Groundwork has lent its support to the new learning outside the classroom manifesto launched by the DfES by pledging to operate education projects that will get children and young people learning in the great outdoors.
Groundwork Rossendale's innovative and colourful children's courtyard was highly commended by the Landscape Institute Awards this week. The project won joint top in the Community Design & Conservation category at the prestigious awards which honours the best in landscape design.
A Groundwork Trust has had two projects shortlisted for the prestigious National Energy Efficiency Awards 2006. Groundwork Leicester & Leicestershire's EMAS (Eco Management & Audit Scheme) in Schools and the Green Doctor project are amongst the finalists for this national award scheme.
Groundwork has recently been given the go ahead to start work in helping to improve the environment in Newcastle by Newcastle City Council. Groundwork South Tyneside will be delivering projects in the city to help build safer and stronger communities, promote health and well-being, support local skills and enterprise, provide young people with something to do and somewhere to go as well as reduce carbon emissions and tackle climate change.
Tony Blair recently dropped in on a Barclays Spaces for Sports project in Trimdon in the heart of his Sedgefield constituency. He saw the progress being made in transforming a disused playing field into a brand new multi-games area which will provide much needed sporting facilities for people in Trimdon and the surrounding villages.
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