The charitable trust and social enterprise, which runs Prince’s Trust programmes, has been involved in a vast number of environmental projects locally, whether carrying out major improvements at nature reserves or helping to create school or care home gardens.
Here is a selection of pictures from the archives showing some of that work and the heroes involved in it.
1. Wigan Groundwork heroes
Pupils at St. Andrew's Primary School, Springfield, planting trees to create a wildlife area financed by Wigan Groundwork Trust on Thursday March 9 1989 Photo: Frank Orrell
2. Wigan Groundwork heroes
Home composting advisor Tony Hart, of who was giving home composting workshops at the United Utilities Hope Carr Barn Environmental Education Centre, Leigh, shows how it's done with daughter Ellie, 3, Diane Glasgow, from Groundwork Wigan and Chorley, and education officer Helen Riley with a kitchen caddy. The workshops to recycle kitchen waste were organised by WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme) and Wigan Council Photo: NICK FAIRHURST
3. Wigan Groundwork heroes
Wigan Groundwork Trust receives recognition of its work in 1987 Photo: Gary Brunskill
4. Wigan Groundwork heroes
A group of young volunteers from environmental charity Groundwork gardening in the grounds of Wigan and Leigh Hospice Photo: submit