how we’re funded
we believe there shouldn't be a paywall on happy soil
That's why our compost is available to local growers on a pay-what-you-feel-if-you-can basis. By adding our compost as a mulch to tired, hardworking soil it can be reinvigorated and the food grown will be more nutritious.
Donations
A small amount of our funding each year comes from donations from the growers who use our compost. Their gifts are rooted back into our compost making, ensuring a safe working environment and keeping our little company thriving.
criw compostio is a not-for-profit organisation. No shareholders here either. Except the kind who agree we all have a share in and benefit from healthy soils, just societies and regenerative economies.
Grants
The majority of our income is from Grants for our research and communication work - like the Co-op Foundation who are funding us until 2027 to figure out and share how to make a peat-free pukka potting-grade compost entirely from waste. We have also benefited from grants from the National Lottery and the SPF in the past.
Local businesses
And we love local businesses who are a key partner for us. They pay us to collect and compost their food waste and their contributions directly fund our Compost Caretaker's wages. Big thanks in particular go to Hermit Crab Coffee Shop, Red Lion, Gwen, Y Plas, Wynnstay, Dulas, Caffi Glyndŵr and The Taj Hwb and all at Lloyds Coaches who give us precious space in their yard.
Arts and training
Our arts practice including compost sensoriums and bog walks, and our training programmes like the Community Composting School, plus speaking engagements all add much needed funds and help us reach, delight and support compostistas, peat-lovers, educators and activists.
Publications and merchandise
Finally income from our publications like the Terraforming Zine and other sustainably and ethically produced merch bring in unrestricted funds so we we can treat our fantastic volunteers to compost-geek learn-togethers, reliable PPE and great tea and biscuits.
Our Microbe-Lover Merch Shop is coming in 2026, till then get in touch if you'd like zines or compost by emailing us at helo@criwcompostio.co.uk
support us
there's a lot to care for
...and there's a lot to hospice.
10 years on and the UN headline now reads that "we have less than 50 harvests left" as soil is increasingly degraded. Collective action on soil care and regeneration is critical if we are to feed ourselves on more than lab grown blubber. Combine that with out of control waste streams, for example 8-10% of food is wasted globally, much of it sent to GHG emitting landfills or air polluting anaerobic digesters poisoning the local low-income communities. All the while ancient peatlands are destroyed unnecessarily to fortify dead compost.
They are just some of the reasons why we need community soil factories - a network of empowered compostistas making peat-free, chemical-free, biologically-alive, soil-enriching compost from local plant and food waste.
We're on a mission to help others make specific locally appropriate answers to rotting questions. To reconnect to land, the microscopic multitudes and so grow more nutritious food whilst protecting peatlands and dealing with waste responsibly.
And we want to make the carework of wastework visible, valued and everyone's business.
Join our regular supporters
Your monthly donation can help us bring you soil care stories, in-person training, unique arts events and enable more and more of us to nurture our soil back to health. Donate one hour's wage per month - or whatever you can afford - today.
Your gift can also work as a dana or pay-it-forward for you or others to receive our bio-remediating compost.
If you'd like to make a Gift to a loved one of soil care through community action get in touch, we have beautiful gift packs containing a gorgeous voucher and Terraforming Zine, just £10.
Are you with us?
Email us at helo@criwcompostio.co.uk to set up a regular or one-off payment or to purchase a Gift voucher and Zine.