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.
Connect to our regional and local Groundwork Trusts.
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.
Further your career or help us make a difference.
How to contact our team
Groundwork has a long history of training people in many skills that enable them to both access and sustain employment opportunities.
Groundwork looks to develop programmes in areas that have been neglected, and communities that are disproportionately feeling the effects of recession.
Groundwork played a major role in delivering the Future Jobs Fund programme and is actively looking to see how it may particiapte as a delivery partner in new Apprenticeship and Green Deal initiatives.
Please see below for our related programmes of work and case studies.
Location: Houghton Regis The Green Team is a sixteen-week voluntary training scheme for unemployed young people. The scheme develops skills in outdoor environmental work and in addition participants are supported to complete a City & Guilds qualification in Land Based Studies.
Location: Houghton Regis In 2010, eight young people from Houghton Regis helped transform Plaiters Way green space on the north west edge of the town as part of a Green Skills training project.
Location: Dunstable This Green Skills project targeted adult residents on the Downside estate, Dunstable who were either economically inactive or in a low-skilled job. Volunteers involved in the project transformed the garden of the Downside Neighbourhood Centre.
Location: Braintree A six month employment programme for unemployed people in Braintree that provides work experience and horticultural skills.
Location: Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire Marks and Spencer staff from the Central East region volunteered to clear hawthorn scrub from grasslands near our office location, working alongside some of Groundwork Hertfordshire's Green Team and supervised by the Forest Centre's Head Ranger.
Location: Suffolk Coastal Suffolk Coastal District Council work with Groundwork East of England to utilise LABGI funding for SMEs in their District.
Location: South Essex A case study of Chris Adlam An Environmental Project Officer from our 1st group of young people on the Future Jobs Fund Project
Location: Southend Raising Aspirations focused on engaging with Southend businesses via the established connect south Essex CSR program, to help raise aspirations of Southend’s young people.
Location: South Essex Increasing the employability of young people
Location: Hertfordshire The Green Team is a sixteen-week voluntary training scheme for unemployed young people aged 16 – 25 with few or no qualifications.
