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Groundwork is a group of charities helping people and organisations make changes in order to create better neighbourhoods, to build skills and job prospects, and to live and work in a greener way.We know that the important issues are all connected – so our work can’t easily be placed in boxes marked 'environmental issues’, 'regeneration', 'employment' or 'health'.

We create projects and services that benefit both people and the wider environment.We operate across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and work on thousands of individual projects each year. We focus our activity on disadvantaged communities where we can make most difference.We work towards a vision – of a society of sustainable communities which are vibrant, healthy and safe, which respect the local and global environment and where individuals and enterprise prosper.

Creating those sustainable communities means developing initiatives which cut across economics, social issues and the environment. Our work is diverse, but all of it helps to achieve our vision.We create real change. That means carrying out work locally, regionally and nationally that:In the recession of the early 1980s, the environment and social cohesion of many parts of the country was under threat. The collapse of traditional industries with associated environmental degradation and conflict within communities called for a new response.

Groundwork was born out of a competition for local authorities won by St Helens. ‘Operation Groundwork’ was described by the then Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine as ‘an entrepreneurial team, which could act independently as an enabler to mobilise all the resources in the community - public, private and voluntary’.

The first Groundwork Trust was so successful that areas around the country applied to duplicate the experiment. Over the following decades, we expanded geographically and also our work became more diverse as each Trust responded to local circumstances and innovated.We’re now a federation of charities with a membership based on a mixture of local trusts and regional organisations, with Groundwork UK acting as a national voice and co-ordinator. From small beginnings in St Helens, we now work across English regions, Wales and Northern Ireland.

For more information visit www.groundwork.org.uk

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