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.
Without people in meaningful work, communities cannot function. We help people to retrain, gain confidence and gain valuable work experience.
From structured volunteering to formal placements with employers, we help people move on a journey towards employment.
We operate different skills programmes in different places, but they are all about motivation and changing lives. Often our programmes are linked to improving the local environment or growing new skills for a greener economy.
Location: Leeds 2012 sees the 25th anniversary of Groundwork Leeds. Find out how the Trust began and explore some of the wonderful projects we've been involved in with local people over the last quarter of a century.
Location: Leeds Damian achieved amazing things on our Foundation Learning course, Innov8, having left school disillusioned and demotivated...
Location: Leeds A group of young people on our Foundation Learning courses helped develop the grounds of a local youth centre, putting their newly acquired skills to good use.
Location: Catterick Andrew is a 24 year old ex-soldier who left the Army in 2010, after five and a half years service which saw him tour Afghanistan twice. Here he speaks about his experience on going on the Force 4 Change programme.
Location: Wakefield Tracey Andrews, 46 lives in Castleford with her partner and children. She has been out of work for a significant period of time after having been made redundant until she was informed about the Future Jobs Fund Programme.
Location: Sheffield Identifying meaningful, green job opportunities with clear community benefits for young jobseekers.
Location: Sheffield The Bee Buddies project helped to tackle the national issue of honeybee decline by creating sustainable apiaries in the heart of Sheffield, managed by local communities.
Location: Dearne Valley Our community bike enterprise that gets people cycling and re-uses unwanted bikes.
Location: 4 workshops on climate change for Groundwork Landscape Architects
Location: Rotherham Giving young people without skills a fresh chance of progress.
