Picton Property Income Limited Sustainability Report 2021

PictonProperty Income Limited Sustainability Report 2021

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Stakeholder Engagement

Introduction

Approach

Environmental Focus

Sustainable Buildings

Our Employees

Appendix

Stakeholder Engagement Workingwith our stakeholders continued

Charitable giving and partnerships

Charitable funding award Supporting local communities

Coram offers support to over one million vulnerable young children and their families each year through finding adoptive families for children in need of permanent homes and helping parents by offering support through their children’s early years. Since 2018, our partnership with Coram has provided the teamwith opportunities to volunteer and become involved with local events and fundraising in London. We have not been able to volunteer with Coram this year due to Covid-19 restrictions, however we are looking forward to developing the relationship further along with future volunteering opportunities when circumstances allow. LandAid is aiming to bring the property industry together to end youth homelessness in the UK and support charities delivering life changing services for young people who are or have been homeless, or who are at risk of homelessness in the future. We support LandAid primarily through the Christmas Card Alternative campaign. Our occupier led charitable matched giving initiative supports occupiers within our portfolio in their local community-based fundraising efforts. All our occupiers are invited to apply for a matched giving donation of up to £100 per year for a registered UK charity.

Our charitable giving donations this year totalled £29,000. Our aim through our charitable giving and charity partnerships is to invest in our communities at grassroots level, aiming tomake a positive difference to the local areas in which we own property. We seek to support charities who: – Drive positive social change – Respond to specific local needs – Create a positive community impact – Are committed to improving local areas The principal charities that we have supported this year are The Funding Network, Coram and LandAid. The Funding Network is a charity which links potential donors to charitable cases and social entrepreneurs using live crowdfunding. Through regular attendance of these fundraising events, the team is able to hear pitches from leaders of grassroots charities working to address social issues and offer support to those driving change.

To mark our fifteenth anniversary, we created a funding award of £15,000 to help local charities in the communities in which we operate. We invited our occupiers to nominate their favourite community causes to apply for a funding award of between £1,000 and £3,000. Applications were sought from non-profit registered organisations, committed to supporting local communities, through creating, delivering or expanding projects which improve community engagement.

We were delighted to receive a large number of applications from a wide range of causes and be able to confirm our support for five charities providing local community services. The successful charities included: Your Sanctuary, a charity supporting survivors of domestic abuse within Surrey, The Link Visiting Scheme, a charity helping elderly and isolated people combat loneliness in Wokingham, Capel Community Trust, building a local community garden to help bring residents together, Strathcarron Hospice, providing hospice at home support for families in Central Scotland and I CAN, a children’s communication support charity in London.

In the current Covid-19 climate, the issues we are tackling are enormous and this additional funding will enable us to continue to help children and young people with speech, language and communication needs to find their voice, and develop the skills they need to thrive and fulfil their potential. Bob Reitemeier CBE CEO of I CAN

£29,000 Charitable donations

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