About our work

We work alongside communities, public bodies, private companies and other voluntary sector organisations to deliver projects and programmes that benefit:

• people – creating opportunities for people to learn new skills and become more active citizens
• places – delivering environmental improvements that create cleaner, safer, greener neighbourhoods
• prosperity – helping businesses and individuals fulfil their potential.

Find out more about our programmes and partnerships.

Through our work we aim to help people make sustainable development a reality, respecting nature’s limits and supporting the concept of One Planet Living .*

We deliver projects and programmes, manage contracts and deliver services that can help:

• build safer and stronger communities
• promote health and well-being
• support local economies and tackle worklessness
• provide young people with something to do and somewhere to go
• promote environmental sustainability and combat climate change

Our approach is always to work with others to add value to wider plans and strategies and our role is often to find ways of helping local people get practically involved in making decisions and managing improvements in their neighbourhood.

We operate locally, regionally and nationally in the UK and have growing international links.  Our projects are delivered by professional staff with expertise in six key areas:

• community development workers - building stronger neighbourhoods
• landscape architects - reconnecting people with their surroundings
• employment and training practitioners - delivering skills and helping people find work
• education practitioners - supporting sustainable schools and delivering learning and citizenship in and out of the classroom
• business advisers - helping organisations prosper by managing their impact on the environment
• youth workers - helping young people realise their potential.
  

You can find out more about our plans and objectives for the coming years by downloading a short guide to our Strategic Plan for 2006 - 2009.

Groundwork works closely with the Department for Communities & Local Government to deliver cleaner, safer, greener communities.

We are also working with the Department for International Development to increase understanding of how our work in the UK can help contribute to global sustainable development and the Millennium Development Goals.

• Find out more about Groundwork’s global working.

*One Planet Living is a joint initiative of WWF and BioRegional

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