VALUES

Cooperatives have often emerged at times of social, economic and political crises, offering a different way of organising. They are people-centred enterprises owned and run by and for their members to realise common economic, social, cultural dreams and aspirations.

Cooperatives bring people together in a democratic and equal way that is life affirming and caring.

RECONNECTING

Our vision is places and communities in which the care of people and our ecosystem is placed front and centre. We know that it feels good and it feels right to reconnect and bring the wonder of the natural world into our every day lives.

MAKING & DESIGN

The use of our hands is when we begin to make things real and design different possibilities. Whether it is small shifts in the way we meet, plan, decide and relate to one another, to learning to make an everyday item, to growing some food that we will eat, to mending an appliance that has broken, to producing a film, creating a piece of art, poetry or music; through using our hands we restore connections to place as we can only work from where we are each standing. For our Cooperative, Garvagh Forest is our anchor and the place that connects us, roots us and from where we can grow our work with other spaces and places.