Groundwork UK

Groundwork UK

Groundwork UK is an environmental organisation in the United Kingdom.

History

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, and led by the Groundwork Foundation.

Priorities

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 worklessness.

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 trusts in the UK

*North West: Bury; Cheshire; Lancashire West & Wigan; Manchester,Salford & Trafford; Merseyside; Oldham & Rochdale; Pennine Lancashire; Tameside.
*North East: East Durham; Northumberland; South Tees; South Tyneside & Newcastle; West Durham & Darlington.
*Northern Ireland.
*Yorkshire & The Humber: Cresswell; Dearne Valley; Leeds; Selby; Sheffield; Wakefield.
*East Midlands: Ashfield & Mansfield, Newark & Sherwood; Cresswell; Derby & Derbyshire; Greater Nottingham; Leicester & Leicestershire; Lincolnshire; North Northamptonshire.
*West Midlands: Birmingham & Solihull; Black Country; Coventry & Warwickshire; Stoke-on-Trent.
*Wales: Bridgend & Neath Port Talbot; Caerphilly; Merthyr & Rhondda Cynon Taff; Wrexham & Flintshire.
*East of England: Hertfordshire; Luton & South Bedfordshire; South Essex.
*South West: Devon & Cornwall.
*South East: Thames Valley; Kent & Medway; Solent.
*London: East London; Meton; North London; Southwark and Lambeth; South East London; Thames Valley; West London.

ee also

*Groundwork Kent & Medway

*Groundwork Hertfordshire

External links

* [http://www.groundwork.org.uk Groundwork UK]
* [http://www.gwll.org.uk Website of Groundwork Leicester & Leicestershire]
* [http://www.groundwork-eastdurham.org.uk Website of Groundwork East Durham]
* [http://www.groundwork-eastofengland.org.uk Website of Groundwork East of England]
* [http://www.groundwork-herts.org.uk Website of Groundwork Hertfordshire]
* [http://www.groundwork-luton-southbedfordshire.org.uk Website of Groundwork Luton & South Bedfordshire]
* [http://www.gwor.co.uk Website of Groundwork Oldham & Rochdale]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем сделать НИР

Look at other dictionaries:

  • groundwork — UK US /ˈgraʊndwɜːk/ noun [U] ● lay the groundwork (for sth) Cf. lay the groundwork for sth …   Financial and business terms

  • Groundwork — Ground work (ground w[^u]rk ), n. That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle; as, development of a convenient DNA sequencing technique layed the groundwork for many of the …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • groundwork — index basis, cornerstone, foundation (basis), frame (structure), preparation, prerequisite Bur …   Law dictionary

  • groundwork — mid 15c., from GROUND (Cf. ground) (n.) + WORK (Cf. work) (n.). Cf. M.Du. grontwerck, Du. grondwerk, Ger. grundwerk. Originally the solid base on which a structure is built; figurative sense is from 1550s …   Etymology dictionary

  • groundwork — foundation, basis, ground, *base Antonyms: superstructure …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • groundwork — [n] basis, fundamentals ABCs*, background, base, bedrock*, cornerstone*, footing, foundation, ground, infrastructure, origin, preliminaries, preparation, root, substratum, underpinning, understructure; concepts 274,442,660,661 …   New thesaurus

  • groundwork — ► NOUN ▪ preliminary or basic work …   English terms dictionary

  • groundwork — [ground′wʉrk΄] n. a foundation; basis SYN. BASE1 …   English World dictionary

  • groundwork — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ basic ▪ legal, theoretical, etc. VERB + GROUNDWORK ▪ do, lay, prepare …   Collocations dictionary

  • groundwork — [[t]gra͟ʊndwɜː(r)k[/t]] N SING: the N, oft the N for n The groundwork for something is the early work on it which forms the basis for further work. Yesterday s meeting was to lay the groundwork for the task ahead... These courses provide the… …   English dictionary

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”