Environmental Assistance provides information, advice, guidance and support to community groups on environmental and public health issues. This work includes helping community groups formulate and present objections to planning applications and helping them to develop community regeneration projects. This enables communities to play a more effective role in consultation and planning processes that affect the environment and public health. This work can also help to make communities more pro-active with other environmental issues. Helping them realise that they have a responsibility and the potential to defend and improve environmental quality.

Environmental Assistance is a non-campaigning organisation. We endeavour to give people the information and support that they need to develop solutions to their particular environmental and public health concerns. We have given advice on planning and pollution issues associated with waste management sites and planning issues associated with housing developments. We have worked with community groups to review local waste recycling opportunities and helped them develop community led waste recycling schemes. We have helped to constitute several community led organisations and are actively engaged in the establishment of other community led organisations.

We regularly organise conferences to disseminate information about the issues of concern to local communities. In some cases the information provided gave the communities a solid case on which to work and progress e.g. the Lowermoor water poisoning incident. This epitomises the primary aim of Environmental Assistance which is to empower communities and individuals to fight their own causes.