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.
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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.
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Each year Groundwork East of England carries out a strategic review and prepares a Business Plan for the coming year. The work we do follows the key needs of the region, taking account of what is happening in the external policy environment. Currently our work follows 3 themes:
Focusing on key themes
Pathways to Employment: new programmes, including apprenticeship programmes and volunteering as a route to getting jobs, and in doing so helping to contribute to economic growth. In this we aim to particularly see how we can help young people.
Low Carbon Communities: Developing our carbon reduction work with small businesses through our business advisors and working with local communities on Green Doctor, Green Behaviours and Warmer Home projects, particularly with the social housing sector. We also work with school communities to help them embody the need for resource efficiency into their school estate and curriculum activities with students.
Green Infrastructure and Green space: supporting existing providers and delivery bodies as well as delivering projects ourselves, responding to the global challenges of climate change and regional challenges of housing and infrastructure growth. This work covers urban as well as larger countryside projects and linear corridors such as rail, road and rivers and canals.
We are keen to develop more agendas in partnership with funders and other organisations. In 2011-12 for every £1 Groundwork invested in the East of England we were able to attract a further £7 for the communities we work with.
