Our aims and objectives, impact on the ground and how we operate as a federation of charities.
The main themes of our work and some of our most important initiatives.
Connect to our regional and local Groundwork Trusts.
What we can do for the wide range of people and organisations that we work with.
Find out the latest about how we're changing places and lives.
Campaigns and ways you can support our work.
Further your career or help us make a difference.
How to contact our team nationally and around the country
Through our work we improve people’s health both directly and indirectly. We run specific initiatives such as walking schemes, but much of our work helping to improve lives in disadvantaged communities affects the wider determinants of health.
We’ve found that encouraging people to value, use and improve open spaces is one of the most effective ways of kick-starting a revival in the fortunes of damaged communities and also helping people adopt healthier lifestyles. Through our work, more people are encouraged to walk, cycle and exercise, and we support food growing and healthy eating initiatives in many areas.
Improving mental wellbeing is a major outcome of many of our youth and employment programmes.
Our connections within communities and our ability to work holistically across sectors means we’re an important partner for many Primary Care Trusts and other NHS organisations. In the Northwest we manage ‘Target: Wellbeing’ – a major lottery funded public health initiative.
Location: Leeds 2012 sees the 25th anniversary of Groundwork Leeds. Find out how the Trust began and explore some of the wonderful projects we've been involved in with local people over the last quarter of a century.
Location: Heywood We help staff from York House Surgery reduce the environmental impact of their activities and cut their carbon footprint.
Location: Oldham We trained a group of local volunteers to help people in their homes with the aim of combating fuel poverty.
Location: Luton, Bedfordshire Groundwork's successful Mind, Body & Soil horticultural therapy programme comes to Bedfordshire, with our first project launched in April 2011 at Harry Scott Court Residential Housing Unit in Luton.
Location: Cheshire The Out and About Project aims to help improve your health in a fun and exciting way.
Location: Blackpool Helping local people to improve health and social care services
Location: Leicester At the start of December 2010, Groundwork Leicester & Leicestershire’s Family Learning Project undertook a user survey to review the impact the project had made in the community over the past 2 years.
Location: Merseyside Groundwork Merseyside were commissioned by Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (WUTHFT) to operate a scheme that allowed for contractors to work safely and to carefully manage their environmental impact when on site.
Location: Blackpool Grow Blackpool is a new initiative that aims to improve the health and wellbeing of people through gardening and growing
Location: Leicester In May 2010, Groundwork were approached by Leicester Bikeability for the second year in a row to organise an event rewarding children for completing their Bikeability training. The resulting partnership between Groundwork, Cyclemagic and Leicester City Co
