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Services

Landscape Services – We deliver a variety of quality landscaping services whilst simultaneously training local people who are often the furthest away from the job market. Services include fencing, paving and planting.

Community Led Estate Improvements – Our landscape architects champion a community co-design approach which creates spaces which are sustained by the communities who use them. Our designs incorporate Nature Based Solutions which alleviate the impacts of climate change and link with our community engagement events.

Community Engagement Events – Our experienced and qualified communities and youth teams are passionate about connecting people with nature. We help to increase awareness about the climate emergency and empower communities to take practical steps which can alleviate local environmental pressures.

Home Refurbishment – We transform derelict and unsightly buildings into affordable homes for specialist groups, including care leavers and veterans.

Safety, Health, Environment, Quality & Sustainability (SHEQS) – Our team of qualified business consultants support in-house teams with SHEQS compliance and auditing.

Community Engagement Events – Our experienced and qualified communities and youth teams are passionate about connecting people with nature. We help to increase awareness about the climate emergency and empower communities to take practical steps which can alleviate local environmental pressures.

Home Refurbishment – We transform derelict and unsightly buildings into affordable homes for specialist groups, including care leavers and veterans.

Safety, Health, Environment, Quality & Sustainability (SHEQS) – Our team of qualified business consultants support in-house teams with SHEQS compliance and auditing.

Location

Trafford Ecology Park, Lake Road, Manchester, M17 1TU

We have office bases in Trafford, Rochdale and Tameside which service the Greater Manchester city region.

Social Value

Our mission is to create a greener, more resilient city region with stronger, healthier communities, responsible businesses and enhanced prospects for all local people. Through our work we provide training and create jobs, reduce energy and waste, re-connect people with nature and transform whole neighbourhoods.

We live by our company moto of ‘Changing Places, Changing Lives’ and design our services to deliver multiple benefits to Greater Manchester’s
communities.

Our business model is embedded with social value ideals; our landscaping service is focused on hiring unemployed people facing multiple barriers to employment and providing wrap-around support and signposting which lends itself to sustainable employment.

Case Study

Groundwork teamed up with Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) in 2009 to develop a programme to help address the high number of unemployed young people in the Rochdale borough whilst also tackling unsightly public places. Our highly successful Green Team model combines apprentices with employment, training and work experience on green-spaces across Rochdale.

“The Green Team initiatives have been highly successful. We are effectively supporting young unemployed local people as well as providing a well-received environmental service to our tenants, whilst at the same time further cementing our long standing partnership with Groundwork.” Paul Dockerty, Environmental Co-ordinator for Rochdale Boroughwide Housing