Bloomin’ Crumlin is a volunteer-run group based in Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland. The group activities is aimed at improving and sustaining the environment of the local area. Our mission is to enable every resident in the greater Crumlin area to take ownership of the shared community environment and work towards its constant improvement in line with values of sustainability, democracy and inclusiveness.
Bloomin’ Crumlin was set up by a local residents who wanted to take action on environmental issues in the Crumlin area. A small team grew larger and 5 years on, there is a group of 100 volunteers who spent hours each week volunteering in different areas of Crumlin, Kimmage and Walkinstown.
Who we are
We are a group of local residents in the Crumlin/Walkinstown/Kimmage area concerned with the general poor state of the environment in the locality. Our background is diverse with participants hailing from Sudan, France, Germany, Switzerland, England, USA, Ireland, India and much more. Our youngest volunteer is 3 years old and our oldest is over 80 years old. We encourage participants with different abilities and are always looking for people to help us even if they can’t take part in the clean up. We always love hearing from people that might want to help, offer suggestions or have an interest in our group. So please get in touch if you think you have something you think you can offer or feel we can offer you.
Bloomin’ Crumlin is a community-led greening initiative focused on enhancing streets, green infrastructure (parks, green spaces, grass verges etc.) and biodiversity in the Crumlin and Kimmage area.
What are the objectives?
The proposed objectives of the Bloomin’ Crumlin project are:
- Improve public greenery by enhancing existing green spaces and looking for greening opportunities on streets that are accessible by all.
- Create a long term greening strategy that is based on suggestions from the public which are evaluated by experts.
- Work using a bottom up approach and address areas of inadequate public greenery first.
- Enhancing the biodiversity of the area by improving habitats for native flora and fauna.
- Create environmental education resources for local schools, groups and adult training initiatives.
- Work with local residents to collectively develop a vision and strategy for a greener area.
What is a greening strategy?
A greening strategy is a plan that is a combination of research and projects that aim to increase public greenery, improve green spaces, enhance biodiversity and enhance streets.
- These projects include planting, landscaping, food growing, green walls, murals, tree planting, education and awareness programmes and much more.
- The greening strategy will be used as a channel to get funding to implement projects over the next 5 years.
- Three recent examples of greening strategies are: Greening Stoneybatter, Liberties Greening Strategy and NEIC Greening Strategy.
Where is the study area?
