Local Projects

Green Teams

Green Teams

Around half a million young people were ‘economically inactive’ – not in learning or employment and not looking for work - a number which is rising since Covid-19. Groundwork Green Teams teach practical horticulture and landscape skills to people who need support to get into employment.

Green Doctor

Green Doctor

Groundwork's Green Doctors are energy efficiency experts who visit people in their homes across the UK, helping vulnerable households to save money and stay warm and well. With 1 in 10 households in the UK experiencing fuel poverty, it's a crucial lifeline for many residents.

Community Food Growing Hubs

Community Food Growing Hubs

Community hubs provide fresh produce to support Luton’s residents and address issues of food poverty across the town.

Mind, Body and Soil

Mind, Body and Soil

A five day gardening and wellbeing focused course at Memorial Park, Luton to improve mental health, self esteem and confidence

Time after time E-Waste

Time after time E-Waste

More than 5 million disposable vapes are thrown away every week in the UK as their use soars. We want to build a local picture of understanding on the difficulties of recycling the vapes which contain metals such as lithium and copper. 

Green Recovery Project

Green Recovery Project

The Green Recovery Project is a partnership between Groundwork East and Huntingdon District Council with the aim to improve public spaces, boost biodiversity, and engage local communities.

Save Our Wild Isles Community Fund

Save Our Wild Isles Community Fund

Aviva, in partnership with WWF and the RSPB, is giving £1 million to support community groups across the UK to protect and restore nature in their local area.

Home Grown

Home Grown

Home Grown is an online course helping families to learn to grow and cook food together

Yellow Fish

Yellow Fish

Rivers are at the heart of a town or city’s historic, social, and economic development and provide an ecologically important green space for the local community.

Climate Clubs

Climate Clubs

Afterschool clubs for primary schools exploring climate change and the ways we can work together to help the planet

Sprouting Out

Sprouting Out

Groundwork East runs Sprouting Out to help to improve life skills including cooking and growing for those across the East of England.

Natural Neighbourhoods

Natural Neighbourhoods

Providing training and jobs for young people while improving parks and green spaces in the most deprived areas of the East, Midlands, and North.

City and Guilds Foundation

City and Guilds Foundation

Groundwork has partnered with the City & Guilds Foundation to launch a new employability programme aimed at helping offenders thrive in a growing market for ‘green skills’.

Laing Services to Schools

Laing Services to Schools

Schools across the East of England can get advice from Groundwork East to improve their outdoor learning offering.

Rediscovering the River Colne

Rediscovering the River Colne

Rediscovering the River Colne is a ground breaking project that aspires to bring the River Colne to the heart of Watford Town and its people. 

Junior River Wardens

Junior River Wardens

Junior River Wardens educates school pupils, youth and uniformed groups on the importance of maintaining the health of their local river and what they can do to preserve it across the East of England.

Teacher training in primary schools

Teacher training in primary schools

Across the East of England, Groundwork East's teacher training courses are tailored to the needs of the school focusing on learning outside the classroom with direct links to the National Curriculum.

Carbon Charter

Carbon Charter

The Carbon Charter recognises your business' green achievements.

Veg Fest

Veg Fest

Veg Fest is the inter-school growing competition that runs throughout the growing season, culminating in a celebration. It helps schools to set up and run their own growing club and run growing sessions, across the East of England.

EDGE employment support

EDGE employment support

EDGE signposts job seekers in and around Huntingdon to suitable roles and training, and works with local businesses to find applicants for their vacancies.

Green Team

Green Team

In the East of England, the Green Team provides support, training and work experience to help participants improve their landscaping skills, and employability whilst working on a real-life community project.

Teacher training in secondary schools

Teacher training in secondary schools

Groundwork East's teacher training workshops equip teachers with the tools to support young people, and offer best practice guidance for teachers in the East of England.

Open Door Service

Open Door Service

Our open door is a self-referral service for young people living in Central Bedfordshire who need low level support or require help accessing specialist services.

Team Building Days

Team Building Days

Groundwork can run an engaging team building day packed with benefits for your employees and the local environment in the East of England.

Wellies in the Woods

Wellies in the Woods

Groundwork runs courses that introduce families to the outdoors as a learning environment, and as a place to improve their health and well-being, across the East of England.

Get Outdoors, Get Active

Get Outdoors, Get Active

Groundwork East's horticultural therapy programmes encourage adults and young adults to learn and enjoy gardening and food growing techniques to improve their physical & mental health and well-being, across the East of England.

Youth centres

Youth centres

Groundwork East runs youth centres across Bedfordshire.

Green Skills

Green Skills

Green Skills is a motivational project that is often a final stepping stone into employment and offers a taster of the construction and landscaping industries, across the East of England.

Grow It, Cook It, Share It

Grow It, Cook It, Share It

Groundwork runs courses across the East of England that introduce families to growing and cooking, to improve their health and well-being.

Really Wild Play

Really Wild Play

Groundwork's wild play sessions teach families how to use the outdoors to play and learn, across the East of England.