Welcome to IRRI

We cannot invent any more resources than the world can provide. But we can invent new ways of using them to make them stretch further. IRRI is a charity committed to helping people stretch their resources to meet their needs. We do this through three different activities.

Our public campaign is the Resource for Life programme, which works with resource deprived communities to help them learn how to control their own resources to meet their needs. This is a new programme, starting in areas of deprivation in urban and rural UK regions. We are focussing on children in particular, teaching them how they can access the resources they need in life. It is being piloted in the Castleview Primary School in Craigmillar (Edinburgh).

Our second area of work is in Partnership Projects which aim to develop the most urgent and needed innovations that are not already being explored through official channels. These are all European partnerships and their themes are water management, the creation of new lakes and wetlands, monitoring and measuring groundwater, renewable energy in remote regions, domestic energy use, waste and recycling. We work with regional Governments, Universities and the private sector in these projects.

Our third area of work is in building the bridge from the theories we develop in our partnerships to the practice necessary to deliver real benefit to the people that need it. In order to make this viable and practical, we offer a range of research and associated services in support of the knowledge and expertise necessary to make the innovations available and affordable.

IRRI Runner Bean Team

IRRI’s Runner Bean Team took part in the BUPA Great Winter Run on the 7th January to raise money for the Resource for Life programme. Please click on the Just Giving link to the right to support the team.

You can also see the pictures on Flickr ...

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