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2019 Annual Review ANNUAL REVIEW 2019 A PLACE TO PLAY SPORT FOREVER LONDON PLAYING FIELDS FOUNDATION / Annual Review 2019 1 CONTENTS 02 CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE 04 WHAT WE DO 05 WHY WE DO IT WWW.LPFF.ORG.UK 06 AROUND OUR GROUNDS 08 PROMOTING AND FUNDRAISING 10 2019 IN NUMBERS 11 INCOME AND EXPENDITURE 12 LORD CADOGAN: LPFF CHAIRMAN 2001-2019 2 LONDON PLAYING FIELDS FOUNDATION / Annual Review 2019 3 It gives me great pride as the new London Playing Fields Foundation CHAIRMAN’S Chairman to welcome you to the 2019 Annual Review which marks 129 years of working to improve the quality of life of Londoners MESSAGE through the protection, provision and promotion of playing fi elds. As someone whose life has been enhanced through sport in a variety of forms, it is an absolute honour to join a charity with such a rich and productive history. It would of course be remiss of me not to Secondly, charities also have to make instantaneous health and social impact thank and congratulate my predecessor a difference and we achieve this through of sport and physical exercise is one for his magnifi cent contribution to the our playing fi elds protection role of the main reasons why I joined the Foundation over the last eighteen years. and our ground-breaking projects. Foundation and I have become a Whilst his tenure is covered elsewhere in When community groups have been passionate advocate of the value of this review, as Lord Cadogan’s son I know in despair because their local fi eld well-managed playing fi elds. We know how much this charity meant to him and is under threat from development, from our own reports about how they how he was totally committed to its vision London Playing Fields Foundation has can help make communities safer and and mission. He leaves huge boots to fi ll come to the rescue time after time and improve levels of physical and mental but I am ready for the challenge. helped safeguard its long term future; health, with recent research indicating and projects such as Coping Through that London’s public green space Given the familial link and the four Football and Green Hearts have provides services valued at £5 billion years I spent on the LPFF Gala Dinner demonstrated how innovative use of per year. It is estimated that Londoners Committee between 2011 and 2015, playing fi elds can provide an antidote to save £950 million per year in health I am no stranger to LPFF and its work. poor mental health and sedentary living. costs due to the impact of living and I think that it is an extraordinary charity working close to public green space. that since 1890 has punched well above Thirdly, charities need to be solvent its weight to ensure that London remains and this is a real challenge when the Armed with this evidence, I look forward one of the greenest and greatest sporting operation of playing fi elds is inherently to my tenure as Chairman of London capital cities in the world. In the short loss making. As a result of our Playing Fields Foundation with great time that I have been Chairman I have commitment to providing affordable optimism and believe that over the been immensely impressed by the facilities for all, for every pound that coming years we will consolidate our people who make this charity so special we spend on the management and position as the leading body for the from my fellow Trustees to Head Offi ce maintenance of a pitch we only recoup protection, provision and promotion and grounds staff. Their unwavering 39p in hiring income. This means that of playing fi elds in London. commitment to our mission of providing we have to rely on additional sources a place to play sport forever is truly of income in order to make our pitches Finally, we would like to place on inspirational. accessible to the communities we serve. record our continuing thanks to all of Events such as our Gala Dinner at The our supporters and to our dedicated My ambition as Chairman is to ensure Savoy and the LPFF Quiz at The Oval team of staff and Trustees who do that the Foundation has a sustainable provide us with much needed income such a wonderful job in running and future and, like all charities, we depend and we are greatly indebted to the Gala promoting the charity. on three things for our survival. The fi rst Dinner and LPFF Quiz Committees who is to adapt and stay relevant by ensuring year after year do such a marvellous job. that we continue to meet the needs of It is my intention to help the Foundation our benefi ciaries. In essence, we are to signifi cantly increase its fundraising facilitators of participation in sport and capacity and place it on a stable footing. physical activity and we achieve this Hon William Cadogan by providing accessible and affordable Of course, there is a strong correlation Chairman places where it can take place. Our between fundraising and increasing playing fi elds have to provide the type profi le especially with potential of environment where schools, colleges, supporters who might not be familiar universities and clubs can fl ourish and with our cause. Being in a position develop the sport they love. where you can see the almost 4 LONDON PLAYING FIELDS FOUNDATION / Annual Review 2019 5 WHAT WE DO WHY WE DO IT Our vision is to create a happier, healthier, Peter May Sports Centre Physical inactivity will prematurely kill one in more cohesive London by encouraging more six of us and with a third of London’s children people to play sport and be physically active being overweight or obese, it is vitally important on affordable, accessible and attractive that we provide places to play sport and inspire playing fi elds. More than just green spaces, more people to exercise on a regular basis. playing fi elds are places where lives can be improved physically, mentally and socially. OUR PLAYING FIELDS We rely therefore on a combination of Current examples of these life-changing This means extending our reach beyond By providing opportunities for people to Research from the Fields of Dreams generosity of our supporters, grant aid projects include Coping Through traditional team games to those who be more active we can be part of a report on Douglas Eyre Sports Centre Our playing fi elds are used by over and commercial partnerships to Football and Green Hearts. are not involved in organised sport, but, solution that, in tackling preventable has already shown how access to 210,000 people every year, at the seven continue subsidising our playing fi elds with the right encouragement, will walk, illnesses through early intervention, regular positive sporting experiences grounds we own and manage across fi ve so that they are accessible to all. In the OUR PITCH PROTECTION jog or run around our fi elds on an saves the NHS millions of pounds. can be a force for good in the lives London boroughs, to help them stay fi t current climate where local authorities informal basis. In this way our fi elds of these young people who might and healthy by playing and practising Once a playing fi eld is lost, it is lost are under enormous pressure to build will be more relevant to local residents Playing fi elds and the activities played otherwise be tempted by the allure the sport they love. In order to widen, forever so when it comes to protection new homes and cut council expenditure, and become the green hearts of the on them have the capacity to bring of the gang. increase and sustain participation in our mantra is no net loss of pitches, playing fi elds have never been under communities they serve. Encouraging communities together and to reduce sport and physical activity, we provide if they are lost to development they greater threat. We believe it is vitally those who lead an inactive lifestyle to do social isolation. They can also increase high quality, affordable sports pitches for should be replaced. We believe that important that we continue to more exercise is one of society’s biggest aspirations and feelings of self-worth schools, colleges, universities, clubs and the social value of playing fi elds to local demonstrate how well-managed and challenges. Financially it makes sense and in doing so help to reduce crime community members. Our programmes communities is huge and that is why maintained playing fi elds can help as it is estimated that physical inactivity and anti-social behaviour. With knife of use are underpinned by sports we are committed to opposing the provide those teams and individuals who costs the economy £7.4billion in crime tragically taking so many teenage development principles where the current and future loss of playing fi elds use them with a home where they can premature deaths, healthcare and lives, we want to use sport to get young objective is to support young people in London. We are the fi rst port of call play and practise the sport they love. sickness absence. people off the streets and to provide on their sporting journeys from school for advice on protecting threatened an alternative lifestyle where they feel to club based activities. playing fi elds and have produced a OUR PROJECTS safer and more aspirational. Playing Fields Charter for London. However, operating these playing fi elds For some people, through no fault of This urges the Greater London Authority, is an expensive business and for every their own, leading an active lifestyle local authorities and sporting bodies to pound we invest in the maintenance is diffi cult physically, socially and adopt a long term view of the contribution and management of a sports pitch economically.
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