Contact Us

For more information about our services please contact:

Peter Christmas
Development Manager            01582 720147
peter.christmas@groundwork.org.uk

Local Authorities

We work closely with Bedford Borough Council, Central Bedfordshire Council and Luton Borough Council to help them shape their places and improve local quality of life.  Groundwork is an organisation that can translate the concepts of the 'Big Society' and localism into powerful reality.

We can work with you to develop bespoke projects that deliver for local people and for your targets.  Our projects range from relatively straightforward contract work, to entrepreneurial, experimental, risk taking projects that are innovative and creative and that solve problems.

Groundwork sits on local structures around the county. We have a shared understanding of the local area and local priorities which gives us a head start in creating initiatives that will really work on the ground.

Our work includes:

We can offer local authorities:

  • Project management of any environmental improvement project, including seeking planning permissions, coordinating partners, managing contractors, involving the community and volunteers
  • Community consultations
  • Youth consultations and youth work activities
  • Landscape design
  • New play and sports facilities
  • Improved planting schemes
  • New cycle ways, walkways and disabled access routes
  • Management of heritage projects
  • Fundraising expertise to bring in match funding for projects that only charities can access
  • Carbon reduction and climate change
  • Consultation and neighbourhood planning
  • Green space management / maintenance through our innovative training programme

We make a difference

Thank you for all the hard work you and your team put in to provide the much anticipated improvement to Acworth Court, I have only heard good comments about it. 

Heather Hammond, Luton Borough Council