Changing Places Changing Lives

Offshoots' fame spreads wider

Nice to see that Groundwork's Offshoots permaculture allotment initiative in Burnley has been featured in Treehugger - probably the world's leading internet site devoted to sustainability issues.

Celebrating quarry heritage

The Rossendale Valley of Stone Heritage Landscape Partnership, a Groundwork-led group that aims to celebrate and conserve the rich quarry heritage of the area, has been awarded over £500,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

This is the largest grant that Groundwork has ever secured in Rossendale - and a fitting tribute to the 25 years of work of one of our first Trusts, which is shortly to become part of the new Groundwork Pennine Lancashire.

The contribution that Rossendale has made in providing stone products since the Industrial Revolution is not always well recognised locally - and the millions of people treading the sandstone flags of iconic areas such as Trafalgar Square have no idea that they are walking on a piece of Rossendale moor top.

The Valley of Stone project will be preserving features from the quarries and using these to tell the story of this important industry and the people who worked in it.