Our Impact
Measurable change for people, communities and the planet.
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What We Help You Achieve
Action research-led approaches to building healthy, resilient systems.
Our Impact Aims
Guide everything we do at Farm Urban, shaping how we grow food, work with people, hold ourselves to account and build healthier, more sustainable places.
Respect planetary boundaries
We grow food in a sustainable way for people and the planet and increase environmentally sustainable behaviour across all areas of our business.
Create learning opportunities
We provide knowledge exchange opportunities relating to sustainability, health, and wellbeing and empower people to develop green and interpersonal skills.
Contribute to Resilient Local Economies
We create green jobs, develop local skills and we’re building financially sustainable local food models that strengthen long-term community resilience.
Improve health and wellbeing
We aim to make healthy food accessible to everyone and support people to reconnect with food growing to enhance their wellbeing.
Research & Innovate
We conduct research and share learnings to drive innovation, helping develop practical solutions that strengthen and accelerate the transition to more sustainable food systems
Partner with our local community
We support other local social enterprise initiatives as part of a local community and we communicate with our community to ensure that we are responding to local needs.
Featured Case Study
From Headwear to Healthier Food Systems.
Through our 1% for the Planet partnership with Beechfield Brands, we are delivering hands-on education and community growing programmes that connect people to sustainable food systems. Together, we are supporting young people and communities to build skills, confidence and awareness around food, health and the environment, while creating meaningful pathways into green careers and long-term positive change
Social Innovation from the ground up
Developing culturally relevant crops shaped by the lived experience of pantry members, supporting access to fresh, nutritious food that people recognise, value and actually want to cook and eat.
The
Challenge
The leafy green crops we were providing to the Food Pantry at Tiber St in Toxteth were not widely used in the dishes cooked by some community members.
Our
Approach
We built relationships with volunteers and community members using the food pantry. We invited them to our vertical farm, showed them how we grow, asked them what they would like us to grow and listened to them.
The
Impact
We grew new crops in collaboration with community members. Built relationships and trust. Developed a model of social innovation we are replicating with communities across the UK.
Key
Insights
There are some amazing leafy green crops we had never heard of, widely used in Caribbean, African and Middle Eastern cooking which it turns out grow very well in our vertical farm.
How We Work
Our Approach to Impact
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We work with communities, public institutions and partners to understand local food, health and environmental challenges in context.
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Drawing on evidence, lived experience and systems thinking, we co-design practical solutions that respond to real needs.
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We test ideas in real settings, offices, schools, hospitals, community organisations, embedding solutions where they will have the most impact.
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We collect data, evaluate outcomes and learn quickly, strengthening social, health and environmental impact through iteration.
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We support long-term adoption, replication and partnerships, scaling what works and sharing learning to influence wider systems.
Discover & Engage
desk research, mapping, interviews
Co-create & Test
community sessions,
hands on pilots.
Implement & scale
strategy, pathways, models, pilots
Analyse & Iterate
themes, behavioural patterns, barriers
Other Projects
Community Engagement across Manchester
Community events and social science activities across Manchester
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Through focus groups, workshops and hands-on engagement, we gathered lived experience insights, tested ideas in real settings and shaped system and space design around community needs.
This work combined qualitative insight with practical delivery, strengthening local relationships and informing scalable, people-centred food system innovation.
Experience Day with South London Community Leaders
Immersive experience day at our Liverpool HQ, to explore community-embedded food growing in practice.
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Participants engaged hands-on with our growing systems, Edible Walls and education programmes, building shared understanding of how vertical farming can support health, skills and food justice.
The day strengthened relationships, built trust, and laid a solid foundation for future collaboration.
Reports & Publications
Evidence for healthier, regenerative city food systems.
Trusted by our Funders, Investors and Partners
Let’s build healthier food futures together.
If you’re looking for a partner to help you deliver social and environmental impact through urban agriculture, STEAM education or innovative research we can help.