Groundwork is a skilled organisation dedicated to the regeneration of Stoke-on-Trent & Staffordshire and our projects embrace six themes:
Our Purpose
These programmes help to create opportunities for people and
businesses to take local action, forming better, safer and
healthier neighbourhoods. You can discover more about these teams
by exploring their individual pages on the menu to the left.
Groundwork’s six themes deliver benefits for:
People: creating opportunities for communities and individuals to
learn new skills and take local action.
Places: creating better, safer and healthier neighbourhoods by
enhancing the areas where people live, work, and spend their
leisure time.
Prosperity: helping businesses and the workforce to fulfil their
potential through improving their environmental performance and
competitiveness, creating training and employment opportunities and
supporting community regeneration.
Complete Approach
Groundwork recognises that people, places and prosperity are
inextricably linked and so aims to design projects that bring
benefits for all three over time. We believe this integrated
approach is vital if we are to bring about sustainable development,
i.e. 'meeting the needs of the present without compromising the
ability of future generations to meet their own needs'.
Our staff are knowledgeable, experienced and highly skilled in all
regenerative aspects, and very often we can help communities and
businesses more than they originally thought possible due to the
range of services and co-operation between teams on projects. All
teams interact and aim to develop work which tackles all areas of
regeneration, for example, a proposed community garden would be
designed in consultation with local residents and local schools,
while the physical work would be completed by the long term
unemployed.
‘A Neutral Player’
Groundwork is seen as a neutral player in the regeneration sphere,
this is because we are a non-profit organisation which creates a
link between the wider community and statutory agencies. We
also have the ability to access funding which other organisations
are unable to; our continued funding is a testament to the work
that Groundwork has achieved in the past and how we work to
contribute to national and local strategies such as the West
Midlands Economic Strategy. The Trust's funding requires
projects to be successfully delivered to time, budget and quality.
Funding sources include the Single Regeneration Budget, European
Regional Development Fund, European Social Fund, National Lottery,
landfill tax revenue and the private sector.
We try to reach people who would not otherwise get involved in
community programmes through environmental action and support them
by passing on practical skills. This approach, over time, enables
local people to take control of their environment and builds the
capacity and confidence of the community to take on other
responsibilities. This leads to increased sustainability as
communities take ownership of their local area and encourages civic
pride and cohesion.
The Story So
Far…
This year, Groundwork Stoke-on-Trent & Staffordshire has
completed more projects than ever before and has worked in
partnership with many organisations and individuals to make a big
difference to local people and their environment. In addition to
developing a host of closer and stronger partnerships, Groundwork
has also grown during the past 12 months. We now have a 70 strong
team of staff and have achieved a turnover of £3
million.
To find out more about Groundwork activities on a national level,
Click Here.
Groundwork Enterprise Centre
Albany Works
Moorland Road
Burslem
Stoke on Trent ST6 1EB
T : 01782 829900
F : 01782
829901
E : stokeontrent@
groundwork.org.uk
