Groundworks South West and Community Spaces Grants
Groundwork works with community groups to help them to make changes to local places, to improve their environmental awareness or to help them engage with local decision making.
Often where Groundwork works depends on funding opportunities and its organisational capacity, but it is always worth contacting the organisation to see what it can do in your area.
Work Groundworks carry out includes things like:
- Improving community spaces such as creating community gardens, improving parks and play areas, or transforming derelict land in to usable green spaces.
- Providing activities for young people, such as sports, practical conservation volunteering or multi-media projects.
- Supporting local environmental campaigns, such as increasing recycling rates or Streets In Bloom competitions.
- Providing training for people who want to learn more about gardening and horticultural skills such as food growing, within their communities.
- Helping communities to set up healthy living projects and activities, such as walking schemes, community sports programmes or food growing in tubs and window boxes.
Nationally, Groundwork manages the lottery funded Community Spaces grant programme, which helps people to improve local spaces. For more information on those grants see www.community-spaces.org.uk
For further information about Groundwork and the services it can offer, go to: http://www.southwest.groundwork.org.uk/default.aspx
last updated on 13th May 2011