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.
5. Wigan Groundwork heroes
Clearing rubbish and planting trees alongside the River Douglas on Riverway are Wigan Civic Trust members in conjunction with Stream Care, Groundwork Trust and the Tidy Britain Group.The area was to become a wildlife garden on Sunday March 15 1992 Photo: Frank Orrell
6. Wigan Groundwork heroes
Groundwork volunteers who completed work on a project at Wigan St Jude's amateur rugby league club are pictured with Wigan Warriors stars Patrick Ah Van and Magraff Leuluai Photo: Gary Brunskill
7. Wigan Groundwork heroes
The Mayor of Wigan Billy Rotherham, cuts a ribbon at the handover of the refurbished resident's garden at High Peak Lodge care home, Leigh, volunteers cut down bushes, painted fences, relay bricks and planted flowers as part of a community project run with the Prince's Trust in partnership with Groundwork. Photo: MA
8. Wigan Groundwork heroes
The mayor and mayoress of Wigan, Coun and Mrs Jimmy Jones present certificates to the winners of a Groundwork photographic competition in 1987 Photo: STAFF