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Community cohesion and volunteering Land Trust Annual Review 2020

Our Waking the Giant
event at Fort Burgoyne
was a huge success
thanks to the support
of our volunteers

The positive impact of our volunteers Service charge Practicing what we preach

Friends Of groups, communities and our volunteers are Community engagement is a huge part of what At the Land Trust we believe in practicing what we
an absolutely vital part of the successful management we do across our service charge sites. With preach which is why our staff took part in a volunteering
of our parks and green spaces and there are so many responsibility for the public open space within nine day at Port Sunlight River Park, following our managing
fantastic examples of people giving up their time to make residential developments, and on behalf of over 4,400 partners conference.
a difference on the sites near where they live and work. homeowners, the community activities which we run
on our service charge are vital to bringing the new
On the Land Trust site at Fort Burgoyne the ages of the residents together, turning neighbours into friends
volunteers range from students at school or college and and houses into homes. Economic and social value delivered
working people to the active retired. The volunteers
help in many activities including working with the local We run a range of activities on our sites including COMMUNITY AND PLACE VALUE (PER ANNUM) TYPE OF VALUE
Primary and Pre Schools to plant over 200 metres of seasonal events at Easter, Christmas and Summer. VOLUNTEERING £668,362 GROSS VALUE ADDED
new hedge in the winter months. They also assist with VOLUNTEERING £444,553 ECONOMIC VALUE
the Green Gang children’s events throughout the year At all of our service charge spaces our Estates team RECREATIONAL & CULTURAL VALUE £7,884,332 ECONOMIC VALUE
as well as running kite making, bird boxes and crafty establish a Residents Working Group so that the COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT £1,191,060 ECONOMIC VALUE
clay creation sessions. homeowners can become engaged with how the public ASB INCIDENTS £1,041, 755 COST SAVING
open spaces around their homes are run.
The icing on the cake was the Waking the Giant event We also have dedicated Facebook pages for each
which was held just a couple of weeks before the UK of our sites where residents can raise queries about
went into lockdown due to Covid - 19. The volunteers any aspect of our management of the green space.
were asked to give tours of the Fort, with over 600
members of the public being shown round by 14 We also have a dedicated email address and telephone
stewards and guides during the day. number for residents to be able to contact us 24/7.

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