Our objectives
Groundwork London creates and deliver services to meet the needs of London and Londoners by:
- Improving people’s prospects – delivering support to help young people and adults improve their health and wellbeing, increase their confidence, skills and help those out of work find jobs
- Promoting greener living and working – helping people, organisations and businesses understand their environmental impact and take action to reduce carbon footprints, water consumption, waste, food and fuel poverty; and respond to climate, water and nature emergencies
- Creating better places – supporting people to work collaboratively to make their surroundings greener, more resilient, safer and healthier; and enabling people to work together, take action and bring about change in their local area
Our activities
Groundwork London delivers high quality, innovative actions with multiple economic, social and environmental benefits through:
Climate Action: Empowering Londoners to tackle climate change through education, co-production, and sustainable action.
Green infrastructure: Providing leading technical expertise in sustainable urban landscape design, Nature Based Solutions and climate change adaptation.
Youth work: Delivering coaching, mental health support and engaging activities to empower young people to develop their life skills and achieve their potential.
Social integration: Using a community participation approach to create stronger, more cohesive communities, to improve the quality of life and opportunity.
Employment and Skills: Providing personal advice and guidance, training, work experience and job brokerage.
Green Jobs: Promoting the growth of green jobs, raising awareness of them and providing practical, attainable routeways for disadvantaged job seekers.
Health & Wellbeing: Encouraging physical activity, promoting healthy lifestyles, supporting personalised care and the prevention of poor health and addressing environmental causes of health problems and tackling health inequalities.
Community spaces: Enabling community led environmental improvements and co-creation of open spaces.
Resource efficiency: Reducing waste, energy and water consumption through advice and action.
Volunteering: Brokering volunteering opportunities for individuals and organisations.
Grants Management: Providing grants administration and consultancy services for public, third sector and private partners to distribute funding to delivery organisations through small and large grants programmes.
Innovation and development: Investing in innovative ideas and development to meet London’s changing needs.
