2010 Performance

Investing in Communities and Places

Maximising portfolio value by investing in places and engaging with communities.

As a landlord and property developer we recognise our responsibility to local communities where we work. It has always been our approach to ensure we give something back to society and to listen to the opinions of those affected by our business.

This helps us to create valuable new communities and to maintain positive long-term relationships. Community investment takes many forms at Grainger, including staff volunteering, community engagement and charitable donations.

This year we and our staff donated over £50,000 in money and time to charitable causes – our highest level in four years. The equivalent of 30% of Grainger staff participated in a day of community volunteering projects and we are enormously grateful to those who donated their time and skills. We will strive to achieve or beat this level of staff volunteering in 2010/11.

Next year we will seek out the sustainability opportunities within our development programme with a focus on renewable energy and metrics.