National and Regional Mapping

Descriptive text, tables, graphs and photos are all powerful tools when working on projects, but maps can often provide insights that are not otherwise available. For instance, maps are able to show the cumulative effect of issues, relationships between areas or identify gaps in provision.

If produced in the correct way, maps are able to present complicated statistics in a simple to understand way.

National Work

Groundwork UK uses GIS in a number of ways, including developing joint programmes with corporate partners such as Barclays, analysing coverage against key demographics and evaluating the distribution of national managed grant schemes such as Living Spaces.

Regional Work

Groundwork has a presence in all eight of the English regions. Much of the work of these regional teams is focussed on supporting the local Groundwork Trusts. However, many Groundwork regional offices are also able to deliver pan-regional programmes in their own right.

Many of the services outlined elsewhere in the site such as Supporting Partnerships, Research and Training have happened at the regional level.

Groundwork has developed particular expertise in using GIS to draw together data from a wide variety of sources and apply it across a particular region. This has included mapping environmental, economic and social data for both urban and rural areas.

The map below was produced to help understand the cummulative impact of a number of sub-regional initiatives.