Community

Performance summary

Last year we said we would:		This past year we have:		In the coming year our priorities are to:
Complete our sponsorship and donations strategy.		Developed our sponsorship policy and toolkit and developed the strategy.		Improve alignment of community involvement and development with business activities and continue to involve our people. Continue to use and improve the quality of data captured in London Benchmarking Group to measure our community contributions. Implement the Community Development Toolkit in our Residential business and train development managers on our approach.
Improve reporting on our community contributions, particularly on what we contribute to the community through sponsorship, donations and volunteering.		Measured our community contributions using the London Benchmarking Group.
Establish community development guidelines that can be applied to our residential community projects nationally.		Developed a Community Development Toolkit.

Strengthening our place within the community is one of the five strategic themes in our CR&S strategy. This includes:

• Supporting a consistent approach to community development,
• Extending our Giving and Volunteering program,
• Measuring our community contribution.

We have been focusing on these areas by implementing specific initiatives as well as building internal and external understanding of our role in the community.

Community information in this report

The community development section includes information on community engagement in our developments and our impact on local and national economies.

The community involvement section details our Giving and Volunteering program and how we are measuring our community contribution through the London Benchmarking Group.