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Land Trust Annual Review 2020

Our sites play
an important
role in aiding our
communities’ Chief Executive’s report
physical and
mental wellbeing

“...We are doing everything we can

to manage this challenge and ensure
a bright and prosperous future for the charity.”

We have enjoyed another workforce, we were also able to ensure that they were
successful year, with further maintained to the best possible standards during this time.
sites brought into our ownership
and management and increased It is too early to say what the long-term implications of
charitable delivery across our Covid-19 will be for the Land Trust, but we are doing
parks and green spaces. everything we can to manage this challenge and ensure
a bright and prosperous future for the charity. There
With people’s appreciation of will undoubtedly be some impact in terms of charitable
the natural environment growing delivery, particularly in the early part of 2020-21, but we are
considerably during the period of lockdown to deal with continuing to engage with our communities and volunteer
Covid-19, which started a week before the end of the workforce, enabling us to make a positive difference to
2019-20 financial year, I’ve been very proud to see the people’s lives.
Land Trust taking a lead in ensuring that our sites play
such an important role in aiding our communities If nothing else the pandemic has brought home to many
physical and mental wellbeing. the importance of well managed and designed public
open space in helping create and maintain the health and
Fortunately, the effects of Covid-19 on the Trust have wellbeing of communities. We look forward to continuing
been limited so far. Our staff team has adapted quickly our work with Government and our partners, ensuring that
and effectively to the challenges of home working, made proper funding is available, not just to create new parks
significantly easier by the work done by our I.T team to and green spaces, but to maintain that space in the future.
get the appropriate infrastructure in place in advance.
Although our volunteering activities had to be postponed Placekeeping, as we call it, is what creates places where
at the year end and into the new financial year due to people want to live, work and play. Failure to maintain
the guidelines around social distancing, we were able to these spaces damages society and is the key reason that
keep the vast majority of our green spaces open for our we founded the Land Trust 16 years ago.
communities to use.
Finally, I would like to thank our committed team of staff,
Working closely with our dedicated Managing Partners volunteers and managing partners without whom none of
and contractors, and in some cases our volunteer our charitable delivery would have been possible.

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