LandAid works to improve the lives of children and young people in the UK who experience disadvantage due to their economic or social circumstances. As a charitable foundation supported by the property industry, LandAid finds ways to apply the generosity and expertise of the industry to this cause.
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LandAid Charitable Trust can do more..... 2012–13 Annual Report Contents
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3 Chairman’s statement: LandAid is growing through the support and leadership of many
4 Mission statement
5 Chief Executive’s statement: How LandAid will continue to add value and increase its impact
6 LandAid’s charitable focus
8 the unique things LandAid can do
9 How you can get involved
10 LandAid’s projects 2005–2013
11 Your generosity and commitment keeps growing
12 A national charity with a local impact – our work in 2012–13
15 Helping projects with professional advice & practical support
18 Providing somewhere safe to live
20 Creating a safety net & supporting rehabilitation
22 Delivering life skills, education & training
24 Assisting the search for work
26 Fundraising highlights
28 thank you
Young person supported by the Capital Talent Programme 2 with Bromley by Bow Centre, funded by LandAid. CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT
LandAid is growing through the support and leadership of many
The year 2012–2013 has been another funding, our charity partners depend on the successful year for LandAid with a total income grants and pro bono expertise they receive from of £1.36 million. We have enjoyed excellent us in order to continue their vital, life-changing growth over the last 5 years and have spent work with young people all over the UK. time this year refining our growth strategy and plan to reach income of £4 million per annum None of this would be possible without the in 5 years. This work was undertaken under the support we enjoy from colleagues across the leadership of our new Chief Executive, Joanna property sector whether they be developers, Averley, and our resources ensure we have the owners, contractors, investors or professionals platform to achieve these growth objectives. supporting real estate activity. This generosity goes from strength to strength. We have nearly As our priority, we continue to develop ways 70 Foundation Partners and work with industry for organisations, companies and individuals membership bodies as well as our events and operating in the property sector to engage in media partners. These Partners represent raising funds and providing support for young leading organisations within the real estate people experiencing disadvantage. Currently we world that see their social impact as being are helping some 50 organisations across the core to their businesses and wish to engage country and this year we committed for the first collectively with others. Their commitment time over £1 million to these projects. It is clear brings leadership from the most senior figures that the role we, as an industry, can play in this in the property industry and the engagement area remains enormous. of a huge number of energetic and committed individuals. Without them we are nothing and Our work with charities across the UK on behalf of my fellow Trustees I offer grateful underlines the support that LandAid is so well- thanks. placed to offer. In the following pages we give a glimpse of the worthwhile investments LandAid Lastly, I offer my thanks to our executive team has made and the impact these are having on whose constant enthusiasm will lead us in the young people. There remains a long way to go, next stage of our growth. but our industry has brought us this far, and I have great confidence that we can achieve even more in the coming years.
The need for our help is clear; with almost 1 million young people not in education, employment or training coupled with an Robin Broadhurst CVO, CBE, FRICS increasingly difficult time for public sector Chairman
3 Mission Statement
LandAid works to improve the lives of children and young people in the UK who experience disadvantage due to their economic or social circumstances.
As a charitable foundation supported by the property industry, LandAid finds ways to apply the generosity and expertise of the industry to this cause.
LandAid invests in and adds value to projects across the UK by funding buildings, equipment and staff, and providing free property advice.
LandAid forms partnerships with charities working with some of the most vulnerable young people in the UK.
LandAid provides a wide range of ways for companies and individuals to give and get involved: by donating money, time, sponsorship, energy as a fundraiser, expertise, work experience, mentoring, employment opportunities, volunteering and the use of space in buildings.
LandAid’s charitable purpose is relevant to my business.
A member of the Community Links FRE Flyers, P hotograph credit www.amitandnaroop.com 4 funded by LandAid CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S STATEMENT
How LandAid will continue to add value and increase its impact
Looking back on my first year with What do we have at our disposal to apply LandAid I am struck by all that we have to our cause: money, time, expertise, achieved as the charity of the property employment opportunities, buying power, industry. This is not simply due to a buildings, an army of professional people dedicated team, the leadership of our and a long term outlook? That is why we Trustees, or our Committee Members who are looking forward to growing, with your work tirelessly to bring in the donations help, the ways the property, development and identify worthwhile projects to invest and construction industry, can uniquely in. It is also due to the collective efforts have a social impact; alongside the and generosity of thousands of individuals. economic impact it clearly has. It’s about the many people in the property industry who want to have an impact on the Looking ahead 2013 and 2014 will be communities in which we live and work. It’s even tougher for many young people and focusing our support on some of the most those that work with the most vulnerable. vulnerable children and young people in the We have already made positive decisions UK who have had a very tough start in life about where to invest our funds and and deserve to have a better future. energy and we look forward to extending our impact in the years ahead. We It has been humbling to see the scale and will do this in collaboration with those depth of commitment from the property who deliver services to young people in industry to LandAid’s charitable cause. And many of the UK’s most disadvantaged we hope you will have had a lot of fun and communities. fulfilment along the way. I and the team are hugely grateful for It has also been a very important year to your support and look forward to working reflect on how and where LandAid can creatively and energetically with you all have the most impact. As someone who in the coming year. has worked in the development industry for over 20 years, I have always believed that we are changing the very spaces in which people will live out their lives: and we change them for good or for ill. LandAid is a continuum of that process whereby we move beyond our day-to-day work and an entire industry realises the collective, social Joanna Averley impact it can have. Chief Executive
P hotograph credit www.amitandnaroop.com 5 LandAid’s Charitable Focus
LandAid works to improve the lives of children and young people in the UK who experience disadvantage due to their economic or social circumstances. We invest where the need is greatest and we can have the most impact, which is why we focus on children and young people in our cause. Young People at the Eikon Centre, Surrey
Young people are facing a Resources are tight for tough future those supporting young people If the foundation for life is our childhood and youth, for some the future is bleak. Government funding – direct and indirect – to agencies providing services to children The number of homeless children in England and young people is reducing. Personal living in temporary accommodation is forecast giving to charities is also falling. to rise to 81,000 by 2020 . The impact can be devastating. Homeless children are three to The projects and organisations LandAid four times more likely to have mental health support are those that provide vital services problems and education is disrupted. In one to vulnerable young people. They are often study, nearly half of young people who had involved at the point of severe crisis in a offended had experienced homelessness. young person’s life. The care and expertise provided by the projects transforms the Unemployment for people between 18 and 24 outlook of and prospects for the young is still around 1 million and on an upward trend person. Yet many of these organisations since 2004. This is now resulting in serious have had to adapt drastically to significant problems, particularly due to the increase in long reductions in funding and are in desperate term unemployment among 18–24 year olds. need of investment: in both the provision of buildings and staffing. This is where For anyone experiencing disadvantages, often LandAid steps in: to help sustain and grow due to the circumstances into which they are the services at this difficult time of more born, the challenges of the fast changing world pressing and increased need. are, quite simply, magnified. The projects that LandAid supports work with those that face these multiple issues.
6 …HAVING A POSITIVE FUTURE
ASSISTING THE SEARCH FOR WORK
helping me to to get ready for and find a job
DELIVERING LIFE SKILLS, EDUCATION & TRAINING developing the skills to live independently and look after myself and take responsibility, supporting me to gain recognised qualifications
CREATING A SAFETY NET & SUPPORTING REHABILITATION providing me with a place to go, get advice, have positive experiences, build my confidence and help me make good choices about my future
PROVIDING SOMEWHERE SAFE TO LIVE helping me when I have nowhere else to live and giving me the support to deal with my problems
The impact we have on young lives
7 The unique things LandAid can do
LandAid makes investments in projects invest in the ways outlined on the projects that have a clear and diagram on page 7. positive impact on the lives and • Providing free professional property prospects of young people. advice (pro bono) to charity partners about issues related to premises and property (as LandAid only invests where it can add value and well as the provision of work experience increase the effectiveness and reach of a charity and mentoring support for young people). partner’s activities and programmes. The map on page 10 shows the build-up of projects across • Providing charity partners with access to the UK over the past years. LandAid meets its space where support and activities for charitable objectives and adds value in four young people can be provided. main ways: • Working with the property industry to add • Providing financial support to build, value to the social impact of their investments refurbish and maintain buildings and the through training and work programmes at equipment that supports young people. appropriate stages in a project’s development This is through the allocation of capital and and use, investing in facilities and projects revenue grants to charity partners. These that support the local community.
Ways in which LandAid is making a difference
Financial support Free professional for buildings & property advice facilities & support to charities
ADDED VALUE
Social investments as part of development Access & use of & management of space by charities property for social purposes
8 How you can get involved
LandAid only exists and can In the year ahead we are particularly looking make a difference because of for co-investments in projects which are located in communities near or relevant to Foundation the generosity and engagement Partner’s business; to grow our programme of the property industry – it is of free professional property advice and to your charity. increase the take up of payroll giving.
LandAid’s Foundation Partners are the Our Industry, Events and Media Partners also bedrock of our work, making an annual make a major contribution to our fundraising, donation of £10,000. Foundation Partners both at their events and in keeping down our also mobilise their teams to get involved and core costs through their invaluable in-kind engage corporately in ways that suit their support to LandAid’s work. particular scale and interests. LandAid offers lots of opportunities to: engage in fundraising, We also benefit from the enthusiasm and provide free property advice to LandAid energy of organisations and individuals who projects, co-invest in charity projects, set up raise funds through a host of creative and payroll giving and sponsor or buy tickets for a challenging fundraising efforts; many choose LandAid event. The most engaged Foundation LandAid as their Charity of the Year. The last Partners are making contributions well in 18 months have included some extraordinary excess of £50,000, and much, much more if commitment with people taking on a personal you include the value of pro bono donations. or team challenge, and raising money for disadvantaged young people with LandAid. You can see some of the highlights on pages 26–27.
The Inner Voices Choir at the LandAid Summer Party, June 2013
My LandAid Checklist
- Sign up as a LandAid Partner - Co-invest in a project - Set up payroll giving - Sponsor an event - Get the team involved - Donate some expertise - Match a colleague’s fundraising - Provide mentoring & work experience opportunities
9 LandAid’s projects Shepherds Bush Families Project 2005–2013 New Horizons Youth Centre London Bombing Appeal Marylebone Project Centrepoint – 5 projects in London St Mungo’s 2005–06 2009–10 Chartered Surveyors Training Trust Astell Foundation 2006–07 2010–11 Robert Blair Primary School 2007–08 2011–12 Fairbridge Hackney (Now Prince’s Trust) 2008–09 2012–13 Community Links Association For Research Into Stammering Children Bromley By Bow Centre Centrepoint Ealing Kidbrooke Focus Poplar HARCA, Spotlight Youth Centre Roots and Shoots LONDON Venture Trust
Fairbridge Dundee
The Gate Four Square Fuse Youth Café
Stepney Bank Stables Training & Development Resource Centrepoint Sunderland
East Cleveland Youth Housing Trust Brathay Trust
Burley Lodge Centre The Lighthouse Group Bolton Wise Keyhouse Fairbridge Liverpool Booth Centre Goodwin Development Trust Merseyside Youth Association Haven House Project Roundabout Grimsby & Cleethorpes Area Doorstep Trafford Hall Langley House Trust St Basils Derbyshire Housing Aid Performances Birmingham Herring House Trust City United St Edmunds Jericho Foundation Focus Canaan Trust
Llamau Space Trust Slough Ymca Genesis Trust The Eikon Charity Jamie’s Farm Wings South West Keep Out Canterbury Housing Emmaus Advice Centre Manali Project Motiv8 South Ltd India The Clock Tower Sanctuary LandAid funded one project outside the UK in the last few years, If LandAid has funded a charity more than once, but currently only funds 10 only the first funding year is indicated on the map. projects in the UK. Your generosity and commitment keeps growing
Growth in funds available for young people
2012–13
£853,700 LandAid Day celebrations, October 2012
LandAid’s work is made possible through the support, engagement, 2011–12 drive and ambition of organisations £757,294 and individuals from across the property, development and construction industry. 2010–11 £535,920 Through all of this support, the funds LandAid were able to raise and make available to invest in projects in 2012–13 continued to grow, increasing by nearly £100,000. While overall 2009–10 there was a small fall in income in 2012–13, £395,455 LandAid reduced costs by taking a more efficient approach to fundraising events; ensuring more 2008–09 funds could go to support young people. LandAid £253,386 aims for all costs of an event to be covered by ticket sales and sponsorship; ensuring 100% of fundraising goes to fund projects. Funding 2007–08 continues to come from a variety of sources with £309,080 the majority coming from Foundation Partners and their activities and LandAid events providing the next largest contribution. 2006–07 £542,523 For more information, LandAid’s audited accounts can be viewed on our website at www.landaid.org. LandAid’s income in 2006–07 was boosted by a small number of significant donations. The 2005–06 income profile from then on has been shaped by Foundation and £149,259 Industry Partners engagement.
11 A national charity with a local impact our work in 2012–13
LandAid projects funded Children and young people in 2012–13 experience disadvantage across the country. The following pages illustrate how the social investments that LandAid has made in 2012–13 are helping young people. We introduce a selection of the projects given grant funding in 2012–13, we also provide an update on some previously funded Venture Trust projects that opened this year. Applecross £90,000 LONDON
Fuse Youth Café Fairbridge Hackney Glasgow Poplar HARCA (now Prince’s Trust) £50,000 Spotlight Youth Centre Hackney Tower Hamlets £25,000 £90,000 Community Links Newham Roots and Shoots £85,000 Kennington Kidbrooke Focus £150,000 Greenwich East Cleveland Youth Housing Trust £10,000 Skinningrove £25,000 Burley Lodge Centre Leeds £10,000 Goodwin Development Trust Trafford Hall Hull Chester £35,000 £15,000 Grimsby & Cleethorpes Area Doorstep St Basils Grimsby & Cleethorpes Birmingham £25,000 £150,000 St Edmunds Jericho Foundation, Norwich City United Birmingham £35,000 Birmingham £50,000 £20,000 Llamau Slough YMCA Merthyr Tydfil & Newport Slough £75,000 £40,000 Jamie’s Farm Box The Eikon Charity £40,000 Addlestone £20,000 Motiv8 South Ltd Gosport £9,500
12 LandAid’s projects with organisations over a number of years. in 2012–13 Projects LandAid are intending to fund in 2013–14, once sufficient funds are available, are identified early. LandAid will provide 2012–13 was an important year funding, and also other forms of support, such in consolidating our investment as free property expertise, and work experience strategy. LandAid ran an open opportunities for unemployed young people. There is enormous demand for the unique grant application process, asking combination of support that LandAid can organisations that work with offer, and we look forward to working with vulnerable young people across the Foundation Partners to grow this offer. UK to come forward with project proposals and funding requests.
Within the financial year LandAid made grant commitments worth a total of £1.049m – the highest annual value awarded to date. We provided grants to 21 Charity Partners in 2012–13, an increase from 18 in 2011-12.
As a fundraising foundation, LandAid only commits to grants when the funds are raised, and also the majority of grants go to capital projects, which can take some time to deliver. This means that Co-investing in a LandAid project LandAid’s impact should be looked at across a number of years. In the period 2012–15 SEGRO is providing a grant of £120,000 through LandAid, pro The grants are complimented by the investment of bono property advice and hands-on practical free professional property expertise to projects. This help to Slough YMCA. The project will double pro bono giving, worth approximately £250,000 the number of bedrooms available for care in fees in 2012–13, helps charities save money on leavers in a house in Britwell. Slough YMCA building projects and increases the impact of the provide supported accommodation for young LandAid grant investments. The £1.049m total people who are leaving care, homeless, seeking grant awards in 2012–13 benefitted from a lower asylum or recently released from prison. level of commitment in the previous financial year. Going forward, LandAid aims to donate at least An important area of growth has been co- £1m per annum to projects across the UK. By the investment; Foundation Partners funding end of the Summer 2013, just over £500,000 was projects alongside LandAid. In 2012–13 a committed to projects with charity partners, with total of £140,000 was donated in four co- more commitments to follow throughout 2013–14. investments by Foundation Partners British Land, Canary Wharf Group, the Redevco The projects LandAid has funded are those Foundation and SEGRO. where we can have a significant impact and work
13 “I’ve got a job interview, next week: it’s for the cadets. I’m starting College at the end of the month, to do Computing Support. We’ve got a baby on the way. We’re going to find out if it’s a boy or a girl next week.
I’ve got a steady relationship, I’m off the drugs, don’t drink at all. Everything’s just running a lot smoother now. I feel brilliant, great. My ambitions are to settle down, with a proper family and my own house.
A good job – even if that means going to lots of interviews still – I want a good job, a steady job, not a dead end job. A job I can progress in. Finish College; get good grades, healthy baby, a steady relationship – the perfect life.” Sean, aged 19, a Venture Trust Participant
14 Helping projects with professional advice & practical support
LandAid is uniquely placed to offer professional property support to charities; expertise that is worth hundreds of pounds. Our Foundation Partners are leading companies who design, build, fit-out, fund, own and manage offices, housing, shopping centres, shops, business and industrial parks. They include companies that provide professional services; surveyors, lawyers, architects, town planners, project managers, contractors, bankers and recruitment consultants. Many of our partners help charities deal with property challenges, such as to relocate, refurbish their premises or negotiate a lease. There are also opportunities for partners to collaborate in multi-disciplinary teams to scope, design, cost and programme projects.
Providing free professional advice
Venture Trust – projects in Applecross and Edinburgh Grant funding from the Redevco Foundation and LandAid Companies helping – GVA, Pinsent Masons, Miller Developments, DTZ
LandAid and Foundation Partner, the Redevco Foundation, provided a £90,000 grant in 2012–13 to modernise Venture Trust’s residential centre in Applecross, North West Scotland, where young people undertake wilderness courses. The grant The Applecross Centre, Venture Trust, North West Scotland has created an efficient and welcoming base camp for participants.
LandAid is also coordinating Foundation Partners to help Venture Trust find new premises in the Edinburgh area; a base “It was probably the first for their central Scotland outreach and time in my life I was surrounded community-based support. Advice is by people who really cared and being provided pro bono on business plan, genuinely wanted to help.” property search, design brief and also on the lease arrangements for leaving current Margaret, a Venture Trust premises. participant
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‘’Hawkins\Brown have I have enjoyed listening to the young people talk about their goals. It made me reflect really enjoyed working with on my own luck and all the opportunities I LandAid and The Prince’s Trust have had.” on the refurbishment of their Steve Taylor, Network Rail training centres... using our expertise to help them find ways of transforming their centres Providing practical, across the country has been really inspiring for us.” hands-on help with projects Lucy Dinnen, Hawkins\Brown LandAid offers Foundation Partners opportunities to spend a day working at a charity, a great chance to make a contribution and for team building.
The Prince’s Trust Projects in Salford, Burnley, Hackney Companies helping – Hawkins\Brown, Sir Robert McAlpine, Capita Symonds, Lambert Smith Hampton
Network Rail Compost Building Day at Bromley-by- LandAid started supporting the charity Bow, London, August 2013 Fairbridge in 2008, and has continued to do so since its merger with The Prince’s Trust in 2011. The LandAid support is Seeing LandAid’s delivered on a pro bono basis by LandAid impact first hand Foundation Partners Hawkins\Brown, Sir Robert McAlpine, Capita Symonds LandAid runs events where Foundation Partners and Lambert Smith Hampton. The work visit a charity project and meet staff and young includes the design, cost plan and work people who have benefited from our support. programme for the reorganisation and upgrading of the Salford centre; and the creation of a Design Guide, which will be used by The Prince’s Trust as they refurbish all 26 of their existing centres. The pro bono involves a survey and lease negotiations with the developer for a new centre in Burnley. It also includes a schedule of works and cost estimates for the refurbishment of space in the
Hackney centre, which has received Jones Lang LaSalle, Grainger and Bond Dickinson visit Stepney grant funding from LandAid. Bank Stables, Newcastle, September 2012
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Inspiring young people to succeed
Projects and some of the young people supported by LandAid – clockwise from top: Community Links FRE 17 Flyers; Jamie’s Farm, Brathay Trust and Roundabout Providing somewhere safe to live
For many young people, having a place called home can make a big difference. LandAid believes that everyone should have a secure and safe place to live. LandAid invests in projects that provide shelter and stability to young people who are homeless or insecurely housed.
2012 Success Story Roundabout Sheffield £10,000
In June 2013 the first young people moved into Roundabout’s refurbished emergency “Being at the Roundabout hostel. LandAid’s grant provided a life hostel has shown me how to live skills training room with IT equipment. Residents participate in courses on personal independently and I am now finance, cooking, health, drug and alcohol going into schools to share my own awareness; they acquire the skills and confidence to live independently. experiences of leaving home.”
Roundabout is the only service in Sheffield Paige, Young Person at that accepts 16 and 17 year olds in an Roundabout Hostel emergency. At least 200 young people will live in the hostel each year, each person will attend an average of 42 training sessions.
18 East Cleveland Youth Housing Trust Skinningrove £25,000
ECYH Trust works with disadvantaged young people providing training and hands-on work experience in construction. ECYH Trust also provides accommodation to single, homeless young people. LandAid’s grant is funding the renovation of terraced houses in Skinningrove to provide high quality and affordable supported accommodation. The grant will enable 60 of the young people supported by the charity to work on the project and gain construction skills and accreditation at a local college.
Grimsby & Cleethorpes Area Doorstep Grimsby £25,000
Doorstep provides support to young people “Good quality who are homeless, at risk of becoming accommodation is a first homeless or need help to maintain a settled way of life. LandAid’s grant will create two step in building self-esteem flats, a counselling room and an extension and self-worth in young to the drop-in centre in Grimsby. With the improved facilities Doorstep aims to people who have suffered increase the number of people they work with and to improve on their current multiple deprivations.” 60% success rate of young people making positive moves into education, training or Carol Branthwaite, employment. St Basils Hostel
St Basils Birmingham £150,000
St Basils provides accommodation for up to 400 young people a night. It aims to stop the cycle of repeat homelessness by helping young people develop the skills and confidence to live independently. LandAid’s grant is funding the refurbishment of accommodation for vulnerable young mothers and babies. The grant will provide a safe haven and opportunities for the young women to develop their parenting skills and to re-engage with education, training and employment.
19 Creating a safety net & supporting rehabilitation
Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are at risk of becoming disengaged and making damaging life choices. LandAid funds projects that take young people to a new, safe environment to demonstrate alternative choices, develop self-confidence and create positive opportunities.
2012 Success Story
Community Links FRE Flyers Project which stands for Friendship, Respect and Newham, London £85,000 Excellence – the Olympic values. The first year has been amazing with expansion into tennis LandAid’s grant funded the first year of the and individual participant’s achievements Community Links FRE Flyers. For 35 years, surpassing all previous expectations. The Community Links has been working to tackle project has reached over 600 young people, poverty and social exclusion in Newham. They with 70 benefitting from regular sessions and support around 16,000 disadvantaged people each in-depth training and support. 23 young people year, helping them to build their way out of poverty completed training and gained 36 qualifications and towards a brighter future. in sports coaching. Four of the FRE Flyers are now working for Community Links, enabling FRE Flyers is an innovative project bringing the FRE Flyers project to expand. Regular together young people living around the Olympic FRE Flyers benefit from additional personal Park and national sporting bodies and teams – development and mentoring. Some of the starting with the Great Britain Hockey teams. FRE highlights have been cheering on the GB Hockey Flyers is a catalyst in changing young people’s teams during the Olympic Games and, for one lives, using sport help them develop and progress. 15 year-old budding athlete, a visit to watch The first FRE Flyers chose the club’s name ‘FRE’ Jessica Ennis-Hill train.
“The money from LandAid has meant that the FRE Flyers can expand and get new members, and we can carry on training and try out new sports, instead of hanging about on the streets.” Stevie Mitchell, 16, FRE Flyer
20 2012 Success Story
Goodwin Development Trust Hull £15,000
Darley’s was a derelict public house on Hull’s Thornton Estate, one of the most deprived communities in the UK. LandAid’s grant enabled Goodwin Development Trust to convert it into a youth centre. Goodwin worked with a well-established local building contractor and Hull Construction Skills College, enabling apprentices to contribute 2,400 hours in a range of trades. The joint work on the project led the contractor to establish three new full time jobs for apprentices.
In its first year of operation, Darley’s Youth Centre has had more than 7,000 young people attend sessions in: drugs and alcohol, global awareness, English, multi-media, music, drama, sports and arts. It hosts West Hull Community Radio and the “Voice and Influence” initiative which encourages young people to participate in society.
Brathay Trust Cumbria £50,000
Brathay runs a residential activity centre visited by 4,000 young people from disadvantaged backgrounds every year, where they take part in educational programmes and transformative, outdoor learning experiences. LandAid’s grant is for the conversion of a building into a self-contained residence for up to eight young people who are being looked after in foster homes or local authority accommodation. Here, the young people will have an opportunity to acquire cooking and budgeting skills; helping them to make the transition to independent living.
“Brathay Trust has inspired Fuse Youth Café me to be successful, be who Glasgow £50,000 I am and given me a vision. Fuse Youth Café is a drop-in centre for at risk 10- I have more confidence and to-25 year olds based in a renovated public house respect for myself now.” in Shettleston in the East End of Glasgow. Fuse Young Person, Brathay Trust is a hub for volunteers, government and other organisations to provide support to local young people. LandAid’s grant is to renovate unused spaces, and to improve the building’s energy efficiency and external appearance.
21 Delivering life skills, education & training
It’s a massive challenge for many young people to build a life, especially if you don’t have the support of a family, have been homeless, failed or struggled at school, have been in trouble or have health problems. LandAid believes that done sensitively, developing skills can change the direction of someone’s life, permanently.
2012 Success Story
Burley Lodge Centre space for young people’s projects. The charity Leeds £10,000 needed to stretch the budget as far as possible, and did this by providing opportunities for Burley Lodge is a small, innovative charity students at the local Building College to gain providing a range of services in a deprived work experience on the project. Volunteers ward of Leeds. Local young people are at completed the job by undertaking the painting, risk of becoming involved in crime and anti- and the young people personalised the space social behaviour: Burley Lodge helps them and made it their own. The new space has also access training, employment and education attracted support from a major IT company and encourages them to become active citizens who have donated computers and are training in their own community. LandAid’s grant young people as mentors; who can now work has converted a large, unused basement in alongside other young people to develop their the Burley Lodge Centre into a dedicated IT skills.
“Without the early support from LandAid it is unlikely this project would have happened – their funding has meant we have been able to secure other funding and support. We cannot thank them enough.” Kim Johnston, Development Manager, Burley Lodge Centre
22 2012 Success Story
Keyhouse Bradford £10,000
Keyhouse runs the ‘Grow, Cook and Eat’ project, providing training in horticulture, cooking and healthy eating. A refurbished and fully equipped training kitchen was opened in June 2013. LandAid’s grant award in 2011 part funded the kitchen, and gave other funders confidence to contribute. For the last six years Keyhouse has run a successful project in seven allotment plots worked as a single growing area. Now about 100 service users per year will attend cooking sessions, gain qualifications and learn about their own health and well-being. Keyhouse works with homeless and formerly homeless young people, teenage parents, care leavers, refugees and ex-offenders. The charity provides training, supported accommodation and legal advice in housing, welfare rights and debt.
Jamie’s Farm “The funding we received from LandAid Wiltshire £40,000 sends a vitally affirmative message to young people in one of the most deprived areas of London – Jamie’s Farm runs short stay that they fully deserve these fantastic resources.” residential and follow up programmes for disadvantaged 8-to-18 year olds Babu Bhattacherjee, Director, from urban areas. They work closely Poplar HARCA (Spotlight) with teachers and help young people in education, at home and in the community through a combination of Poplar HARCA, Spotlight Youth Centre ‘family, farming and therapy’ that acts Tower Hamlets, London £90,000 as a catalyst for young people to make positive improvements. LandAid’s grant This new community-driven youth centre in Poplar, a is to create a new dining hall. It will be neighbourhood in Tower Hamlets in the East End of London, the heart of the home for the charity will be a safe place for 13–19 year olds to mix and develop offering young people from urban skills relating to art, music, dance, drama, fashion and sport. environments the experience of living With many East London communities experiencing problems and working in a 14th century livestock with ethnic divides and gangs, the centre will be a well- farm in the Cotswolds. equipped, inspiring, positive and neutral place that will help community cohesion and encourage young people to develop interests and skills relevant to the job market in London. The LandAid grant is for the fit-out of the art and fashion studio, media suite and two classrooms. One of the classrooms will be used as a beauty treatment and training room, to maximize the attraction of the centre to young women who don’t traditionally use youth services locally. The investment has been made possible by co-investments from British Land and Canary Wharf Group who, with LandAid, are each providing one-third of the funding.
23 Assisting the search for work
Young people from a background of disadvantage can find it very difficult to get through the door of most companies, let alone secure employment. It’s a challenge that requires courage, determination, focus and a helping hand to overcome. LandAid funds projects that give young people opportunities; by providing employability training and schemes that are dedicated to finding and securing employment.
2012 Success Story
Bromley by Bow Centre Tower Hamlets, London £10,000
In early 2012, LandAid part funded Bromley by Bow Centre’s innovative employability project, Capital Talent. This flagship programme, delivers skills and personal resilience training to hard to reach young people living in the heart of London’s East End.
The programme supports local young people to overcome negative perceptions and highlights the benefits of employment; it involves one-to-one guidance, employment taster sessions, job search, interview and personal confidence building workshops. The first year of Capital Talent has had a significant impact; 90% “My future is much brighter than of the young people completing the course have been supported it was before. I have a career in into work, further education or mind and I am on my way.” training. Young person involved in Capital Talent client, Bromley-by-Bow Centre
24 Motiv8 Gosport, Hampshire £9,500 “Without support from LandAid the kitchen fit out would not be happening at Each year Motiv8 supports more than 900 vulnerable this time; whilst Motiv8 is in a strong position young people to reach a positive for revenue funding to deliver services destination, and to reduce youth to young people we do not have sufficient crime and anti-social behaviour. assets to undertake building projects without LandAid’s grant is funding a external support.” kitchen to provide life skills and employability training to young Kirsty Cremer, Motiv8 people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET).
The Jericho Foundation Birmingham £50,000
Jericho supports the young and disadvantaged to overcome the barriers of prejudice, poverty, offending, “The LandAid homelessness, drugs, disability, ill health funding enables us to bring or lack of work experience. Jericho an otherwise ‘dead space’ provides individuals with real paid work alongside personal development, into full use as a vital mentoring, employability skills, training educational resource.” and job search and then supports young Linda Phillips MBE, Director, people into sustainable jobs elsewhere. Roots LandAid’s grant will provide business incubator and work spaces, one to and Shoots one advice rooms and energy efficient upgrades to Jericho’s premises.
Roots and Shoots Lambeth, London £150,000
Roots and Shoots works with young people with learning, social and emotional problems to prepare them for the world of work. They have developed a programme of tailored educational and vocational activities for young people, including English, Maths, IT, personal development and vocational training in horticulture and retail. LandAid’s grant is funding the refurbishment of a dilapidated London prefab building to become a study centre, and the ‘Jewel in the Crown’ for this innovative gardening charity.
25 Fundraising Highlights
LandAid’s Fundraising Events
LandAid is associated with a wide range of events throughout the property calendar year and we are grateful to all our partners who fundraise Which events at their events, for example Property Race Day, Movers & Shakers, Construction Rocks, British would we enjoy or Council of Shopping Centres, Sociable Surveyors, the Association of Property Lenders, Property could sponsor? Awards, Reading Real Estate Foundation Rugby Match and many others.
The five events that LandAid directly run create LandAid Summer Party – June a great focus for our partners to network with Our annual Summer Party is one of the property colleagues from across the industry, hear about industry’s premier annual events and is always in a the impact we are having, host clients and have a memorable venue where hosts and guests enjoy an fantastic time. evening of entertainment, auctions and insight into LandAid’s work. These events are only made possible by the careful and enthusiastic work of our committees, the LandAid Sporting Challenge – June generosity of event sponsors, the donations of our Each year we host at least one sporting challenge, guests and the fundraising of participants. LandAid whether it’s a 5 or 10 km run around one of raises over £200,000 each year at these events. London’s beautiful parks, a run up over 350 steps to the top of a London office, or an abseil down the The LandAid Annual Debate – February outside of one of London’s tallest buildings; there is Our annual debate hosted in London’s City Hall a challenge there for everyone! welcomes the most senior audience from the LandAid Summer Run June 2013, sponsored by GVA property industry and provides the opportunity to hear from international commentators on a topic of the day. This is “a unique gathering” in the property calendar. The latest debate asked: After the success of London 2012, and in a world of “Competitive Cities: Can London Stay Ahead of the Game?”
LandAid Debate March 2013, sponsored by Pinsent Mason
LandAid Partner Reception – September This evening reception provides an opportunity for LandAid partners to meet and hear about the year past and our plans for the year ahead.
26 LandAid Day – October LandAid Day is about friendly competition within the industry with almost 90 companies stepping up Let’s get to the challenge to fundraise, life-changing amounts our teams in weird and wonderful ways. Each year the day is themed and involves events organised by our partners and by the LandAid team. In October 2012 the theme involved “All the fun of the fair” brought out the clown in many individuals, particularly those taking part in the LandAid treasure hunt around the City of London.
DTZ Bike Week, raising over £43,000 – a UK-wide celebration as DTZ set out to peddle the miles to get from London to Sydney. Sheer enthusiasm in DTZ’s offices across the country Company, Team & Personal meant that they clocked up 21,960 miles on Challenges static and mobile bikes; doubling the target distance and raising a lot of money on the way. One of the many amazing parts of the LandAid family is the energy and determination that Hannah Noble, Savills, two-way Channel Relay companies and people display as they take on a Swim – Hannah and three swimming colleagues challenge and raise funds for LandAid. Whether completed the two-way English Channel relay a company or team doing something collectively swim in an amazing 28 hours and 17 minutes, for LandAid as their charity of the year, or an swimming non-stop through a night, the next day intrepid individual taking on a personal challenge, and another night, before arriving back in Dover. congratulations and thank you very much indeed. Edward Ellerington, Samantha Wigley and Here are just a few recent highlights: Melanie Weaver, Grainger – setting out for the summit of Africa’s highest peak, the intrepid Property JOGLE raising over £310,000 (50% Grainger trio set out to top Mount Kilimanjaro’s pledged to LandAid) – celebrating their efforts 5,895-metre peak. in the London Marathon back in 1987, 22 people jumped on their bikes for the 1,050 mile journey Norman Courts, Network Rail – completing the from John O’Groats to Land’s End. An incredible Highland Cross 50-mile duathlon raising funds for idea; an outstanding achievement. LandAid every step and pedal of the way.
27 Thank you TO:
LANDAID Foundation Partners
GROUP PLC
28 LANDAID Foundation Partners (continued)
LANDAID IndustrY, Media and Event Partners
29 Thank you TO:
LANDAID Charity Partners LandAid Trustees
For all the sensitive and amazing work you do Robin Broadhurst (Chair) with children and young people across the UK, Suzanne Avery, RBS for sharing your experience with the LandAid Rob Bould, GVA family and for help with this document. You are Jenny Buck, Tesco a constant source of inspiration. Alistair Elliott, Knight Frank David Erwin, Cushman & Wakefield Lynette Lackey, Greenside Real Estate Solutions LANDAID Volunteers Jeremy Newsum, Grosvenor Robert Noel, Land Securities To the many, many volunteers that have helped at Liz Peace, British Property Federation events throughout the year. We wouldn’t have been Tim Roberts, British Land able to do it without you. Mike Slade, Helical Bar David Taylor, Pinsent Masons
LandAid COMMITTEES Executive TEAM Contacts Grants Committee Jeremy Newsum (Chair), Grosvenor www.landaid.org Jenny Buck, Tesco Gaynor Gillespie, Capital & Regional Joanna Averley Anna Strongman, Argent Group Chief Executive [email protected] Fundraising Committee 020 3102 7190 / 07748966718 David Erwin (Chair), Cushman & Wakefield Rob Bould (Chair - Departing), GVA Caroline Fraser Jo Allen, Frogmore Head of Grants & Projects Mike Biddle, Angermann Goddard & Lloyd [email protected] Alistair Elliott, Knight Frank 020 3102 7190 / 07780660138 Marc Franks, Nabarro Andrew Gulliford, SEGRO Leah De Silva Craig Hughes, PwC Head of Fundraising & Partnerships Alison Lawrence, Disney [email protected] Craig McWilliam, Grosvenor 020 3102 7190 / 07968814913 Alex Price, Palmer Capital Tim Roberts, British Land LandAid Charitable Trust Mike Slade, Helical Bar St Albans House Damian Wild, Estates Gazette 5th Floor 57-59 Haymarket Finance and Audit Committee London Lynette Lackey (Chair), Greenside Real Estate SW1Y 4QX Solutions Clive Philp, British Land David Taylor, Pinsent Masons
30 THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! from LandAid & all the young people whose lives you are helping transform.
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