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BLOG – How Groundwork Provides Valuable Work Opportunities For People On Their Employment Programmes
In this post we explore how our commercial Landscaping service supports those furthest from the employment market in to sustainable, green employment. Background Groundwork are no stranger to providing training and employment courses for those who are unemployed. Since our initiation in the 1980’s Groundwork has supported thousands of people into employment and despite trends…
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BLOG – Can Growing Your Own Food Make A Difference?
For those seeking more ways to reduce their environmental impact, food growing is a great way to make a difference, even in winter. Despite the cold weather, many varieties of vegetables can be still be grown. Over 7 million people in the UK started to grow their own food for the first time during the…
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BLOG – Why We Need to Retrofit & Rethink Our Homes
As Britain enters a winter of soaring energy bills, an increasing number of people in the UK are struggling to keep their homes warm. The sector wide price surge has restricted people’s ability to ‘switch suppliers’ therefore a new focus is emerging, focusing instead at how our homes are constructed and insulated. This switch is…
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GUEST BLOG – Nature As A Healer
A blog by Rhoda Wilkinson, Nature and Wellbeing Manager at The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside A need for nature It’s felt increasingly true in recent years ‘that necessity is the mother of all invention’ and it’s often how we in the voluntary sector develop, responding to community need. The Wildlife Trust have for…
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BLOG – Five Top Tips for Creating Your Eco Street
Eco Streets was developed by Groundwork Greater Manchester as part of the IGNITION project. The aim was to support communities to transform unused outdoor areas into exciting green spaces, which featured nature-based-solutions that help alleviate climate change. Since the project launched, we’ve helped to transform 4 areas around Greater Manchester, with the help of some amazing…
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BLOG – Groundwork Greater Manchester’s Aspirations for Biodiversity Net Gain On Nature Sites
In this blog, our Head of Neighbourhoods, Phil Treaton, shares insight into what Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) is, and how Groundwork is using BNG to improve our nature sites. Protecting and Enhancing Nature Groundwork Greater Manchester (GM) own just over 22 hectares of land within Greater Manchester across 5 sites, the site are all different…
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BLOG – The Importance Of Orchards In Urban Communities
Orchards are a space dedicated to growing fruit trees, nut trees, or even sugar maples. The size of an orchard can vary from hundreds of trees over a vast stretch of land, to just five trees planted closely together! Orchards have been a staple part of the UK’s landscape, giving us access to local fresh…
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BLOG – Introducing Green Thumbs Community Garden In Brinnington
Brinnington Big Local is a lottery-funded programme seeking to make lasting change by taking a community-led approach. A group of passionate and skilled volunteers regularly consult with their community to identify local needs and from there, coordinate projects and activities which meet them. Two of the long-term priorities in the area are food poverty and…
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NEWS – Walney Road Woodland Brook Community Clean-Up
A total of 66 bags of ancient rubbish, including large objects such as a mattress, tyres and an old toaster were unearthed from the woodland and brook. The Walney Road Woodland is a relatively small forest area situated in the middle of a residential area in Sharston, Wythenshawe. The urban greenspace is home to lots…
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BLOG – Greater Manchester’s Greatest Greenspaces
Everyone has different opinions on what makes the perfect park or green space. For families, it might be a traditional park with a playground and activities for their little ones. For dog walkers, it might be a wide-open space for their furry friends to run around in. For older people, it might be a nearby,…
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BLOG – Friends Groups around Greater Manchester
For many years, friends group volunteers around Greater Manchester have actively contributed to the management, upkeep and promotion of our local parks and green spaces. In this blog, we’ll be highlighting some of the fantastic friends groups in Greater Manchester, and share how you can get involved. Friends of Alkrington Woods Location: Manchester Old Rd, Rhodes,…
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GUEST BLOG – Putting Disabled People at the Heart of Active Living
Even in 2022, disabled people are still facing challenges when it comes to accessing and enjoying our street spaces. In 2021 the Office of National Statistics reported that disabled people in the UK aged 16-64 had poorer ratings than non-disabled people on all four personal wellbeing measures, including life satisfaction, feeling like things they do…