Pocket Forests

Pocket Forests reimagine urban spaces by growing pockets of native forests with communities, creating thriving soil, biodiversity, climate resilience and natural habitat networks. We involve communities in soil preparation, tree planting and maintenance. This reconnects people with each other and their shared green spaces. To date we have planted more than 80 Pocket Forests around Ireland, working with over 1100 volunteers and over 3000 trees.

Location:

Dublin

Established:

2020

Type of organisation:

Social enterprise

Focus

  • Active citizenship
  • Children
  • Education and training
  • Environment
  • Policy and advocacy
  • Social inclusion
  • Sustainable development
  • Urban development

Interest

  • Development of education and training materials and programmes
  • European learning networks and exchanges
  • Community outreach and engagement
  • Policy, advocacy and campaigns
  • Research
  • Scientific innovation

EU Project Experience

No experience

This organisation is new to EU funding and will be supported by the Access Europe team.

EU Funding Goals

We would like to focus on building a network, and learning about EU funding initially.

Within 2 years we expect to be ready as a partner in projects.

Our 5 year plan is to have a specific collaboration project around the EU with fellow tree planting projects in urban communities.

Strengths

The Pocket Forests team is good at connecting with communities.

We are a professional organisation with an extensive range of experience between us.

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Contact Name:

Amy van den Broek

Job Title:

Co-ordinator

Email Address:
amy@pocketforests.ie
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