Our Parklife Annual Report 2017 Impact Report for Our Parklife CIC Contents

Our Parklife Annual Report 2017 Impact Report for Our Parklife CIC Contents Executive Summary �� 4 Our Parklife Founding Partners �� 6 The story so far �� 8 Measuring our Impact ��12 Volunteering - Park Champions ��16 Customer and Mobility Services ��21 Local Employment and Training ��24 Educational visits careers workshops & work experience��30 Mobile Garden City ��35 Consulting our Stakeholders ��39 Collaboration & working with Park stakeholders ��42 Our Parklife Annual Report 2017 3 Executive summary Established in 2014 when Queen We have worked hard to ensure that The unique mix of expertise that stems Elizabeth Olympic Park reopened employment opportunities are targeted from our founding partners enables us Our Parklife CIC has been working in at local communities and are proud that to design new and innovative services partnership with the London Legacy over 68% of the team, that look after and ways of working with Park partners� Development Corporation (LLDC) and the Parklands and venues, come from We look forward to developing these local communities to ensure that East the host boroughs of Newham, Tower opportunities in 2018 as exciting new Londoners benefit from opportunities Hamlets, Waltham Forest and Hackney� organisations and institutions move onto to volunteer, work and gain new skills We have provided over 300 training the Park and we progress exciting new on the Park. opportunities to those volunteering or services and programmes� working with us on our employment During 2017 we have seen the Park programmes� This included individuals Our aim is to create measurable, Champion Volunteer programme grow with long term health conditions or a positive social impact for local people, from strength to strength, becoming disability wanting to enter or return to through how the Park is managed and ‘Investing in Volunteers’ accredited the world of work with ENGIE� maintained, by involving local people – the best practice standard for in services, activities and events� The volunteer management in the UK. This Our Parklife’s considerable success in income we receive for the services we continues to highlight the importance 2017 has been recognised more widely provide is reinvested in realising our we place on delivering well managed, in being ‘Highly Commended’ in the aims� meaningful and fun volunteering Experian Award for Building Stronger opportunities on and around the Park. Communities in the prestigious Business in the Community Responsible Business Our proud volunteers are the face of the Awards� Park, exuding energy, enthusiasm and passion, dedicating over 16,300 hours of Our work on Social Impact suggests we their time to customer services, mobility have created approximately £5�6m1 of services, events, community guiding and economic and social value for the local horticulture� community� 1 This is a sum of the economic value and subjective wellbeing value of our volunteering and employment programmes� 4 Executive Summary Our Parklife Annual Report 2017 5 About Our Parklife and idverde UK Renaisi idverde is wholly dedicated to providing Groundwork London quality green services and passionate Groundwork London is a social and We’re an award-winning social about ensuring a bright future for environmental regeneration charity� enterprise focussing our mission and Britain’s parks and countryside� work on a simple goal: to spark change it’s founding partners For almost 20 years they have been in place� As the UK’s largest green services at the forefront of environmental and provider, idverde’s services range from social regeneration in London; changing We believe that the best way to do this places and lives for the better in some is to ask a question: what does it take Our Parklife Community Interest professional open space management of the capital’s most disadvantaged to improve a place? What makes us Company (CIC) is a social enterprise to landscape design and build, grounds neighbourhoods� In today’s challenging unique is the fact that we do two things on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park maintenance, tree surgery, outdoor social and economic climate, the work in one business: we deliver employment designed to help deliver the legacy facilities management, biodiversity ENGIE they do has never been more important� support, advice, connection and of the 2012 London Olympic and management and waterways ENGIE is a leading energy and services engagement services to individuals and Paralympic Games. It is a truly management� idverde cares for parks company focused on three key activities: Their three over-arching objectives are we help social organisations, charities innovative joint venture being the and gardens, amenity green space, production and supply of energy, to create better places, improve people’s and institutions to deliver greater impact first CIC to bring together skills playing fields, canals and rivers, facilities management and regeneration� prospects, and promote greener living and experience from the private, woodlands, cemeteries and nature through our consultancy services� Our 17,000 employees combine these and working� charitable and social enterprise reserves for a range of public and capabilities for the benefit of individuals, sectors in one organisation. private sector customers across the UK� www.groundwork.org.uk/london www.renaisi.com businesses and communities throughout This unique partnership comprises: the UK & Ireland� We enable customers www.idverde.co.uk @GroundworkLON @Renaisi ENGIE, principal contractor for to embrace a lower carbon, more @idverdeUK estates and facilities management; efficient and increasingly digital world� idverde, the parklands management Our customers benefit from our energy sub-contractor to ENGIE; Renaisi, a efficient and smart building solutions, local social enterprise specialising the provision of effective and innovative in regeneration; and environmental services, the transformation of and social regeneration charity neighbourhoods through regeneration Groundwork London. In establishing projects, and the supply of reliable, a CIC, the partners went above and flexible and renewable energy� ENGIE beyond traditional sustainability improves lives through better living solutions. Its success lies within its and working environments� We help to ability to maximise the know-how balance performance with responsibility, and skills of the founding partners, enabling progress in a harmonious way� which has enabled the CIC to develop and deliver a diverse range of www.engie.co.uk programmes for local people. @ENGIE_UK 6 About Our Parklife and it’s founding partners Our Parklife Annual Report 2017 7 Partnership model - capacity created reates additional cap The story so far C acity Our Parklife was established to Renaisi The Estates and Facilities In our first year Our Parklife: Groundwork Management contract ensure that the Estates and Facilities London, idverde, Clear not for Management contract on the Park met n Established the Park Mobility service ENGIE ENGIE are contracted to deliver the profit brand – these ambitions� Estates and Facilities Management n Developed the Park Champion Access to expertise can be developed across ENGIE on the Park for (EFM) contract on Queen Elizabeth The Public Services (Social volunteer programme commercial Olympic Park on behalf of the London services Legacy Development Corporation Value) Act 2013 and the n Hosted education visits and careers (LLDC)� The contract approach is built ‘Convergence’ Ambition events with local schools and groups on the belief that a successful park is The Public Services (Social Value) Act n Ensured that employment and Ability to attract connected to its local community� To came into force on 31 January 2013� It Creating new training opportunities were focussed long term social requires those who commission public services – Park achieve this, the vision for delivering on local, under-represented investment as services to think about how they can Mobility the EFM contract has to be linked to the communities market develops delivery of the LLDC’s “Priority Themes” also secure wider social, economic and for social, economic and environmental environmental benefits� Our Parklife n Provided volunteering opportunities Connecting regeneration in the local area that CIC was one of the first CIC’s set up with for businesses to give back to the t C n the sole purpose of finding innovative Park and local area r Local People to e represent the regeneration legacy� e a m solutions to some of the challenges t t e the

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