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the community environment team

Our Community Environment Team is a diverse team working, across three key areas: Education and Youth; Health, and Community and Environment.

We encourage local people, local businesses, and other organisations to become involved in practical projects that improve quality of life, bring about regeneration and lay the foundations for sustainable development. These projects are delivered with support from our Land Team, Learning & Work Team, and Creative Media Team; offering a complete service to our customers. Our team aims to work in partnership with our customers through consultation, whilst capacity building and empowering communities to make positive changes to their environment and their lives.

Education and Youth
Education is a key factor in growing sustainable communities. Our Education and Youth Team deliver an exciting and wide range of projects, engaging children and young people in a variety of activities. Working with schools, colleges, youth groups and after school clubs, we use a range of techniques to gain involvement. Some of our key areas of work include:

Citizenship and alternative curriculum programmes
Improving school grounds
Environmental youth work
Environmental education
Education for sustainable development (e.g. waste and recycling projects)
Youth consultation

Health
We aim to work with communities to deliver projects which will positively benefit their mental and physical well-being. Our Health Team works with communities and individuals to:

Promote healthy lifestyles
Encourage healthy eating
Deliver health-related activities (with schools and other groups)
Regenerate allotment use through community involvement
Encourage and train volunteers

We have close working relationships with health professionals and enjoy partnership working with health authorities, primary care trusts and other health organisations.

Community and Environment
Groundwork strives to manage, maintain or improve all environments, from small green spaces to Local Nature Reserves.

We encourage communities to utilise and value their local environment, as well as appreciate the delicate balance between wildlife and people. Our Community and Environment Team aims to:

  • Work in partnership to develop Local Nature Reserves
  • Maintain and manage existing Local Nature Reserves
  • Work to improve access to green spaces
  • Research and design routeways leaflets
  • Actively involve volunteers and local people in practical tasks where possible
  • Establish and work alongside ‘Friends of’ groups
  • Contribute to local interpretation of sites
  • Deliver local ‘Walking for Health’ programmes

We have a number of service level agreements with councils.

Meet the Community Environment Team here >>>