People
The majority of Groundwork’s work centres on work with
people. We use the shared open spaces in local areas as the
mechanism for encouraging the different sections within a community
to work together. Most Groundwork projects are developed through
consultation and in conjunction with local people.
Encouraging people who would not normally take action to work
together helps to break down some of the barriers to community
cohesion and helps create a sense of local pride for an area. We
listen to the problems that local people face and then create
programmes of work designed to tackle some of those identified
issues.
In some places, young people lead on their own projects designed to
engage them in practical changes to their local environment, which
in turn reduces antisocial behaviour as they develop a respect for
their local area. Groundwork offers a supporting hand but young
people devise and decide upon their own projects – and
wherever possible, we turn their ideas into reality.
Groundwork aims to bring even the most excluded isolated groups
into the transformation process, forging links between different
cultures and age groups through the medium of land.
Groundwork South East
18-21 Morley Street
London
SE1 7QZ
| T | 020 7922 1230 |
| F | 020 7922 1219 |
| E |
southeastregion@ groundwork.org.uk |