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
Groundwork can work with local authorities to help support communities gain employment.
We help people to retrain, gain confidence and gain valuable work experience. From structured volunteering to formal placements with employers, we help people move on a journey back towards employment.
We operate different skills programmes in different places, but they are all about motivation and changing lives. Often our programmes are linked to improving the local environment or growing new skills for a greener economy
In some areas we are a sub-contactor in the delivery of DWP employment schemes while in others we are playing our part in the new Future Jobs Fund.
We always try to go the extra mile and be creative with our services – for us the unemployed are people with great potential, not clients who help us tick boxes for outputs.
If you’d like to talk to Groundwork about opportunities for working together on this agenda, please contact your local Trust.
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: Shaw, Oldham Equipping learners aged 16+ with a range of conservation skills in addition to an accredited qualification.
Location: Leeds Damian achieved amazing things on our Foundation Learning course, Innov8, having left school disillusioned and demotivated...
Location: Bolton Supporting J Dickinson & Sons to help them make annual cost savings of over £700k
Location: Rochdale An innovative voluntary training project that combines housing regeneration and support for unemployed people.
Location: Leeds A group of young people on our Foundation Learning courses helped develop the grounds of a local youth centre, putting their newly acquired skills to good use.
Location: Rochdale Helping local unemployed people to gain new skills and work experience whilst making improvements to their neighbourhood.
Location: St Helens Stanley Bank Triangle was a hive of industry hundreds of years ago. Now, thanks to a Heritage Lottery Grant of £865,500 the site is being sensitively conserved as a place of unique industrial heritage.
Location: EcoHouse, 459 Hinckley Road, Leicester. Staff from Groundwork Leicester and Leicestershire’s Future Jobs Fund scheme have rebuilt the EcoHouse play area using locally sourced timber.
Location: Rochdale Providing opportunities to previously unemployed young people whilst enhancing public spaces across Rochdale.
