.
http://www.globalcentredevon.org.uk/dde_project_FFT.htm

Practical Action: is a development charity that works closely with some of the world’s poorest people to fight poverty - using simple technology to create jobs, improve health and livelihoods and transform their lives for the better. Its education programme supports learning about sustainable design and technology, renewable energy and climate change.
https://practicalaction.org/?id=education&utm_campaign=Education+CMS+pages

RHS Campaign for School Gardening: is a nationwide education programme run by the UK’s leading gardening charity. It encourages and supports over 10,000 schools to develop and use a school garden to develop the life skills of gardening, growing food, healthy eating and how to care for the environment.
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/SCHOOLGARDENING/default.aspa

Roehampton University School of Education: is promoting the use of the outdoor classroom in its Initial Teacher Education (ITE) courses and the schools it works with. A key aim is to explore the use of the outdoor classroom to support global citizenship.

This project has received funding from the Department for International Development (DFID), although the views expressed within do not necessarily reflect its official policy. DFID is the Government Department that manages Britain's aid to developing countries and works to get rid of extreme poverty and supports projects that are designed to promote public knowledge and understanding of development issues.