Groundwork UK is an
environmental organisation
An environmental organization is an organization coming out of the conservation or environmental movements
that seeks to protect, analyse or monitor the environment against misuse or degradation from human forces.
In this sense the environment ...
in the
United Kingdom. It is based in Birmingham and is a
registered charity
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The legal definition of a ch ...
under English law.
History
In 1980, the
Countryside Commission launched an initiative known as UFEX80. This was re-branded as "Operation Groundwork" in 1981, and the first Groundwork Trust came into being at
St. Helens and
Knowsley that year. The organisation has been known as Groundwork UK since then, within a
federation of individual Groundwork Trusts.
Priorities
Groundwork UK aims to improve the quality of life throughout the
UK. Its priorities are people, places and prosperity, and it aims to build safer and stronger communities, to promote health and well-being, to support local economies, to promote environmental
sustainability
Specific definitions of sustainability are difficult to agree on and have varied in the literature and over time. The concept of sustainability can be used to guide decisions at the global, national, and individual levels (e.g. sustainable livi ...
, to
combat climate change, to provide young people with something to do, and to tackle unemployment.
It works locally, regionally and nationally, through public, private and voluntary partnerships in
England,
Wales and
Northern Ireland.
Groundwork UK does not have any local trusts in
Scotland, but it works with Scottish charities and agencies.
Groundwork is one of the steering group partners of
Neighbourhoods Green Neighbourhoods Green is an English partnership initiative which works with social landlords and housing associations to highlight the importance of open and green space for residents and raise the overall quality of design and management with thes ...
, a partnership initiative that works with social landlords and housing associations to highlight the importance of, and raise the overall quality of design and management for, open and green space in social housing.
Groundwork Trusts in the UK
*North West: Bury; Cheshire; Lancashire West & Wigan (created by merger 2015); Manchester, Salford, Stockport, Tameside & Trafford (created by merger July 2008); Merseyside; Oldham & Rochdale; Pennine Lancashire.
*Groundwork North East & Cumbria: Covering - County Durham, Northumberland, Middlesbrough, Stockton-On-Tees, Redcar and Cleveland, Hartlepool, Darlington, Sunderland and Cumbria.
*Northern Ireland.
*Yorkshire & The Humber: Creswell, Ashfield & Mansfield; Dearne Valley; Leeds; Selby; Sheffield; Wakefield.
*East Midlands: Newark & Sherwood; Creswell, Ashfield & Mansfield; Derby & Derbyshire; Greater Nottingham; Leicester & Leicestershire; Lincolnshire; North Northamptonshire.
*West Midlands: Birmingham & Solihull; Black Country; Coventry & Warwickshire; Stoke-on-Trent.
*Wales: Bridgend & Neath Port Talbot; Caerphilly; Merthyr & Rhondda Cynon Taff; Wrexham & Flintshire.
*East of England: Hertfordshire; Bedfordshire; Essex; Cambridgeshire; Suffolk; Norfolk.
*South West: Devon & Cornwall; Bristol; Dorset; Gloucestshire; Somerset; Wiltshire; Bath & North East Somerset; South Gloucestershire.
*South East: Thames Valley; Kent & Medway; Solent.
*London: East London; Meton; North London; Southwark and Lambeth; South East London; Thames Valley; West London.
See also
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Environmental direct action in the United Kingdom
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Environmental issues in the United Kingdom
This page lists the issues that the United Kingdom currently has that are related to the environment, such as pollution and contamination.
In 2015, it was reported that for the past decade, the state of the environment in the UK had significant ...
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United Kingdom environmental law
United Kingdom environmental law concerns the protection of the environment in the United Kingdom. Environmental law is increasingly a European and an international issue, due to the cross border issues of air and water pollution, and man-made c ...
References
External links
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Environmental organisations based in the United Kingdom
1981 establishments in the United Kingdom
Organizations established in 1981
Charities based in Birmingham, West Midlands