Our use of resources

For managing our environmental impacts relating to energy, water, waste, sustainable travel or overall carbon emissions

• Broadgate for Recycling: all Broadgate buildings are now participating in recycling schemes. In 2007 they have recycled around 800 tonnes of glass and cardboard, saving over 100 tonnes of carbon emissions and approximately £45,000 on compactor collections.
• Meadowhall Shopping Centre for Energy Efficiency: thanks to energy efficiency initiatives, over the last four years electricity use in the Centre has reduced by 14%, reducing associated carbon emissions by over 990 tonnes.
• Eastgate Shopping Centre for Water Harvesting: as well as introducing a number of water saving initiatives the team has installed a 20,000 litre tank to store rainwater that is used to flush toilets and urinals, reducing the mains water required by over 25%.
• Meadowhall Shopping Centre for Water Efficiency: the team has already installed rainwater harvesting tanks, reducing mains water use by 20%, with plans now in place for borehole water collection to further reduce mains water use.

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Our customers and us

Initiatives that have helped British Land to understand and meet occupiers’ needs more successfully.

• Fort Kinnaird Shopping Park for their Recruitment Event: working with JobCentre Plus, WorkTrack and the community to host an annual recruitment event on-site, this year attracting over 800 people on job seekers allowance for 500 jobs
• Glasgow Fort Shopping Park for Partnership Succession Planning: working with the Glasgow Fort Partnership to enable over 40 staff from 20 stores to work towards achieving a retail-based Scottish Vocational Qualification.
• Teesside Shopping Park for their Bus Service: working with Stockton Borough Council and a small local bus operation to provide a half hourly bus service to the Park. Over 6,600 people used the service in a five month period.

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Our communities and us

Initiatives involving local people, schools, community groups or authorities on developments or properties

• Broughton, New Mersey and Crown Point North Shopping Parks for their Schools Programme: the Be the Boss, Young Managers and Retail Academy courses treat students as potential managers, improving their self-esteem and developing a sense of achievement.
• Parkgate Shopping for a Better Parkgate, a Better Rotherham: supporting three community partners: Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice, Rotherham United Football Club and Safe@last for the homeless.
• Peacocks Shopping Centre for The Sustainability Exhibition: launching a very successful Sustainability Exhibition with over 500,000 visitors, which has since been touring retail and office venues around the UK.
• Teesside Shopping Park for Norton Primary School Projects: climate change initiatives with teachers and children from local Norton Primary School, including a competition to design an environmental poster together with a bulb planting exercise.
• The Source at Meadowhall for Retail Preparation Courses: helping people from socio-economically deprived areas into jobs. Over 60 people participated in 2007, all of them attending interviews, with over 50% successfully gaining employment.

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Us and our suppliers

Embedding corporate responsibility within our business and throughout our supply chain

• Kathryn Bhola and Cherry Hall for Continuing Effort - Volunteering 2005-2007: Cherry and Kathryn have been helping children at Netley Primary School to improve their reading skills and build self-esteem for three years.
• Meadowhall Shopping Centre for Staff Training: all 370 Centre staff progress up a six month training ladder, followed by continuing professional development with opportunities for tailored training. 84% say they get a great deal of satisfaction out of the work they do.
• Lancaster Office Cleaning for Improving Recycling at Broadgate: working to keep contamination of the recyclable streams to a minimum and arranging ‘impromptu’ collections when clients have larger amounts of recyclables than usual.
• GBM Cleaning for Improving Waste Management at Regent's Place: helping to increase recycling and reduce waste to landfill, thanks to their enthusiasm, ‘no problem’ attitude, understanding of the waste management system and knowledge of the local area.
• Savills and Broadgate Estates for being Our Best Performing Property Managers 2007: for results in achieving our operational targets, supporting us and meeting our occupiers' needs.

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