Nurture Development has developed a unique approach to building stronger communities that has been successfully employed throughout Ireland and in Africa. Our approach has been arrived at by drawing on a number of innovative community development models, including Asset Based Community Development, Sustainable Livelihoods approach, Appreciative Inquiry and many more. It involves bringing together local people, community, government, business and philanthropic organisations to achieve mutually desirable objectives that result in communities that are socially, economically and environmentally stronger.

We advise Local Authorities, Regeneration Boards and Development Authorities at a strategic level on the implementation of this approach within their organisations and we also provide on the ground community building solutions.  Many of the agents of change who commission us tend to do so in an effort to respond to a variety of challenges as diverse as gun crime to poor community engagement.

Click here for some of the organisations we work with in this area.

1. Developing Asset Led Policies
We have developed strategies, policies and guidelines in the following areas:
Community Development
Estate Management
Youth Participation
Neighbourhood Revitalisation
Regeneration

Click here for some of the asset led policies we have developed.

2. Citizen Engagement Initiatives
We develop democratic Citizen Forums that are genuinely citizen-led and self-sufficient. These include:

Seniors Forums                      
Disability Forum
Childcare Forum            
Senior Providers Forums
Business Forums                      
Employment Forums
Young People’s Forums

We work with communities who are endeavouring to respond to challenges such as:

Gun Crime
Anti-Social Behaviour
Ailing Business District
Increases in Local Unemployment
Social Exclusion

Click here for some of our more recent Citizen Engagement initiatives.

3. Community Organising
We are regularly commissioned by Local Authorities, Regeneration Boards and Development Authorities to work with communities where revitalisation or regeneration is being undertaken. We are also commissioned to work in neighbourhoods, towns and villages where a sense of community has been lost or not yet developed.
One of the key objectives of the written Statement of Policy on Housing Estate Management is the promotion and facilitation of tenant/resident involvement in the management of the local authority’s housing estates. The big question is: how is a local authority to achieve such objectives?
Nurture Development uses an on the ground community organising approach to do so.

Click here for an example of our Community Organising work.