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NEWS – Introducing Groundwork Greater Manchester’s Community-Led Nature Stewardship Package
Friday 5th September 2025 marks the launch of the Greater Manchester Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS); a ten-year plan to restore, protect and connect habitats, making nature part of how the city region grows and develops. As part of the launch, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority will host a round table event with Mayor Andy…
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BLOG – Natural spaces as Live Well spaces: The role of Green Community Hubs
The Live Well movement is reshaping how Greater Manchester supports health and wellbeing. Its ambition is to focus more on prevention, by creating centres and spaces where people can find support, connection, and opportunity. At Groundwork Greater Manchester, we believe natural spaces are essential to this vision, and that Green Community Hubs show how they…
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NEWS – Groundwork Launches ISEP Pathways to Net Zero Training
Groundwork is thrilled to announce the launch of its expert-led, in-person ISEP Pathways to Net Zero training, specially crafted to empower organisational leaders and managers with accredited sustainability strategies that effectively drive Net Zero ambitions. Groundwork’s sustainability consultants will be delivering the two-day accredited ISEP Pathways to Net Zero course in-person in three UK location…
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BLOG – Retrofitting Homes to be More Resilient for Extreme Weather Events
Page contents A Climate Turning Point On 14 July 2025, the Met Office released its annual climate stocktake, which confirmed that extremes of heat and rainfall in the UK are ‘becoming the norm’. It showed average UK temperatures have been rising around 0.25 °C per decade since the 1980s, with both record heat and floods increasing…
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BLOG – How Nature Based Solutions Can Help Tackle Rising Temperatures in Greater Manchester
Introduction Greater Manchester, like the rest of the UK, is experiencing the undeniable impacts of climate change. We’re seeing more frequent and intense heatwaves, and our urban areas are particularly susceptible to the ‘Urban Heat Island Effect’ (UHI), where built-up environments absorb and re-emit heat more than natural landscapes. This phenomenon can make city centres…
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BLOG – Our partnership with City & Guilds to help develop Green Skills in the construction sector
A new report from City & Guilds reveals that 76% of construction businesses are struggling to hire skilled workers – putting pressure on the UK’s goal of delivering 1.5 million new homes by 2029. Groundwork has been working alongside City & Guilds and the wider construction sector to attract a more diverse range of talent…
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NEWS – Groundwork GM Accredited as a Platinum Carbon Literate Organisation
We are delighted to announce that we have been accredited as a Platinum Carbon Literate Organisation by the UN-recognised Carbon Literacy Project. This prestigious accreditation recognises our commitment to upskill our people, and those we work with, to play a proactive role in reducing our organisational carbon emissions, and work towards a zero carbon future.…
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BLOG – Great Big Green Week 2025!
The Great Big Green Week is the UK’s biggest celebration of community action to tackle climate change and protect nature. From 7th to 15th June 2025, communities across the country will unite to make positive environmental changes. Groundwork Greater Manchester is proud to participate for a third year in this campaign, celebrating the organisers vision…
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BLOG – Supporting The Community Wealth Fund Alliance
Research by Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion (OCSI) and Local Trust has identified 225 neighbourhoods that have a double disadvantage: the highest levels of deprivation and the weakest social infrastructure. If we are to improve outcomes for the people that live in those 225 neighbourhoods, it is going to take investment at a hyper-local level over a long…
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NEWS – 1% For The Planet Donation from Jones and Co.
Jones and Co. are a styling opticians based on King Street in Manchester. As an organisation, in 2021 they made the decision to become certified as a 1% For The Planet company. This scheme does exactly what the name suggests; its passes 1% of company profits onto charities who help look after the planet. In…
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NEWS – Announcing Groundwork’s Sustainable Business Membership Scheme
Groundwork’s Sustainable Business Membership scheme is a comprehensive program aimed at empowering organizations to embed sustainability into their operations and achieve measurable environmental and social impact. Click to read more.
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NEWS – Groundwork at the Resolve Poverty Conference 2025
The Resolve Poverty Conference on Thursday 13th March 2025 brought together people from across the country who work to tackle poverty and boost household incomes. The event focused on sharing expertise and hearing insights from leading experts on effective policy and practical responses to poverty. As a charity, Groundwork Greater Manchester supports people to improve…