Supporting community-based food projects: advisory & training services on participatory video proposals for planning, sharing and fundraising purposes
Make It Grow is a UoS CROSS Catalyst award winner, affiliated to the Institute for Sustainable Food, University of Sheffield, supported by the UKRI's Economic and Social Research Council.
We devise resources to support straightforward ways of enhancing the social inclusion, production and dissemination of video proposals for community groups and facilitators.
We provide tools and facilitate online spaces to enable individuals, groups and organisations to build their video-making capacities, particularly for the purpose of creating community-based, participatory video proposals.
We work with INGOS, community groups and networks, like the United Nations Development
Programme's Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme and other donors, to support and pilot the integration of video proposals into their grant management and application
process.
Through our social media channels, we provide support for the community partners that we work with by promoting their videos. Public events and video screenings are organised to support the fundraising efforts and raise awareness about sustainable food issues.
Make it Grow received funding from the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) fund to support project activities from April - December 2024. In collaboration with partner organisations, Make it Grow achieved:
The Make it Grow project was borne from a need to support grassroots community organisations to use video to effectively share their stories and pitch their project ideas. The workshop is designed to support participants in using video more effectively, as a powerful tool to communicate, to learn, to document and gain support for community-based food projects. Our learning programme is practical and highly interactive, aiming to create an online space for mutual support and knowledge exchange between participating individuals, communities or organisations.
A participatory video proposal, made by members of the 'Makunembe Traditional Meals' group in Bulilima District, Matebeleland South Province, Zimbabwe. Facilitation by Buhle Ndlovu and Paul Nyoni. This community proposal was created within the frame of the project, "Make it Grow: Transforming Community Grant Processes and Supporting Sustainable...
A participatory video proposal, made by members of the 'Management Community Health Club' in Cowdray Park, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Facilitation by Duduzile Dube and Effater Sithole of ORAP. This community proposal was created within the frame of the project, "Make it Grow: Transforming Community Grant Processes and Supporting Sustainable Food Start-ups...
A participatory video proposal, made by members of the 'Phakama Community Group' in the City of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Facilitation by Alport Ndebele and Makhosi Ndebele, with support from ORAP.
A participatory video proposal, made by members of the 'Bud Self-Help Group' in Chirumanzu District, Midlands Province, Zimbabwe. Facilitation by Takudzwanashe Tadzoka and Lawrence Makaure of Hand In Hand Zimbabwe. This community proposal was created within the frame of the project, "Make it Grow: Transforming Community Grant Processes and...
