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
At Groundwork we believe that the single most useful thing we can do for someone is to help them find a job. Our teams get to know people, find out what they are good at, get them into training or help them develop their skills. Very often we can use our years of experience in looking after public parks and pieces of land around housing estates to give people the skills they need to work on a council or housing association parks team. We also specialise in offering construction skills training. Sometimes we can help people go to college to get a much needed qualification, other times we can give them enough advice on their CV and interviewing skills so they can land a job. Last year, thousands of people got into work because of Groundwork. Our skills and employment teams want to help people out of poverty by fostering social enterprise and embracing every opportunity to offer training, apprenticeships or jobs.
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: 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: Catterick Andrew is a 24 year old ex-soldier who left the Army in 2010, after five and a half years service which saw him tour Afghanistan twice. Here he speaks about his experience on going on the Force 4 Change programme.
Location: Rochdale Helping local unemployed people to gain new skills and work experience whilst making improvements to their neighbourhood.
Location: Liverpool Crosby Construction worked with Groundwork to help it bolster its credentials in the social housing market.
Location: Wakefield Tracey Andrews, 46 lives in Castleford with her partner and children. She has been out of work for a significant period of time after having been made redundant until she was informed about the Future Jobs Fund Programme.
Location: Rochdale Providing opportunities to previously unemployed young people whilst enhancing public spaces across Rochdale.
