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Chief Executive Land Trust Annual Review 2018

Euan Hall

Chief Executive

Making a difference
The past 12 months have been ones of
great progress for the Land Trust. With 63
sites across the country our work has had
a positive impact across so many areas,
including our key charitable objectives
of environment and biodiversity, health,
education and learning, economic vitality
and community cohesion.
In the last year alone, working with our
managing partners who make such a vital
contribution to the success of our sites, 1.3
million people have enjoyed spending time in
our green spaces, over 40,000 volunteer hours
have been completed and 13,200 individuals
took part in educational or training activities
Euan Hall has on our sites.
been Chief
Executive of
the Land Trust A summary of our activities and events for Evidencing our impact Site acquisitions
since 2004 2017-18 is shown below. As the 15th anniversary of the Land Trust 2017-18 has seen more land come under
rapidly approaches it is incredible to see our management, adding a 75 hectare
how far we have come and how many service charge site at Waverley to our
people’s lives we are positively affecting. portfolio. This brings our portfolio of land
under management to 2,367 hectares.
Over the last 12 months we have committed
significant time and resource to understanding Our role in delivering sustainable green
and evidencing the contribution that we make, infrastructure, integrating green space into
2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 and proving that well managed green space the built environment and helping to secure
can have a positive impact on people’s physical better quality environments and better
SCHOOL VISITS 3,500 6,278 7,711 7,811 7,448 7,970 and mental wellbeing, the economy, local places for people to live, saw us recognised
community and the environment. You will read at the High Sheriff of Cheshire Awards
TRAINING ACTIVITIES 800 660 802 1,572 1,712 3,591
more about this work throughout our review. for Enterprise with the Land Trust taking
HEALTH ACTIVITIES 4,500 8,648 9,501 14,885 20,857 39,391 home the award for Responsible Business
This evidence will be highly valuable in the Practice. This is further evidence that our
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES 8,000 18,570 15,887 31,867 54,868 59,403 future when lobbying key decision makers placekeeping philosophy is working.
for more investment in green space and
PRACTICAL VOLUNTARY WORK (DAYS) 3,000 5,274 8,064 14,474 11,503 10,379
infrastructure.

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