Greener Living & Working

Green Doctor

Most of us want to spend less on our bills and figure out how we can help the environment but there's sometimes too much information out there making it hard to know how to get started. 

Our Green Doctors help people save money on their water, electricity and gas bills; show how to recycle more and waste less together with installing simple measures in homes that will make heat, electricity and water go that bit further.  For corporates, factories and offices we offer a bespoke Environmental Business Service that walks staff through the necessary procedures to make sure organisations are on the right side of the law - as well as doing the right thing - when it comes to looking after the planet. 

Our energy and horticultural teams want homes and businesses to use fewer resources, to grow their own food and even generate their own green energy for the whole community. 

25 years of Groundwork Leeds

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.

Trick or Heat

Location: Pontarddulais As part if the Positive Energy Swansea programme the Groundwork BNPT team hosted a number of free halloween themed workshops and presentations across the rural Swansea area

LE Brand and Sons Ltd

Location: Standford-Le-Hope L.E. Brand & Sons Ltd are funeral directors in Stanford-le-Hope. They have recently purchased a new building that needed to have extensive refurbishment. They came to Low Carbon Business for help in making the building as energy efficient as possible.

Business Support: J Dickinson & Sons Ltd

Location: Bolton Supporting J Dickinson & Sons to help them make annual cost savings of over £700k

Bryce Meadows - The Grey Goose

Location: Rayleigh Bryce Meadows have completed the renovation of an old public house in Rochford with the opening of The Grey Goose in November 2011. Low Carbon Business assisted with the project by providing advice and funding towards energy efficient measures

Abbey Road Tanks

Location: Bootle, Merseyside A local food haulage company has saved £600,000 through Groundwork Merseyside’s ENWORKS-funded resource-efficiency advice.

ASP Packaging

Location: Haydock, Merseyside We helped ASP Packaging qualify for an investment grant thanks to our resource efficiency review.

Benson Signs

Location: Liverpool When a Merseyside sign-making company wanted to reduce costs and raise its profile, it came to Groundwork Merseyside to take advantage of a free ENWORKS-funded consultant to show it how.

Crosby Construction

Location: Liverpool Crosby Construction worked with Groundwork to help it bolster its credentials in the social housing market.

FRC Group

Location: Liverpool We've helped FRC Group businesses to implement an environmental management system and win plaudits for their environmental performance.