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.
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
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: Southwark, London Aylesbury Gardens is a community garden for residents to grow their own produce and have a safe place to meet each other and socialise. The space was constructed by participants in a Groundwork employment scheme called The Green Team that provides practical horticulture experience, training and qualifications.
Location: Ealing Moving Forward is a two year project funded by London Councils ESF Co-financing Programme. The aim of the project is for Groundwork London staff to engage with workless parents living in deprived areas of South and West London to support them into employment in the child-care and education and health and social care sectors.
Location: Windmill Park Estate The Windmill Park Estate, home to a high proportion of young people, was identified as a place with a distinct lack of positive leisure activities. This led to instances of antisocial behaviour and the whole estate becoming a designated Metropolitan Police dispersal area. Since January 2009, Groundwork London’s Sporting Chances project has provided weekly football activity sessions on the estate. This has led to some of the young people becoming qualified football coaches, who have since gone on to lead the sessions themselves, as well as forming their own football club.
Location: London Our New Horizons programme is providing young ex-offenders aged between 16 and 25 years old with voluntary work experience and routes back into sustainable training and employment.
Location: London The Green Team is a practical training programme that provides support for local unemployed people looking to get back into work.
Location: East London Through a programme of local and global volunteering, Roots n’ Wings supports young people aged 17-25 not in education, training or employment in East London to make a positive contribution to their communities and achieve economic success.
