Great Portland Estates PLC GPE plc launches new community strategy (5627N)
May 10 2018 - 1:00AM
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RNS Number : 5627N
Great Portland Estates PLC
10 May 2018
10 May 2018
Great Portland Estates plc launches new community strategy -
"Creating sustainable relationships"
Building on our long-term vision for sustainability, Great
Portland Estates plc ("GPE") is pleased to announce the launch of
its new community strategy, "Creating sustainable relationships".
This strategy recognises the importance of our social impact and
the relationships that we need to build to ensure the long-term
success of our business.
GPE has a long tradition of supporting local causes and donating
to charitable organisations, and "Creating sustainable
relationships" helps put our ambition in practice on issues that
directly impact London through specific initiatives. We are
expanding educational opportunities and apprenticeships across our
portfolio, increasing urban greening at our properties, and also
measuring the social impact of our developments.
We have also committed to:
-- Work with Centrepoint (www.centrepoint.org.uk) as our
corporate charity partner for the next three years. Centrepoint
supports more than 9,200 homeless young people a year, many of them
within London, through the provision of accommodation, health
support and life skills to get them back in education, training and
employment;
-- Provide funding over the next three years to Groundwork
London (www.groundwork.org.uk/sites/London) to install green
screening around the perimeters of playgrounds in a number of
London schools, in order to measure the impact on local air
quality; and
-- Join the Wild West End initiative (www.wildwestend.london), which focuses on improving green infrastructure across London's West End.
For more details, please see our "Creating sustainable
relationships" document at
www.gpe.co.uk/our-relationships/local-communities/
Toby Courtauld, GPE Chief Executive, commented "We believe that
this strategy, coupled with our commitment to integrating the
measurement of social impact through the design and construction of
our buildings, will deliver lasting benefit for the communities in
which we are working."
Contacts:
Great Portland Estates plc
Toby Courtauld, Nick Sanderson, Janine Cole 020 7647 3000
Finsbury
Gordon Simpson 020 7251 3801
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