Community Investment Plans

Our Community Investment Plans provide the framework to deliver a range of educational, employability and environmental projects designed to meet the needs of the local community.

The plans focus on the core objectives of helping young and disadvantaged people into employment, supporting the growth of local economies and delivering projects that enhance biodiversity and the local environment.

As part of our Responsible SEGRO framework, we are committed to creating and implementing bespoke programmes in all of our key markets by 2025. The initial plans cover major asset areas, including Slough, Greater London, the UK Midlands, and locations in France, Germany and Poland.

Over a ten-year period, SEGRO has set the target of achieving the following outcomes from the first round of community investment plans:

• 50,000 students to be engaged and inspired to fulfil their potential through our Work and STEM schools programme
• 15,000 people to benefit from skills, training and job brokerage programmes
• 300 initiatives delivered to improve the environment and health and wellbeing of the local

Our schools work programme is designed to work with schools and colleges to help prepare young people for the world of work through a range of interventions from in-school careers advice, competitions, site visits, mentoring and work experience.

Since its launch in 2022, the programme has engaged over 14,900 young people predominantly from diverse and deprived backgrounds in UK, Poland, Germany, and France.

In 2023, 7,943 students participated in over 180 activities as part of our education programme with over 5,500 students receiving careers advice and business insight talks from our employees, customers, and suppliers through a mix of in-school and online sessions. However, we have sought to enhance the experience and improve the knowledge of young people by encouraging more customers to host visits to their place of work, contractors to arrange construction site visits and increasing the numbers of mentors and work experience opportunities. 

In 2023, our customers and suppliers enabled 1,540 young people to visit their places of work to help them better understand the diversity of sectors and careers available to them.

Helping people from disadvantaged or marginalised backgrounds into employment or better paid jobs was a key focus of the community investment programme in 2023. Our employment partners understand the deep and often complex challenges unemployed people face when trying to get a job. Our funding helped to deliver our employability programme to over 1,300 people in the UK, Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, and France. Building on the foundations we put in place in 2022 and the approach to investing in employability programmes over the long term, we saw an 80 per cent increase
in the number of participants in the programme getting jobs.

Helping to improve the local environment to encourage biodiversity and support the health and wellbeing of
local people is important to us. In 2023, we delivered 35 environmental-focused projects from cleaning rivers to planting trees, revitalising community gardens to
enhancing nature reserves and creating outdoor learning spaces to renovating playgrounds for children with disabilities.

In 2023, we carried out an exercise to establish the biodiversity contribution that our developments make to the local area. Based on a small sample of sites (less than 1 per cent of our total portfolio), we concluded the following:

• 100 per cent of projects are subject to a Landscape and Biodiversity Management Plan, carried out to best practice standards, and applicable to at least the first five years, following completion.
• Accounting for actual biodiversity value changes across all area based habitats present, an overall
  8 per cent increase in the biodiversity metric, for area based habitats, was achieved.