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Our People and Partners

We see ourselves as a people centred Our model of working with local partners to
organisation. The ongoing success of the Land run the day-to-day management of our sites
Trust can only be achieved through the continued means that local site management contracts
commitment of our entire team to find innovative are responsible for the employment of a
solutions to acquire and manage sites, support further 38 people. Our Managing Partners
customers and deliver charitable benefits. As at are chosen based on their knowledge of the
31 March 2017, we directly employed 39 people; locality, integration with the community and
27 full time and 12 part time (vs 38 in 2015/16). ability to deliver our charitable objectives.
We are committed to continuously developing Working together we develop a Management
our people and throughout the year we have Plan against which their performance is regularly
coached, supported and trained all of our monitored. By offering five and ten year contracts,
leaders to benefit their teams. We have also our Managing Partners have the confidence to
worked with the University of Brighton on a appoint staff and deliver longer term projects.
PhD research project at Port Sunlight River Following a competitive retendering process
Park in Wirral and supported University of the previous year, The Conservation Volunteers
Chester students and others with work based started to manage seven sites across our South
volunteering opportunities to support their career. Yorkshire portfolio with Doncaster MBC continuing
We actively manage the health and safety to manage Warren House Park for the coming
of our staff and sites and have joined the ten years. We look forward to working with
Visitor Safety in the Countryside Group. them and all our Managing Partners to deliver
some exciting projects in the coming years.

The variety of awards that we have
achieved reinforces our unique model and
WINNER OF the delivery of our charitable outcomes.
THE PROPERTY

WEEK RESI
NEWCOMER
OF THE YEAR

AWARD

Awards

We believe that our unique approach to funding and managing green spaces
is great – but it is even better when we get external recognition too.

This year the Land Trust won the Cheshire Green Business Award and was shortlisted for
the Guardian Sustainable Business Award in the Finance for Good category. At the end
of the year, we were particularly pleased that our new service charge subsidiary, Land
Trust Residential Services, won the Property Week RESI Newcomer of the Year Award.
Our sites also received national and regional recognition. In April 2017, Port Sunlight River
Park was highly commended in the North West RICS Regeneration Award recognising
the remediation work that had taken place to transform the site. The park also won the
Wirral Third Sector Care Award for community engagement and was recognised at the
Liverpool Echo Environment Awards, Business Green Leaders Awards and the Wirral
Tourism Awards. We have also continued to grow the number of sites that hold the
nationally recognised Green Flag standard for parks management. Silverdale Country Park,
in Staffordshire was awarded the prestigious Keep Britain Tidy flag this year, whilst Beam
Parklands, Elba Park and Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park retained theirs. Canvey Wick,
in Essex was also shortlisted as Nature Reserve of the Year by BBC Countryfile Magazine.

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