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The main themes of our work and some of our most important initiatives.
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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.
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Through our work we improve people’s health both directly and indirectly. We run specific initiatives such as walking schemes, but much of our work helping to improve lives in disadvantaged communities affects the wider determinants of health.
We provide the facilities and support to help people become more physically active and make healthier lifestyle choices. We’ve found that encouraging people to value, use and improve open spaces is one of the most effective ways of kick-starting a revival in the fortunes of damaged communities and also helping people adopt healthier lifestyles. We create and improve footpaths and cycleways, involve people in physical work like digging and planting and encourage healthy eating by helping them grow their own fruit and vegetables on local allotment sites. Improving physical and mental wellbeing is a major outcome of many of our programmes. Spending time outdoors can also aid recovery from or help coping with long-term illnesses.
Our connections within communities and our ability to work holistically across sectors means we’re an important partner for many Primary Care Trusts and other NHS organisations.
For more detail on local services, see the website of your local Groundwork Trust.
Location: Heywood We help staff from York House Surgery reduce the environmental impact of their activities and cut their carbon footprint.
Location: Oldham We trained a group of local volunteers to help people in their homes with the aim of combating fuel poverty.
Location: Cheshire The Out and About Project aims to help improve your health in a fun and exciting way.
Location: Blackpool Helping local people to improve health and social care services
Location: Merseyside Groundwork Merseyside were commissioned by Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (WUTHFT) to operate a scheme that allowed for contractors to work safely and to carefully manage their environmental impact when on site.
Location: Blackpool Grow Blackpool is a new initiative that aims to improve the health and wellbeing of people through gardening and growing
Location: Derker, Oldham We created a new play area at Stoneleigh Park - the first of our Playbuilder commissions.
