About Us

Groundwork Pennine Lancashire is the biggest environmental charity in Lancashire. Our purpose is to build sustainable communities in areas of need through joint environmental action.

Groundwork’s Youth, Education and Training Division believes that young people are part of the solution to improving quality of life in local areas. We help young people participate in their communities, building their confidence and self-esteem, and building their skills and knowledge to enable them to play a full and active part in society.

Our education and training programmes help participants to not only acquire knowledge and understanding of the principles of sustainable development but also help them to acquire the skills and values needed to do something about them.  We are about much more than recycling or environmental education. We try to challenge participants to think and work in a profoundly different way.

In schools we deliver a wide range of interactive workshops and programmes that focus on sustainable development education.  By covering themes from the National Framework for Sustainable Schools including fairtrade and climate change we help to inspire participants to find solutions to improve their quality of life and the lives of people in all parts of the world.

At our Outdoor Education Centre in Rossendale, ‘The Bunker’, we deliver an Alternative Education Programme with structured accredited outcomes for young people aged between 12 and 16 years of age. This Programme offers a vocational, hands on, experience aimed at students who are struggling to thrive in the mainstream educational environment.

We also offer a wider Youth Service, Reachout, providing young people growing up in disadvantaged neighbourhoods with the skills and opportunities to develop their personal skills to reduce crime and improve their social, physical and economic neighbourhoods.

Butterfly on pink flowers

Children in gardening club looking at what they have grown

Raspberry