Social Impact Report 2015

This report sets out to explore the wider social impact created by Leonardo and Kerthatár community gardens for the 2014/2015 period. It shares findings from an evaluation study undertaken between September and December 2015. Throughout this report, we demonstrate that our gardens have been extremely successful in engaging people from very different paths of life in a space for nurturing personal and social development. This involvement in a community-based green space, combined with the physical and psychological effects of gardening, has provided opportunities to improve the quality of life of gardeners and communities in terms of eating habits, health, wellbeing, education, employability and community engagement.