Story Lab announced by LOCOG as official project in the Cultural Olympiad’s Children… London 2012 Festival, at library event attended by Nick Sharratt.

AUGUST 2012 Contents

Introduction 4

Cohesive Neighbourhoods 5

Trafford Hall 5 Croydon 6 Cheetwood 8

Education 9

Extended Schools 9 The Prince’s Teaching Institute 9 Business Class 11 Careers Academies 12 The Reading Agency 13 Springboard 14 Atlantic College 14 Young Readers’ Programme 15 Talk to Your Baby 15 Learning Through Landscapes 16 Kidscape 16 Hertfordshire Groundwork 17

Long Term Unemployment and Youth Exclusion 19

Prince’s Trust Building Better Lives 19 Hounslow 20 Depaul UK 21

Welfare Past and Present Employees 21

John Laing Charity Fundraising Endeavours 21 Make a Difference 21 Welfare Previous Employees 21

Health and Wellbeing 22

Independent Sexual Violence Adviser 22 Always Heard 24 BTCV Green Impacts 25 Homeless Link 28 Emmaus 29 Team Programme Young Enterprise London 31 FareShare 33

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Maintenance of Community Investment Programme 35

Trust Deficit Budget 35

Projects in Development, Key Partners 35

Appendix A John Laing Charitable Trust Funded Projects 2011-12 36

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Introduction

John Laing’s Community Investment Programme has five targeted areas of activity:

 Cohesive Neighbourhoods  Education  Long Term Unemployment and Youth Exclusion  Welfare of Past and Present Employees  Health and Wellbeing

This report follows these key identified areas, highlights significant achievements in the quarter ending March 2012 and targets future priorities for the quarter ending June 2012.

In 2009 John Laing was successful in achieving the national standard of community investment excellence, the Community Mark.

We continue to build on the success of our community programme year on year by working together with our Community Partners. This year we have been awarded with a Platinum Award, following on from Gold Award in both 2010 and 2011and Silver Award in 2009 for the Business in the Community (BITC) CR Index.

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Cohesive Neighbourhoods

Trafford Hall

Trafford Hall is a recognised centre of excellence providing national training for community activists who want to make a real difference to their local neighbourhoods. John Laing is funding a variety of DIY programmes for community activists whilst simultaneous assisting Trafford Hall’s ambitions to become a carbon neutral centre.

Impacts and Future Plans Trafford Hall estimates that since work started on the energy efficiency upgrade of the hall their consumption of oil and electricity has reduced by 10%, and gas use is down by about 1%. The centre moves closer towards their goal of becoming carbon neutral with solar panels being installed, to the south, west and east elevations of the hall together with secondary glazed windows throughout the hall and annexes.

DIY Community Action Training and Grant Programme The overall aims and objectives of this Trafford Hall programme are to train community volunteers from the UK in subjects focusing around the themes of sustainability, health, local social enterprises, supporting families and diversity in communities. Courses are run over two or three days, “Thank you very much for an on a residential basis, at Trafford Hall in Cheshire. enjoyable and helpful training in a great environment! ...Beautiful Trafford Hall is the home of the National Communities grounds and gardens which provide Resource Centre, a registered charity. It is the only the right space for rest, retreat and national training centre offering free residential training reflection/learning” and support to volunteers living and working in low- income communities in the UK. All the courses at Trafford Hall focus on enabling people to build skills, knowledge and confidence to help them improve their communities. The residential nature of the training enables strong networking to take place, providing community links and establishing support between volunteers across the UK.

5 Croydon

John Laing’s Stuart Yeatman leads our project in Croydon. He has been supporting the development of Croydon Commitment from its early development and is now a member of Croydon Commitment’s board. John Laing, as a Founding Patron of Croydon Commitment, made a total donation of £75,000. All the money raised for Croydon Commitment’s Grass Roots Trust has been matched pound for pound by the Government, providing a total legacy for the Grassroots Fund of £440,000.

Croydon Town Centre Croydon Council Urban Regeneration Vehicle (CCURV) is a long-term, 28 year, partnership between Croydon Borough Council and John Laing to regenerate the centre of Croydon, which started in November 2008. This 50:50 joint venture with Croydon Council provides John Laing with the opportunity to make a real difference by supporting Croydon’s communities and local businesses. Throughout the years, CCURV will be delivering a £450m regeneration of significant sites across Croydon town centre, which will provide sustainable facilities to benefit the entire community. To date, over £7 million has been spent with local businesses.

Strategies that deliver social and economic benefits locally are part of CCURV’s strategy for each development. The CCURV Skills & Employment Coordination Group brings together the Public, Private and Third Sectors to shape and review both the development and implementation of these strategies. This group was established because both Croydon Council and John Laing recognised that more could be achieved by supporting positive collaboration especially with initiatives that are already supporting communities and businesses in the borough, such as Croydon Commitment.

Through its involvement with CCURV, Sir Robert McAlpine and its supply chain partners worked with Jobcentre Plus to deliver training and employment opportunities for long-term unemployed residents in Croydon.

80% of the trainees completing intensive work placements which have led to full time employment (left).

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Outcomes John Laing’s partnership approach has enabled us to deliver opportunities for local people facing significant challenges facing the labour market

Together with Sir Robert McAlpine (the lead contractor building Croydon’s Public Services Delivery Hub), our strategic approach has already resulted in significant local benefits during the early stages of the construction process, such as:  Over £200k of contracts awarded to local businesses  Over 20% local employment achieved on-site;  Training, Learning & Visitors Suite opened which provides a much-needed facility for the use of local community groups  Engaging schools and local colleges to deliver lessons linked to the construction industry and to expand upon careers in construction-related industries  Apprenticeships, Education & Training and Career & Professional Development. o The Changing Paths programme for 24 Ex-offenders launched in May. To-date 5 ex- offenders that successfully completed all aspects of the programme have secured sustainable, full time employment through this initiative. o REDs10 is developing apprenticeship, work and training opportunities for ex-service people in Croydon. REDs10 are looking to offer opportunities for 50 ex-service people from July 2012 and are currently working with CCURV, its supply chain, Croydon College and other local partners to develop the programme.

Case Study Through CCURV STEP, Martin Todoroy, a profoundly deaf student at Croydon College, has taken up an apprenticeship with Commercial Insulation.

With support from REDS10, Imtech Meica and Sir Robert McAlpine, Martine has progressed extremely well and has received a glowing report from his boss, Richard Brake:

"Martin has become a valued member of the team; he is a motivated team player with a great attitude and willingness to learn, and his performance and time-keeping, to date, are exemplary. With further training and in time, we see no reason as to why Martin cannot progress to more skilled specs including aluminium cladding. Martin's communication skills are excellent, communicating through lip reading, writing and text.”

Olympic Legacy Children from St Peter’s Primary School visited the Olympic Torch procession as it passed the Bernard Weatherill House site on 23rd July, 2012. Commemorative designs they had produced for the site hoardings were displayed along the street and 400 cakes decorated with the Union Jack, were supplied by Stuffins, a local caterer.

“Jamie Kerr, CCURV Board member, said: “The Olympic Torch procession is a fantastic occasion for the people of Croydon, and to be able to celebrate this with our colleagues and the local community is a great opportunity. Croydon is going through a period of positive transformation, of which CCURV and Sir Robert McAlpine are proud to be a part, and this was showcased during yesterday’s historic event.”

7 Cheetwood (Manchester)

The Cheetwood Millennium Centre is an Urban Village Hall one of nine centres across the United Kingdom developed by Fields in Trust, with grant funding from the Millennium Commission and the assistance of John Laing. The centres in deprived urban environments provide multi use space that can be accessed, at affordable prices, by the local community. The Cheetwood Centre re-opened in April 2009, having been closed for 3 years.

The Manchester Centre was the only one of the nine projects across the UK that had failed to thrive and John Laing offered to help Fields in Trust to find a solution, given the companies long association with Fields in Trust. Since reopening the local community have become increasing involved with the running of the centre and every effort has been made to build the communities capacity to self-determine their requirements and self-deliver whenever appropriate. With the help of volunteers from the local neighbourhood the centre has developed a new operational model, which enables the local community to gain valuable training opportunities through volunteering, especially with Youth lead programmes.

Future Plans The decision has been made to move many of the sporting activities to the external area and modify the internal layout of the building so that it better suited to providing employment training courses and space to develop new social enterprises. A testament to the high regard the centre is now held is the ability to raise funds in these difficult times to meet their stated aspirations.

The centre has been successful in securing funds in 2012 from:  Manchester Youth Fund £14,000  Guinness Northern Counties Street Box Strikers £ 10,000  Reaching Communities £15,000  Lang Kelly £11,000  Guinness Northern Counties have already secured £47,000 from their Sense of Place Procurement Fund to contribute to the capital works

Negotiations are underway between Guinness Northern Counties and a Work Programme Prime to contribute towards the creation of a youth training academy at Cheetwood.

Outcomes The Cheetwood Centre continues to engage with local people and together with the networks of support, with linked agencies which has been developed since reopening three years ago, has enabled the planned reorganisation of the centre to be seen as bringing benefits to the local community in difficult financial times. The centres ability to survive by recruiting local volunteers just demonstrates how much the community appreciate the benefits the centre brings to them; such a difference to the empty vandalized shell in which the project started 3 years ago.

8 Education

Extended Schools

The Swindon’s Schools cluster continues to increase the use of the schools by the local community, working closely with users to develop an array of opportunities for Swindon’s residents. The schools have gained recognition as centres for community activity both out of school hours and now increasingly in school hours with far greater interaction with local business.

What Head Teachers say about The teachers and pupils are benefiting from Business Class: Swindon’s schools becoming one of the UK’s We have worked closely with a number of first clusters in BITC’s Business Class initiative, Businesses previously but what Business which was launched from our Swindon Schools Class gives us is a consistent working on 19th October. We continue to help support relationship with a business that will allow us this initiative in Swindon and seeing its many to have access to a wide range of benefits have opted to take the lead role as opportunities for our students...... The needs- assessment process has enabled me to have Cluster Champion for schools local to our head a greater strategic focus on the school’s office. direction over a three year period and will be an integral part in our school development plan. Julie Tridgell, Head Teacher, Nova Hreod School (Swindon Business Class Cluster)

The Prince’s Teaching Institute

John Laing has made a commitment of £10,000 each year for the next 3 years to enable the Swindon schools heads of departments to be funded to attend The Prince’s Teaching Institute, which we believe will provide complimentary support to the schools, with a focus on supporting heads of departments to excel in their specialist subjects, with the benefits cascading through the departments staff.

The Prince’s Teaching Institute (PTI) is an educational charity which raises ambition and challenge in state schools by providing professional development for teachers. The PTI is a member of the Prince’s Charities Foundation and it currently supports English, History, Science, Geography, Maths and Modern Foreign Language teachers. In the 2009/10 academic year alone the PTI reached over 1,800 teachers and over 140,000 pupils from a wide range of state secondary schools in England.

The Institute believes that young people's opportunities in life are maximised by having inspiring teachers who espouse high ambition for all, irrespective of background or ability, and who enthuse their pupils through their passion and knowledge of their subjects. The PTI has carefully built up a reputation for delivering the highest quality professional training, in partnership with the University of

9 Cambridge, and has been successful in raising the challenge of the work done in some 200 schools affecting the education of over 170,000 children.

Activities The PTI aims to maximise opportunities for children by working directly with those who teach them. The PTI runs several programmes which are all led by practicing teachers, including:  Schools Programme  One day training courses  Headteacher Conferences  Schools Leadership Programme  New Teachers Subject Day Courses

Results from John Laing supported schools John Laing’s Charitable Trust has enabled through financial support the PTI to engage with Isambard Community School and Nova Hreod in Swindon. The aim was for The Prince’s Teaching Institute to encourage these schools’ departments to increase the challenge of their work and benefit from the network and support that the PTI provides, and give their Heads an opportunity to join the annual Headteachers’ Conference. For the academic year 2011 to 2012 the programme cost £11,825 and provided a range of notable achievements from both schools.

Nova Hreod School Head of Modern Foreign Languages attended the Schools Programme Day in July 2012 and has been successful in receiving a PTI Mark for increasing the challenge of their department’s work in 2011/12. The department launched a number of enrichment activities, including a European film club and a languages speaking competition. Such initiatives were successful in increasing students’ engagement.

Head of English attended the November 2011 residential, signed up to participate in the PTI Schools Programme and has been successful in receiving a PTI Mark for increasing the challenge of their department’s work in the academic year 2011/12. With encouragement from PTI, the department created new schemes of work, implementing Shakespeare into each year group. Theatre trips were arranged and students were encouraged to participate in inter-schools poetry competitions, which increased their enthusiasm for the subject and built confidence.

The Head of Mathematics attended the March 2012 residential and has signed up to participate in the PTI Schools Programme. They will be eligible for the PTI Mark in Summer 2013.

Isambard Community School Head of Science attended the Schools Programme Day in July 2012 and has been successful in receiving a PTI Mark for increasing the challenge of their department’s work in 2011/12. In order to challenge students and encourage option take-up, the Science Department has continued to develop A-level ‘taster sessions’ in Physics, Chemistry and Biology, offered to younger students with great success. The Science Department has also now integrated at least one Science related field visit for each year group, for example, to Kew Gardens and the Science Space Centre. Years 10 and 11 were taken to Bristol University on a one-day Science course, resulting in the students being inspired about careers in Science.

A second representative from the Mathematics Department attended the March 2012 residential, as well as the Schools Programme Day in July 2012. The department had been unable to complete the Schools Programme objectives in 2011/12 and has therefore set new objectives for the upcoming academic year. They will be eligible to receive the PTI Mark in Summer 2013.

The Isambard Mathematics Department took up the offer to bring students to attend the Mathematics lecture by Professor Marcus du Sautoy in London. This was part of The Prince’s Teaching Institute Summer School Lecture Series and was free of charge for students and teachers.

10 Business Class

Business Class is a direct response to the concerns expressed by business about the ad hoc and short-term nature of much of their engagement with schools. Business Class address the need to provide greater, more structured, support to tackle issues within education. BITC are committed to rolling out the Business Class model to embrace a broader range of schools and communities, with a target of 500 partnerships by 2014 and John Laing are excited to be supporting them in their vision both in Swindon and in the Westminster Cluster which will enable our head office to provide the range and depth of support that the programme deserves.

John Laing is Cluster Champion School Business Partner for the Westminster cluster for Paddington Academy John Laing BITC’s Business Class, which was Pimlico Academy Wates formally launched on the 8th St Augustine’s CE Cluttons December 2011 The Westminster St Marylebone CE Prudential programme involves five Westminster Academy Visa secondary schools and five business partners

Our allocated secondary school is the Paddington Academy, a mixed comprehensive with 1169 pupils, specialising in business and enterprise. (http://www.paddington-academy.org) The Academy is in an area of socio-economic deprivation. Students are from a diverse range of backgrounds, with around 50 languages spoken. Last year the Academy was the second most improved academy in the country and we hope John Laing can contribute to their future successes.

Developed by Business in the Community (BITC) The Business Class model benefits from three key innovative components:  The cluster approach, grouping together schools and businesses in specific localities rather than relying purely on individual partnerships to generate impact for participating schools;  The needs assessment tool utilised throughout the relationship based on criteria already well-known to schools;  The support provided by BITC as convenor and coordinator.

The comprehensive needs analysis was discussed with many opportunities for engagement, immediate priority areas for the Paddington Academy are:

Middle management training/mentoring These number four to five departmental and year heads. Areas of support include coaching staff on how to hold difficult conversations, effective communication, delegation, time management.

11 Sixth Form Mentoring This is an area which the academy feels is a priority for them and if possible to be supported by work placements/work experience, speakers and business challenges.

 Employability & Enterprise. o Greater input into BTEC programmes, including visits to businesses for BTEC students, speakers, case studies.  Provision of Year 11 mentors for Business Studies BTEC. o Curricular support with case studies and speakers.  Support with the transition from GCSE to AS Maths. o Many students benefit from intense support and intervention at KS4 and struggle to make the transition to a more independent approach to Maths learning in sixth form.

Non-Teaching Staff  Non-teaching staff include facilities management (5), administrative (10) and teaching assistants (10), who have very little access to professional development, Areas of support included access to training in the use of Microsoft applications such as Excel, Word and PowerPoint  The schools Facilities Management (FM) Team will be provided with access to the companies FM staff, including our extended professional network.

Careers Academies UK

Paddington academy is establishing a BTEC Applied Science careers pathway for 10 -15 students commencing September 2012.The Career Academy students will follow a rigorous two-year programme alongside a curriculum equivalent to at least three A levels, enabling students to progress to higher education or the world of work.

We have also agreed to support the academy becoming a recognised member of Career Academies UK (http://www.careeracademies.org.uk). This organisation leads and supports a movement of over 1000 employers and over 120 schools and colleges, working together to raise the aspirations of 16 to 19-year-olds.

John Laing together with up to seven or eight other local businesses to Paddington academy including Marks and Spencer’s and Wates, have agreed to participate and support the following initiatives:

 Student mentoring  Provision of guest speaker  Curriculum support  Hosting a tour of our workplace  Provide an internship placement  Join the Career Academy Local Advisory Board

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The Reading Agency

The John Laing Charitable Trust funded the pilot and sponsored the Summer Reading Challenge back in 2010. With its incredible success it was named as an Official project in the Cultural Olympiad’s London Festival. John Laing Charitable Trust’s agreement to 4 years back in 2010, providing a grand total of £80,000 to the programme by 2013, has enabled The Reading Agency to progress with the long term development of this project, ensuring at every stage the project was meeting its long term goals.

Each year the Summer Reading Challenge has a Director of the Cultural different theme. The 2012 theme is Story Lab - a Olympiad Ruth MacKenzie celebration of story and the imagination. Story Lab is linked to the 2012 Olympics and is an official said she wanted to: "...sprinkle project in the Cultural Olympiad's London 2012 some Olympic magic dust in Festival, bringing the Olympics to every library in the country. So far this summer, 95,420 books have every library as part of the been read as part of the Summer Reading 2012 Summer Reading Challenge. A live update can be found at Challenge." http://story-lab.org.uk/

Children from Middle Street Primary School, with Nick Sharratt at Jubilee library in Brighton, where LOCOG (London Organising Committee of the Olympic games)

chose to make the announcement.

Achievements The Reading Agency worked with a sample of 50 local authorities, as focal points for learning and evidence, for the 2011 Summer Reading Challenge Circus Stars. You can download the evaluation report at Circus Stars.

Achievements of 50 partner local authorities

 3891 volunteers were recruited in 117 library services (62% of the UK network) to work alongside staff during the Summer Reading Challenge. Of these, o 780,000 children involved in the Summer Reading Challenge o 1361 young volunteers aged 12-24 years recruited (against a target of 1000) o 114.7% increase in the number of volunteers recruited compared with 2010

13 Springboard

We are now in the final year of a three year grant to Springboard, a charity whose vision is of challenging the effects of under achievement in areas of economic and social disadvantage and to enable children in these areas to recognise their value and achieve their true potential. Their focused approach to literacy means that they are able to increase basic reading and writing skills, and transform the lives of children.

Springboard Aims  To serve children in socially and economically disadvantaged areas  To help children acquire basic literacy skills  To help children raise their expectations of themselves and of life  To help children strengthen their hope for the future

How the project works One to one tuition and mentoring is delivered by highly trained volunteers in a dedicated, school based, Springboard room. The volunteers are supervised by a qualified literacy tutor. Each child receives two 45 minute lessons each week. Any child with a reading and/or writing difficulty can be taught regardless of age for as long as is needed for them to gain competent literacy skills.

The grant from John Laing Charitable Trust has been used to meet the costs of running the Manchester Hub, comprising of 3 literacy centres in 3 schools. During the academic year 2011/2012, Springboard provided tuition for 45 students in these centres.

To compliment the qualitative evidence, quantitative evidence of impact is obtained through testing. In June each year the whole Springboard cohort of children is tested, using standardised tests, to provide a snapshot of the progress being made.

Generally, all the children have made great progress. The end of year assessment results for the hub will be available in early Autumn.

The Future During the academic year 2012/2013 an additional model of literacy support will be offered which is less intensive than the 1:1 supervisions, focusing on Manchester. Springboard aims to identify and coordinate 5 supported reading projects in schools located in the same area as Mauldeth Road.

Atlantic College

John Laing Charitable Trust has paid a bursary place at Atlantic College since their records began. The college was established after the Second World War by Lord Mountbatten to create a model for international harmony.

The college continues to this day to ensure the active participation of students in delivering community programmes that directly benefit the local community and ensure community cohesion. The Extra-Mural Centre at St Donats, near Swansea, is recognised as a world class example of excellence and John Laing looks forward to providing this project with the support required so the lessons learnt can be spread to public sector schools.

14 Young Readers’ Programme

The John Laing Charitable Trust has been supporting the National Literacy Trust (NLT) since 2006. The Trust has donated £120,000 to date establishing a programme called “Reading is Fundamental” in Scotland. The successful partnership has lead to John Laing Charitable Trust agreeing to fund another new programme in the hope that it will match the success and long term sustainability of Reading is Fundamental which has now spread from Scotland to gain national recognition.

Talk to Your Baby

In 2012 John Laing Charitable Trust awarded National Literacy Trust a grant of 20,000 for their Talk To Your Baby programme in the hope that we could bring some long term sustainability to this new program which is now emerging from its early development. ‘Talk to Your Baby’ is the National Literacy Trust’s early years programme, focusing on supporting practitioners to help parents develop good language and literacy skills in their children. The program has moved away from the initial provision of online sources of information, top an increased emphasis on consultancy work and training seminars for practitioners, an important change of emphasis for any charity in this current economic environment.

Research into communication between parents and young children was also carried out, such as research into the impact of parent-facing buggies on communication levels, and into how parents prefer to receive messaging about improving their children’s language and literacy skills. The project has also extended its work in the research area by developing a Reference Group of children’s centres and other practitioners, which provides feedback to the programme on a variety of topics and methods of interaction.

The Future – Sustainability The main focus for providing information and professional “Talk To Your Baby project this year and into the future, development will now be through the conference and as your support has been training sessions. Those who are financially unable to instrumental in enabling us attend can still benefit from website resources, the to create and develop this Reference Group and Community of Practice. This enables new, very exciting self- sustaining model.” them to continue receiving information and support on early Penne Wallis Trusts and years language and literacy development. It is hoped that Foundations Officer National the programme will remain at the forefront of research and Literacy Trust practice in this area.

Achievements A completely new team organised a very successful conference with over 175 attendees, an impressive figure given the current economic climate. The team has also begun to run training sessions at a practitioner and strategic level in local authorities and individual settings.

Academics working in early years and other practitioners met to share information about what works and any new developments in the sector as part of their Community of Practice. This community enables Talk To Your Baby to stay up-to-date with research and practice, so that they can share the best of this at the annual conference.

15 Learning Through Landscapes

Since 2006 the John Laing School Grounds Awards, managed by Learning Through Landscapes have offered support and opportunities for children to learn and develop in stimulating and innovative school grounds. John Laing Charitable Trusts has provided £125,000 financial support to the school grounds awards since 2006, with school grounds awards now established we are working with LTL to develop new access routes to their services in an attempt to promote their services in these difficult financial times.

2012 saw the second annual payment of £25,000 to develop the programme in an innovative direction to respond to the challenges facing schools as they seek to counter the financial constraints and the end of the capital programme. LTL’s London school grounds programme is aimed to enable as many schools as possible to implement low cost and high impact changes to their outdoor spaces.

Many more schools received practical and targeted support than in previous years. Every school that applied was able to take part in at least one event. Schools were given specific information and ideas to address their individual needs, they benefited from one to one advice from the LTL team and were introduced to the networks of other local schools.

The breadth of support has boosted schools’ knowledge and expertise in using and improving their grounds to stimulate children’s learning and play. LTL anticipate that future applications will be more inventive and more attuned to addressing identified needs. Crucially LTL believe the new format will better equip schools who don’t win one of the 2011-12 awards to be better equipped to implement the low cost and high impact ideas that LTL has introduced them to.

Further details of last year’s programme can be seen by following the link below. http://www.ltl.org.uk/pdf/1291904956Short-version-FINAL-.pdf

Kidscape

The charity Kidscape is committed to keeping children safe from abuse. Kidscape is the first charity in the UK established specifically to prevent bullying and child sexual abuse. Kidscape believes that protecting children from harm is key.

Kidscape works UK-wide to provide individuals and organisations with practical skills and resources necessary to keep children safe from harm. The Kidscape staff equips vulnerable children with practical non-threatening knowledge and skills in how to keep themselves safe and reduce the likelihood of future harm.

John Laing has been supporting Kidscape since 2005 and has donated £100,000 during that period. Generally that support has enabled Kidscape to enhance the number of courses for children and their parents who have experienced bullying along with support for the printing of course material and information leaflets.

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Hertfordshire Groundwork Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire

John Laing have been supporting Hertfordshire Groundwork since its inception more than twenty years ago and has provided a member of staff to sit as a Trustee during that entire period. More recently the Trust has provided donations to support the work that the charity does.

The Trust has supported Hertfordshire Groundwork’s work to improve school grounds by funding their staff to enable a free design service and initial practical support to Hertfordshire schools, embarking on new projects formalise plans. This invaluable early help enables schools to evaluate their needs and formalise the concept, with the production of drawings and a brief, which allows potential funders, supporters and future volunteers to visualise the project.

John Laing Services to Schools - this service continues to be popular and they are currently working with several schools in Central Bedfordshire and Luton to undertake advisory visits, quote for practical work or carry out design work. As a result of these visits several schools have contracted Groundwork’s Project Implementation Team to undertake work in the grounds including creating growing areas, repairing ponds and rebuilding an amphitheatre and the Education team is currently delivering teacher training at one Central Bedfordshire school to help them make the most of their new garden. They are also working with Tennyson Road Primary School following an advisory visit to help them transform their small exposed garden into ‘The Secret Garden’ where pupils can play, draw, grow vegetables and flowers, read or just sit quietly and enjoy the surroundings. This school, located just outside Luton town Centre has very limited outdoor space for pupils and they would like to make the most of what they do have. Groundwork has helped the school to submit a bid to the Awards for All Lottery programme to cover the cost of re-designing this space and running workshops with pupils and their parents to make the changes.

School Grounds Scheme Our new approach maximizes pupil involvement to ensure a sustainable impact on the schools involved. In all the participating schools, pupils have taken part in consultation about what improvements they would like, often taking a lead. They have also been involved in much of the practical work, creating paths, sculptures and planting. This has helped the proposals and produced better projects for the schools.

The scheme also encourages securing match funding, with Groundwork Trust assisting the schools to secure multiple funding streams to enable the schools to develop larger more ambitious projects. This is a better utilisation of Groundwork’s PIT team, allowing them to complete more of the practical tasks for school and ensuring the greatest possible interaction between teachers, pupils and parents. Groundwork Trust shares John Laing’s understanding that the long term benefits of regeneration projects will incur when the widest possible range of participants have become practically involved, creating community cohesion.

17 This year the Laing project is supporting six schools:  Oakmere School, Chase Avenue, Potters Bar  Wilbury School, Bedford Road, Letchworth Garden City  St. Mary’s School Church of England School and Allsorts Children’s Centre, Lieutenant Ellis Way, Cheshunt  Northside Primary School, Albert Street, Finchley  Ferrars Junior School, Lewsey Road, Luton  Caddington Village School, Caddington, Central Bedfordshire.

We have selected two of these schools to provide examples of the work being undertaken.

Ferrars Junior School, Lewsey Road, Luton The school is opposite Lewsey Park and their first contact with Groundwork was through their participation in the consultation activity for the Park vision plan. The school was keen to improve their own grounds and also to be involved in proposals for the park and this link to a local green space was the key criteria for the selection of the school as a John Laing project. Following consultation with teachers and pupils a Groundwork landscape architect was able to prepare designs to help improve areas of the school grounds which include an amphitheater and a wildlife garden. The school was very pleased with the designs and has commissioned Groundwork’s Project Implementation Team to rebuild the amphitheater. The school has also been able to start work on the make-over of the wildlife area due to a successful application to the Awards for All Lottery Fund. Work started on 25 January with a Family Action Day where parents and children worked alongside Groundwork’s Project Implementation Team and with Education Officers to repair the pond, build a pond dipping platform (see press clipping), clear lots of debris away and to weave a willow bird hide screen. The Awards for All grant also allows Groundwork to run a 15 week “Really Wild” after School Club at the school which staring in March.

Wilbury School, Bedford Road, Letchworth Garden City A pupil consultation took place last October to help find out how pupils would like to use the woodland area and how they would like to improve the woodland for wildlife. The school council took part in this activity which included children from all year groups. The children came up with lots of great ideas for helping wildlife such as creating log piles for bugs, making bird feeders, planting flowers and building animal homes. At the end of March children planted woodland plug- plants. The local playschool, which does not have an outdoor space, will also visit the woodland area for an activity morning lead by Groundwork staff and the school intend to make the woodland available for the playschool to use regularly in the future.

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Long Term Unemployment and Youth Exclusion

Construction and Business Services Leadership Group, Prince’s Trust

John Laing plc has been a Patron of The Prince's Trust's Construction and Business Services Leadership Group (CBSLG) since 2006. As a Patron, John Laing plc works in partnership with The Prince's Trust to help support disadvantaged young people across the UK

The CBSLG supports young people through the Get into programmes, a skills development programme that helps young people find a way into the industry. John Laing plc's significant support of the CBSLG committee and their commitment to the Get into programme has created a wide and exciting partnership with The Trust and with numerous supply chain partners within construction and business services. John Laing’s are delighted to have helped broaden the number of opportunities available in a new range of Get into programmes that have been specifically developed for our business group.

With Construction & Business Services Group funds The Prince’s Trust has between the 1st April and 30th August this year provided opportunities for:

 254 young people have been supported by 23 Get into Construction programmes  310 young people have been supported by 29 Construction Services Leadership Groups Get into programmes (including non-construction programme like Get into Facilities management, Hospital Services, etc.).

John Laing are working with existing supply chain partners to deliver local employment opportunities, for example our work in Croydon which is described earlier in this document. Our relationship is aided by our ability to provide long term funding commitments to support the program and enable planned and progressive development. We are currently in the third year of our commitment to the trust to grant £100,000 over a four year period. We are very pleases with our progress over the years which is leading now to full time employment for some disadvantaged youths, not only in large companies who have traditionally supported such programs, but now increasingly smaller local companies which provide not only the opportunity for sustainable local employment, but also provide and retain role models in these deprived communities.

19 Hounslow

John Laing Integrated Services (JLIS) are contracted by Hounslow Local Authority to deliver their leisure and cultural services. John Laing are working with the community and where possible our core community partners to deliver community programmes in Hounslow.

Story Lab Summer Reading Challenge 2012 The Hounslow Summer Reading Challenge “Story Lab” was run again this year between 21st July and 8th September.

Every year in Hounslow we do the Summer Reading Challenge – as do most library authorities in the UK, but it is especially relevant for us as John Laing Charitable Trust support the Reading Agency (who manage the Challenge) financially so that they can continue to develop their volunteering programme. This is a programme which encourages young people to volunteer in their local library over the summer and support children in reading aged between 4 –11.

In Hounslow we developed a comprehensive events programme, delivered in our libraries, to increase participation over the course of the 6 week holiday. The scheme is an excellent way of engaging with children and families and encouraging continued reader development. This year we had a team of young volunteers who supported the delivery of the Summer Reading Challenge in the libraries. With the scheme only just finishing we do not yet have this years figures but initial indications are that we continue to build from our success in earlier years.

http://www.hounslow.info/libraries/Summer-Reading-Challenge.htm

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Depaul Drive Ahead, Broadening Horizons and One to One

John Laing Charitable Trust has provided £7,500 grant for two of Depaul UK’s youth development projects, Drive Ahead together with Broadening Horizons and One to One. The projects target young people aged 16-24 who are homeless, not in education, employment or training (NEET), Young Offender or ex-offender.

Drive Ahead The programme is designed specifically to meet the needs of homeless and neglected young people in crisis who are not in education, employment or training (NEETs) and runs programmes which are clearly structured and designed to develop participants’ employability, maturity, numeracy, literacy, IT, budgeting skills and self-confidence. Broadening Horizons provides work experience and apprenticeship opportunities to their client group. Enabling them, very often, for the first taste of work life, to build up their CV’s develop career goals and lay foundations for sustained economic activity.

A Drive Ahead a participant and her employment advisor

The grant funding from the John Laing Charitable Trust for the Drive Ahead (London) and programme, has significantly contributed to the sustainability of this skills development project as well as benefiting a wide range of individuals. This impact feeds directly into the London communities from where the Drive Ahead course participants come, helping to make them safer by turning economically inactive and socially excluded people into economically productive and socially active members of their communities. As a result of John Laing’s involvement, they are now much less at risk of developing or compounding problems with drugs, alcohol, anti-social behaviour and ultimately offending behaviour which may lead to prison.

One to One Project One to One has been incorporated into DePaul’s wider outreach and prison resettlement programme using the talents and skills of our prison resettlement staff together with our volunteer coordinator.

The One to One project is designed to train volunteer mentors from the general public and match them with ex-young offenders released from London and South East Young Offender Institutions. The aim of the programme is to reduce the social isolation experienced by many ex-young offenders immediately after release which is an important contributing factor in reoffending behaviour.

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Welfare Past and Present Employees

John Laing Charity Fundraising Endeavours

Matched Giving In addition to John Laing’s corporate commitment to raising money for worthy causes our brilliant staff continue to excel in personal fundraising activities and missions. The last few months have seen some great team efforts and outstanding individual accomplishments in raising money and awareness for various causes; many funded and contributed to by the John Laing Charitable Trust.

So far in 2012, upto the end of August, JLCT matched donations of £7,677, donations are made up to a maximum of £1,000.

Make a Difference John Laing encourages our employees to Make a Difference in their own time. Employees or their immediate families actively involved in Charities are able to apply for a grant of £500 to help the charity meet their objectives. The majority of the grants are in support of small local charities, where £500 makes a real difference. Ito the end of Aug 2012 the Charitable Trust has granted 25 Make a Difference applications at £500.00 each, totalling £12,500.

Welfare Previous Employees John Laing Charitable Trust will continue to make payments for winter and summer gratuities to the 530 pensioners, together with hardship payments for qualifying pensioners. The Trust’s staff have made 894 visits to our pensioners in upto the end of July 2012.

JLCT organises a series of regional summer outings, enabling our pensioners to catch up on old times. The outings are arranged at convenient locations throughout the UK with the individual retirement clubs.

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Health and Wellbeing

Independent Sexual Violence Adviser, Kingston Hospital

The project builds from the success of the multi-agency approach of the MARAC and takes it to another of John Laing’s infrastructure investments Kingston Hospital. The project aims to demonstrate that this targeted approach to support the Victims of Domestic violence will demonstrate a financial saving to the Hospital which will ensure the sustainability of the Hospital working in partnership with Victim Support.

John Laing Charitable Trust provided a grant of £25,000 to employee an Independent Sexual Violence Adviser (ISVA) to join the Independent Domestic Violence Adviser (IDVA) service at Kingston hospital. These two hospital posts are part of a larger domestic violence (DV) team in Kingston also comprising of a Community Independent Domestic Violence Advisor and a Domestic Violence Children’s Project Worker. Victim Support in Kingston provides specialist advice with regards to sexual violence both in domestic and non-domestic situations allowing our DV team to provide a wider service to more victims.

The triple benefits: 1. Positioning a dedicated ISVA Service within both a sexual health centre and a hospital setting to identify risk earlier on and to increase safety for victims. This can reduce repeat attacks and subsequent clinic and A&E visits; it has the potential to increase reporting of crime and reduce the possibility of longer-term consequences for health and mental health. 2. Up-skilling clinic and hospital staff with specialist knowledge will improve Kingston hospital services. It will create a more sustainable and cost-effective solution to deal with their patients. 3. Gaining a more accurate understanding of the prevalence, distribution and determinants of sexual violence and domestic violence through record keeping. This will ensure the needs of victims can be met by the clinic, A&E and other referral agencies – both now and in the future.

The principle objectives are to:  Provide an independent, early intervention Case Study support and advocacy service for patients at Referred by police, client with learning the Wolverton Sexual Health Centre and difficulties had been raped and abused Kingston Hospital. on numerous occasions, once taken to A&E by ambulance as a result.  Embed good practice by training and However, she did not wish to pursue supporting NHS staff to respond effectively to prosecution. disclosures and to set up care pathways with The Independent Sexual Violence both the ISVA and IDVA services. Adviser has given intensive on-going  Ensure that patients identified as victims of support for over a month. sexual violence can make informed decisions Client has been referred by her GP to and be supported to report the crime to the Right Steps. The ISVA provided police if they so choose. information on Mind services and she is  Offer victims support through the criminal now planning to attend The Bridge café drop-in. She has recently returned to justice system. work.  Create a seamless and timely referral pathway both locally and nationally through Victim Support’s internal and external networks.  Take a lead role in working with other agencies, including the police and the Haven Camberwell, to provide an effective response to sexual violence and provide the victim’s perspective in strategy development.

23 Achievements October 2011 to June 2012  Since October 2011 talks and training have been delivered to approximately 200 staff in Kingston Hospital to promote the IDVA and ISVA services.  From July 2012 Victim Support are invited to Kingston Hospital Corporate training for all new hospital staff recruits and Cohort Nurses Training.  The victim engagement rate is 89% - the service has supported 64 clients since 26 Oct 2011. (Out of 71 referrals made only 7 clients did not engage or declined support).  55% (35 referrals) were made in the period 1 Apr to 30 Jun, demonstrating steady increase in the 9 months since inception.

‘Always Heard’ Project

Last year John Laing Charitable Trust awarded a grant of £10,000 to Voice to help support their project, ‘Always Heard’, an on-going, nationwide project which provides children in care, in need and leaving care access to the support of an independent advocate to help them address issues affecting their lives. The ‘Always Heard’ project is part of Voices commitment to ensure that no child or young person is left without an independent expert to hear their voice.

During the period of our grant the ‘Always Heard’ project provided independent advocacy and advice to 1,325 clients through their Freephone helpline.  831 had their issues resolved by advocacy and advice provided by experts via the helpline.  494 were allocated a face-to-face advocate for dealing with more sensitive or complex cases where the helpline was not sufficient  An additional 2-300 cases were carried over from the previous year, being particularly complex or numerous and therefore needing more time to resolve.

Specialist advocates in each area provide support to young people via the helpline, managing a case-load of 10-15 people at any one time. They also share their expertise with other advocates and professionals nationally.

In the last year, the majority of young people had more than one case that needed to be resolved. In total, Always Heard’s advocates dealt with 1,899 issues, 81% of which were fully resolved.  Being happy and safe where they live: 372 children received support on their placement or proposed placement move.  Homelessness: 110 homeless or unsuitably housed “People actually started children were able to secure accommodation and listening to me and my voice services to which they were entitled. got heard. Things actually  Education: 125 young people approached the started to change.” organisation for help to prevent placement moves 90% of respondents to that would interrupt their education and for financial feedback questionnaires stated support to pursue higher education. that their situation had  Emotional wellbeing: Advocacy helps increase improved following advocacy young peoples’ trust in adults, their sense of and 80% said that they now feel inclusion and self-worth. that ‘adults listened to them.’

24 Green Impacts: Making a Difference

The project is improving BTCV’s understanding of the impact their work has on people and places so that they can modify or enhance what they deliver or do more of what works best to ensure an even greater impact. The converse of this is that BTCV can and should then stop what doesn't work or creates only marginal impact. The Green Impacts work involves an iterative process of improving impacts, a virtuous circle of refining BTCV’s delivery model to give the greatest impact and to enable them to evidence the claims made about them changing lives and changing places.

The project started in April 2011 with the broad aims of:  Working with individuals and communities across London to encourage pro-environmental behaviour and by this, testing the belief that community resilience is increased by such interactions  Finding ways of measuring the impact of BTCV’s work by developing their Management Information System (MIS) into an innovative impact model so they could better understand the wider impacts of environmental volunteering.

There are several strands to this work:  Surveying Volunteers participating in BTCV’s work to establish the impact they have on their pro- enviromental behaviour and identify how the kind of participation affects the change they experience.  Working with individuals and groups to create Greener Living plans. Recruiting and supporting volunteer Green Living Champions to help achieve these plans and help deliver workshops and activities to support behaviour change.  Encouraging people to keep Change Diaries to map the prompts and stimuli which cause them to make changes. Developing the MIS to capture data on behaviour change.  Using the results and learning to create an impact framework to enable BTCV to prove the claims they make about changing lives and changing places.

25 This work has so far resulted in:  887 participants to date completed Baseline Survey  205 participants completed follow up survey  7 Community Groups are monitoring progress  47 individuals have developed greener living action plans  13 Greener living events  14 Recruited Greener Living Champions (GLCs)  4 GLCs progressing to Volunteer Officers

Green Impacts will increase the capacity and skills of community groups and individuals in London, helping them to understand how their lifestyles impact on their environment, where there is need for behavioural change and how it can be achieved.

In the first year, Green Impacts recruited and trained a team of 14 Greener Living Champions (GLCs) to deliver a programme of workshops to talk to community groups about their impact on the environment and to look at how groups and individuals can reduce their impact on the environment in areas such as transport, energy, food, waste, water consumption and community action. Activities are then delivered around these themes and the resulting impacts are measured and evaluated. Constant changes are made in response to the feedback. Initial research has shown that groups are adopting the pro-environmental behaviours agreed upon in their group action plan.

John Laing support will also make a difference to BTCV as an organisation and the environmental sector as a whole. The impact model developed by the Project will be shared with other organisations and will help to strengthen the sector, demonstrating the full range of direct and indirect benefits of environmental volunteering. In times of reduced government funding, producing an impact model enables BTCV and the environment, community and voluntary sector to make stronger cases for future support.

26 Achievements  The project has involved large numbers of individuals participating in conservation activities. Green Impacts is now working with almost 1,000 people a year, twice what was anticipated.  Results from Employee Action Days show that the average person moves up 2.25 levels in pro-environmental behaviour and community resilience. The greatest change is seen in relation to energy use. However, staff from the largest corporate Action Day partner, RBS, increased 3.25 levels (69% higher than the average volunteer). Green Impacts are analysing a second set of data, hoping to find the same trend. They wish to explore why the change is greater for this company, increasing the chance of the same success being replicated for following events.  The development of the survey is going particularly well. Green Impacts have already received sufficient data from over 800 baseline surveys, 200 follow-up surveys and feedback from 8 members of staff and over 30 volunteers to enable improvement.  A new survey has been created, based on the feedback received from staff and volunteers.  A new system is being developed to analyse the captured information automatically using the MIS so it is immediately available to staff.

To publicise Green Impacts, presentations have been given to CEOs and representatives of third sector organisations and The National Lottery, making them aware of the project and allowing them to input into its development. T-shirts and bags were produced for the GLCs to create a sense of identity and promote the project. The project has been promoted to 144 BTCV Community Network groups in London, who are invited to participate. Green Impacts is also being promoted through the BTCV website.

27 Homeless Link

John Laing have supported Homeless link with £190,000 of funding since 2006 including 2012 payment of £25,000. Homeless Link provides central support for the day centres working with homeless people across the UK. John Laing enables the resource centre to target activities to at least 25 centres each year, where they have identified that the support will ensure the greatest value.

John Laing believes that it is increasingly essential in the present economic climate to find ways of efficiently supporting the small and often under resourced charities. With the support from John Laing’s funding, Homeless Link have been able to reach every one of the known 247 day centres in England by post and the majority by email to publicise good practice resources and information. The work funded by John Laing targets support to homeless link in five key areas:

 Maintenance of the day centre database  Development of online resources and email news bulletins  Create network of regional groups for day centre managers  One to one support work with twenty five day centres in England  Provision of bursaries for training

Maintenance of the day centre database The day centre database continues to grow and now contains 337 contacts in 247 day centres. This quarter a meeting with the Salvation Army Housing Association has enabled the database to include all their regional contacts which represents a significant extension of the database’s reach.

Development of online resources and email updates The day centre web pages are reviewed regularly and these resources, together now with Twitter, have helped to raise the project’s profile and increased communication with day centres. The summer newsletter was emailed in June and included links to guidance; information on welfare reform; the offer of free support as part of Homeless Link’s Critical Mass project around collection, analysis and use of data; free webinars; and information on hospital discharge of homeless people.

Laing’s support enables Homeless Link to ensure that the development of online support is useful to day centres The latest survey shows that 70% of day centres receiving support have used Homeless Link’s online guidance ‘No Second Night Out for Day Centres’ and the majority of respondents have used multiple online guidance or toolkit resources.

The day centre web pages have been updated with links to new guidance documents on managing volunteers and supporting people with no recourse to public funds.

Following publication of Homeless Link’s Survey of Needs and Provision (SNAP) 2012, Homeless Link produced a ‘hot topic’ document highlighting areas of the findings specifically relevant to day centres: http://homeless.org.uk/snap2012

Development of regional groups for day centre managers In the Summer there have been a further 6 events for day centres in Canterbury, Leicester, Blackpool, London and Wells, bringing together 79 attendees in total. These sessions focused on the principles and implementation of No Second Night Out, as well as giving attendees the opportunity to network, share good practice and raise issues to be covered by future events or guidance.

The second year of the project will see further improvements; with a 3 month follow-up to ensure will capture actions that are implemented by attendees as a result of attending an event.

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The Day Centres Specialist ran a workshop at the Housing Justice conference which focussed on building positive relationships between Christian charities and commissioned services. Homeless Link also had an exhibition stand at the conference, providing an opportunity to network and raise the profile of the Day Centres Project.

One to one support to at least 25 day centres in England The Day Centres Specialist has made visits to 9 additional day centres in the Summer quarter, resulting in 27 day centres receiving direct support in the first year. Some of the centres will continue to receive support during the second year of the project. To ensure the project is enabling the most appropriate support, Day Centres Project has surveyed the helped them in different areas. Feedback from respondents includes:  75% improved their knowledge of good practice.  70% have a better range of tools to develop their service.  65% have been encouraged to implement practical changes to improve their service.  60% increased their understanding of the wider context of homelessness.  100% find the project useful or very useful.

Provision of bursaries for training The offer of bursaries for training (including courses, “Being a relatively new service conferences, seminars and good practice visits) has been and the first of its kind in promoted to day centres. Bursaries are targeted to those day Gateshead the support and centres that are under-developed in comparison to the rest of opportunities offered by the the sector. project have been really helpful. I have had the In response to a training need identified during direct support opportunity to visit other meetings, the Day Centres Specialist arranged a training projects around the country session on ‘Managing day centre teams through change’. and take part in some fantastic This took place in April and 10 day centre managers training as well as get contacts attended from 7 English regions. who have helped me immensely. Thank you.”

Training bursaries have been awarded to 11 day centres:

Organisation Training course or related cost

The April Centre Outcomes Star Peterborough Streets Travel to attend training and day centres forum Beacon House Managing Conflict Margins Project Introduction to Homelessness Shiloh Rotherham Motivational Interviewing Skills Wintercomfort Day Centres: Places of Acceptance, Empowerment and Change Basis@336 Travel to attend good practice event London Jesus Centre Managing Conflict Mission Café Equality and Diversity Catching Lives Introduction to welfare benefits Ace of Clubs Managing Conflict

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Emmaus Communities enable people to move on from homelessness, providing work and a home in a supportive, family environment. Companions, as residents are known, work full time collecting, renovating, and reselling donated furniture. This work supports the Community financially and enables residents to develop skills and rebuild their self-respect. By giving the homeless the opportunity to get more from their lives, they also help others in the process by working with local projects.

John Laing Charitable Trust provided grants of £45,000 since February 2011 to finance a research project into the success of the Emmaus model, the Annual Reviews for 2011 and 2012, the Companion Ambassadors scheme and new media online content including online advertising. These 4 projects improved the understanding and recognition of the Emmaus Movement; something which is essential not only to raise public support, but to develop awareness of the services available to homeless people.

The £15,000 granted in 2012 enables Emmaus to continue last year’s work including: the Annual Review (2012), a food book, the reprint of information packs, the redesign EmmausNet and further photographs.

Annual Review Emmaus are currently in the process of gathering content for this year’s annual review. The main theme is likely to be “change” and it will contain detailed information on how Emmaus is significantly increasing its social enterprise capacity. The format will be very similar last year’s annual review.

Foodbook The book on food is progressing well. Madeleine Reiss (Media & Publicity Manager) and Caroline Mead (Media Officer) have visited Emmaus Cambridge, Emmaus Village Carlton and Emmaus St Albans to collect food memories, stories and recipes from Companions. The recipes are currently being tested by a volunteer, Jessica Rizzo, who had originally come up with the idea for this book. Apart from the last few recipes, virtually all of the copy has now been collected and has gone to the copywriter and designer.

EmmausNet During February and March Emmaus conducted a survey of EmmausNet users to find out about their experience of EmmausNet and how they would like to improve it. 74 Companions, staff, volunteers and trustees responded to the EmmausNet survey. This information was invaluable for the consultation meeting on March 28th established a list of requirements for the development.

EmmausNet and the website are being redeveloped as one site to provide a better user experience greater efficiency compared with running two separate systems. Emmaus are working with web developers Granite 5 to produce a comprehensive tender document setting out the requirements. User testing has been planned for September and the site is hoped to be launched in January 2013.

Emmaus regularly promotes the website via social media websites including facebook and twitter. Emmaus facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/EmmausUK Emmaus UK YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/EmmausUK

Photographs John Laing is happy to be able to support Emmaus with the costs of professional photography which is important to clearly highlight the work being undertaken and to enhance the web presence. Emmaus have 3 days planned with a professional photographer, Mike Pinches, who took such

30 great photos last year, will return to capture images of Companions and Community life at Emmaus Brighton and Emmaus Greenwich. Additionally, photos have been taken of the food which is being tested for the food book.

Companions working – sample of new professional photos taken in 2011

Photos are taken regularly at Emmaus Communities to keep images fresh. The images are also available on the Emmaus facebook page

The link to the video page: http://www.emmaus.org.uk/watch/

Team Programme Young Enterprise London

For the past four years John Laing has been supporting the “Team Programme” in London. The Team Programme has been developed for children with a range of learning difficulties. It is an unforgettable experience, encouraging students to work together, interact with adults and grow in confidence as they set up and run their own enterprise, guided every step of the way by a personal business advisor.

The new Team Programme Initiative has been a great success, with significantly higher registrations and student numbers than in the previous year.

The Young Enterprise Team Programme is the only programme of its kind in the UK and is specially designed to help young people who have learning difficulties and/or disabilities learn about business and set up their own companies.

Team Programme Final, Canary Wharf “Many students have got the opportunity Eleven London schools took part in the YE Team to demonstrate their skills for potential Programme final at Clifford Chance in Canary Wharf. employers and for some it is incredible Twinkle Treats, the winners who produced and sold a achievement in itself to come on the stage range of funky bags made from old jeans, were at the Final and speak in front a large ecstatic to have won Overall Best Company.Prizes audience of people.” Young Enterprise Team Programme were also awarded for the Best Presentation, Best Manager Miranda Hoogewerf Product and Best Trade Stand.

31 Trading Opportunities The students are offered a number of opportunities to trade at shopping centres and markets all over London. The largest and highest profile trading opportunity we offer them is at the Old Spitalfields Market.

“I think a huge change occurs during the year. By and large communication is improved – working purposefully is completely energising, normalising, and is justification for all the challenges we put in front of them. The mature way in which they conduct themselves when dealing with customers and visitors (of which there are many!) develops greatly. Levels of maturity in fact just take off. Very early on in the first term sulking and similar behaviours Team Programme provides a wonderful diminish to next to nothing and they framework for learning and opportunity, resulting respond well to the responsibility they take. in learners gaining confidence and greater self- They strive to work hard (sometimes in a awareness; they move on to new courses with a slightly competitive way) and you can see whole set of transferable skills and a genuine, enlightened understanding of what work means. they feel important.” Jenny Wilson, Link Teacher, Lewisham College

Harry Hitchens, the teenage entrepreneur also judged the trading skills of students at the Pan London Trade Fair at Old Spitalfields Market. Harry told the students a mix of academic qualifications and hands-on experience was necessary to get to the top.

Photos of recent Trade Fair at Spitalfields.

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FareShare

John Laing Charitable Trust started supporting FareShare in May 2011 with the first of three annual grants of £20,000 to assist in the funding of the management team required to develop and expand their network.

FareShare is an incredibly simple concept: liaising with food manufacturers and retailers to access supplies of good quality, surplus food to support the health and well-being of disadvantage people throughout the UK. Using teams of volunteers they redistribute food to over 700 charities and voluntary organisations throughout the country.

Impact of John Laing funding – Expanding our mission During the last year the John Laing Charitable Trust has helped FareShare to rescue 3,600 tonnes of perfectly good food – enough to help make 8.5 million meals. Using teams of volunteers, FareShare has been able to provide food for 700 charities and community organisations (Community Food Members) helping them to look after the health and well-being of the people that access their services and make vital savings. The John Laing Charitable Trust grant played a direct role in enabling FareShare to provide the expertise needed to establish the new depots, give on-going operational support and ensure deliveries of surplus food into these new depots, sourced through relationships established by our national food acquisitions team.

The past year presented a particularly challenging time for the UK voluntary sector. FareShare have responded by opening new depots in Cardiff and Hull where they work with local organisations to deliver the service. This is alongside the establishment of services in Bath and Gloucester that are supported through the South West depot in Bristol which opened last year.

The Future 2012/13 The support of the John Laing Charitable Trust is of vital Case study – We have held importance to FareShare and with the £20,000 grant in 2012, the discussions with a major organisation will make an essential contribution to the following key growing company who have areas: over 20,000 tonnes of  Rescuing and redistributing more surplus food – Their goal surplus vegetables that could is to redistribute 4,500 tonnes of surplus produce in be available to FareShare 2012/13. Our financial support will help to engage further every year. It is currently with the food industry to access vast amounts of food that being used as pig food. are currently not being used to support hungry people in In addition, we are talking to the UK. them about how best to o New sources of surplus food include vegetables and access their unused trial fruit direct from growers. It includes food that produce. In one day a supermarkets will not buy, such as ugly fruit and FareShare team of vegetables like wonky carrots (see right). volunteers filled an entire van  Operational support for network of depots – This includes full of test produce. With technical support, advice and guidance around food safety greater transport capacity legislation and helping the new services to fulfil their plus increased volunteers, potential and reach capacity. we could have collected 6 times that, from just ONE o Fareshare directly operates two depots in London field. plus their Liverpool and Birmingham services while

they work in partnership with local organisations to deliver our services elsewhere in the UK.

33 o In the coming months they are developing the Leicester operation into a full service (it is currently delivering ambient food two days a week) which will also act as a national storage hub to store the large quantities of vegetables we are aiming to start receiving from growers in Eastern England. Development in this area creates great potential to start supporting organisations further afield throughout the East Midlands.

A Critical Service Charities doing crucial work with groups such as the homeless and disadvantaged young people or victims of domestic violence are facing a choice between cutting their food budgets and not providing a service at all. 82% of organisations say that FareShare food saves them money each month. Collectively, FareShare saves the UK voluntary sector £8 million per year.

Such charities can use the money they have saved by receiving food from FareShare to continue to provide their vital services. Many charities use the money working with FareShare saves them on personal development and employability training for their service users.

The support of the John Laing Charitable Trust is crucial to FareShare’s long-term development and prosperity and will have multiple impacts:

 Reduction of food poverty o Expanding FareShare’s mission to deliver more food o Supporting more voluntary sector organisations o Responding to the rising demand for food (see National Impact Survey 2011)

 Benefits to the UK voluntary sector o Massive savings on food budgets o Supplying a much higher proportion of their staple food costs o Opportunities to divert savings to other areas of their operation

One of the new charities that FareShare has now started working “We rely solely on with is Action for Refugees in Lewisham (AFRIL) where food FareShare food. We used reaches their destitute clients who are particularly vulnerable to to rely on out of date hand homelessness and hunger. helped AFRIL to provide food that was outs from a local of good quality and safe to eat, as well as being healthy and supermarket and all they nutritious. could give us was food of unreliable quantity and With budgets tight and demand increasing AFRIL say they could quality. Much of it was not not provide any form of food service to their most vulnerable clients fit to eat.” without the food that FareShare provides. Prior to this many people AFRIL’s Volunteer Co- ordinator were relying on out-of-date handouts from local supermarkets. FareShare

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Maintenance of Community Investment Programme

Trust Deficit Budget

In line with its policy that Trust set a break even budget for 2012. The budget for 2012 was agreed by the Trustees at the Trustee meeting in June 2012. It allows for community donations of £750,000 for the year 2012 to be retained despite falling revenue to the Trust.

Projects in Development, Key Partners

2012 will take us into year 3 of our Community Mark programme and we have started discussions with our stakeholders to look for the most appropriate projects to enter into three year commitments starting in 2013. It is important for all of us, especially in these changing times that we ensure that we plan for projects which will provide long term sustainability. This sustainability increasingly needs to highlight future aspiration especially in deprived communities which are feeling increasingly isolated as the economic situation prevails. We are also impressed with the significant progress made for projects which are located or managed closer to our head office, together with the level of staff commitment that these projects are generating.

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Appendix A

John Laing Charitable Trust Funded Projects 2012-13

rd Trafford Hall (3 of 3) 50,000 CMMP rd Young Enterprise (3 of 3) 30,000 CPR BTCV 25,000 CP Hertfordshire Groundwork 25,000 CP Homeless Link 25,000 CPR Learning Through Landscapes 25,000 CP National Working Group (1st of 3) 25,000 CP nd Prince's Trust (2 of 4) 25,000 CMMP Victim Support 25,000 CP Atlantic College 23,500 CMMP CROP 20,000 CP st FareShare (1 of 3) 20,000 CP Kidscape 20,000 CP National Literacy Trust (3rd of 3) 20,000 CP st The Reading Agency (1 of 3) 20,000 CP Business in the Community 17,300 CP Changing Paths CIC 15,000 CPR Emmaus (part accrued) 15,000 CP nd Place2Be (2 of 2) 15,000 CP rd Springboard for Children (3 of 3) 15,000 CP Afasic 10,000 CP Envision 10,000 CP No Christmas Card Charity of the Year 10,000 CP nd Outreach (2 of 3) 10,000 CP School Governors’ One Stop Shop 10,000 CP The Prince’s Teaching Institute (2nd of 3) 10,000 CP Urban Forum 10,000 CP Voice 10,000 CP Business in the Community 9,250 CP DePaul Trust (2nd of 3) (SVP) 7,500 CP CRASH 6,000 CP

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