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Land Trust Annual Review 2020

“We recognise that well-managed

green space around developments is what
helps create healthy resilient communities.”

Social Value Model Delivering social value
Economic Our Social Value model, developed in partnership with on our service charge sites

and social value: AMION Consulting, allows us to measure our impact by Since 2016 the Land Trust has been managing public
assessing the benefits of our green space management
open space within residential developments for the
against our five key charitable objectives of:
benefits of homeowners/occupiers, who pay the Trust
Service Charge Environment and biodiversity a service charge to carry out this work on their behalf.
Health and wellbeing The Trust has been growing this area of its
Education and learning operations rapidly over the last four years, and now
Economic vitality has responsibility for the management of green space
The long term success of communities we work Community cohesion and volunteering on nine service charge sites, on behalf of over 4,400
our spaces is important with. We understand homeowners. We recognise that well-managed green
to the reputation of that our role goes You will read more about the economic and social value space around developments is what helps create
the Land Trust, our beyond simply delivered against our charitable objectives throughout healthy resilient communities.
managing partners and managing green space this review.
the developers and and is about creating In 2019-20 for the first time, the Trust analysed the
economic and social value created on its service charge
landowners we work communities and places sites, with the model showing nearly £2.5 million was
with, but above all, far where people want to created from the management of the green spaces
more important to the live, work and play. around the Trust’s service charge sites. This figure rises
to over £16 million when the uplift in property prices is
taken in to consideration.

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