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Stronger Communities: One Person At A Time

At Groundswell, our mission is to build stronger, more resilient communities where people feel supported, connected, and protected from harm. We work to prevent hate, extremism, and polarisation by strengthening the social fabric that holds communities together. We believe that lasting social cohesion is created at the local level, through trusted relationships, shared understanding, and communities that are able to meet people’s social and emotional needs before harm takes root.

We do this by:

  • Strengthening connections between statutory partners, community organisations, and local residents, enabling open communication, collaboration, and trust-building across different groups.

  • Delivering impactful training programmes for frontline workers and young people, designed to challenge harmful narratives, build critical thinking skills, and support long-term digital resilience.

  • Providing social prescribing services that help individuals access local community groups, services, and networks that offer guidance, belonging, and practical support.

  • Promoting financial resilience, including education and support around Bitcoin adoption, to help individuals and communities build greater economic independence and security.

Through these approaches, Groundswell works to create safer, more connected communities where people can thrive together.

Find out more about what Groundswell Project does and where we operate

Creating more cohesive communities

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world, indeed it’s the only thing that ever has

- Margaret Mead

Protecting ourselves from harmful extremism on and offline

Creative inclusivity

Community Connection

Our FIND CONNECT AMPLIFY™ Method

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Training

Sharing our knowledge on anti-hate, counter-extremism, community resilience building

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Kindness Mapper

Find, upload and reach organisations that empower your community

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What We've Achieved

465
Organisations on the Kindness Mapper
369
Engagements with Peace Groups
9105
Professionals Trained in CVE
34
Events held
75
Projects delivered
18000
Young people trained

Our Supporters

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Testimonials

I’d like to recommend Groundswell Project to all grassroots organisations working in youth empowerment, counter radicalisation, anti knife crime and other organisations like ours. They supported, connected us and always amplify our events. They have definitely helped our work at Salam Peace.

Mr Lee-South - Director of Salam Peace

I’m a Social Prescriber for the NHS. The Kindness Mapper has been a great tool to find help for people in need of Mental health, befriending, DV, youth services especially within BAME communities. It addresses the issue of health inequality perfectly.

Nusra Khan - Social Prescribing Link Worker

The Training Groundswell Project has offered was well delivered and researched. Listening to a survivor of DV and Radicalisation made it very clear that more needs to be done to address this serious issue.

Lewisham Council Officer

Our Work

Supporting underrepresented groups' right to access sport

Our Community Connector in Lewisham Sokhara Goodall worked throughout 2024 with others in the community to develop the campaign group Equal Playing Fields, aimed at gaining greater access for women's and non-binary football teams to community pitches in the south London area.

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Focus on Phoenix Rising

One of the big successes of the Black History Month event we ran on 30 October was Phoenix Rising, a group of young steel pan drummers.

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Love thy Neighbour

The Love your neighbour exhibition documents the story of Muslims who rescued Jews during the Holocaust and went live on 20/01/2019.

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Connecting Professionals with Grassroots Groups

Groundswell Project has been instrumental in connecting large tech organisations like Google and Facebook and all the knowledge they have.

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