Our Impact

Youth planting plant with wind turbine in background Each year we make an incredible impact on the ground.

Our local programmes and services are tailored to the needs of partners and communities in that locality. When all that local activity is added together, it becomes a major national force for change.

We work on over 150 physical environmental improvement projects each year – focused on disadvantaged communities. We measure our impact in various ways – for example area of land improved and amount of carbon saved – but what’s most important is how we change people’s lives.

During 2008-2009 throughout Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham we have:

Improved 198,680 square metres of land.
Maintained over 528,220 square metres of land.
Organised 5,120 days of activity by young people.
Provided 830 weeks of training, mainly for young people.
Enabled 127 formal qualifications to be achieved.
Actively involved 96 schools.
Planted 5,945 trees, over 2,700 more than last year.
Involved 855 adults in days of project activity.

We carried out a total of 260 projects, comprising:

159 physical environmental improvement projects.
94 education and community involvement projects.
7 integrating the economy and the environment projects.

Read more about our impact in Groundwork's national Impact Report