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Groundwork UK is an environmental organisation in the United Kingdom. It is based in Birmingham and is a registered charity under English law. [1]
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Groundwork UK is an environmental organisation in the United Kingdom. It is based in Birmingham and is a registered charity under English law. [1]
In 1980, the Countryside Commission launched an initiative known as UFEX80. This was re-branded as "Operation Groundwork" in 1981, and the first Groundwork Trust came into being at St. Helens and Knowsley that year. The organisation has been known as Groundwork UK since then, within a federation of individual Groundwork Trusts.
Groundwork UK aims to improve the quality of life throughout the UK. Its priorities are people, places and prosperity, and it aims to build safer and stronger communities, to promote health and well-being, to support local economies, to promote environmental sustainability, to combat climate change, to provide young people with something to do, and to tackle unemployment.
It works locally, regionally and nationally, through public, private and voluntary partnerships in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Groundwork UK does not have any local trusts in Scotland, but it works with Scottish charities and agencies.
Groundwork is one of the steering group partners of Neighbourhoods Green, a partnership initiative that works with social landlords and housing associations to highlight the importance of, and raise the overall quality of design and management for, open and green space in social housing.
The Wildlife Trusts, the trading name of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, is an organisation made up of 46 local Wildlife Trusts in the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and Alderney. The Wildlife Trusts, between them, look after more than 2,300 nature reserves, covering around 98,500 hectares. As of 2020, the Trusts have a combined membership of over 870,000 members.
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