About Groundwork West Midlands
At Groundwork West Midlands we are passionate about creating a future where the community is at its heart, one that is vibrant and green and one in which everyone can shape their own destiny and reach their potential.
We pride ourselves on being a community charity with a green heart, working across the whole of the West Midlands, including Birmingham, Stoke on Trent, the Black Country and Coventry.
For more than 40 years we have been supporting and working alongside our local communities to build better, greener lives. We help people tackle climate change, combat fuel poverty and navigate the cost of living crisis.
We are also committed to improving skills, getting people back into work and inspiring the next generation of community champions and green leaders.
We rely on the support of a huge range of individuals and organisations to do all we do. We can work with you to improve lives in a particular neighbourhood or city or collaborate on a UK-wide programme. Your time could be of huge value to our work, and in turn we can help develop your skills and support you to improve your local community.
Please support our vision for a society made up of sustainable communities.
Read our policy reports
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What’s a working life worth?
For those who witness at first hand the devastating and demoralising effects of long-term worklessness, talk of efficiency and economics is at best immaterial and at worst insulting. For them, as it should be for all of us, one life wasted is one too many. Graham Duxbury & Eoin Heffernan, September 2015 Between 2010 and…
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Young Green Leaders
We must of course see through the mist of nostalgia and recognise that young people’s lives and priorities are very different now than they were even 20 years ago. However, what hasn’t changed is the desire of young people to connect with each other and make their presence felt in their community. Graham Duxbury, January…
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Our Place, Our Planet
Communities know the places they live in, what they need and often have huge untapped assets of ingenuity, commitment, creativity and passion. They have a vital role to play in making local areas more physically and economically resilient to meet any challenges they face. Dave Facey, Communities Team Leader, Department for Communities and Local Government…