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Community

CCURV is dedicated to making a significant commitment to improving the lives of people living and working in Croydon. This will be
achieved through the revitalisation of the town centre and district centres whilst maintaining their character and sense of community,
providing an improved environment for Croydon and its residents.

CCURV will make its contribution through:

• Working with Croydon Commitment
• Clearly specifying the terms for community engagement during the early stages of projects
• Clearly specifying the anticipated economic benefits for the community Croydon Commitment is a business-led and funded charitable organisation, which forges links with local charities and voluntary groups.

Croydon Commitment is a brokerage service designed to bridge the gap between the community’s needs and business activity. John Laing is a member of Croydon Commitment and theJohn Laing Charitable Trust has made a donation of £75,000 in 2009 / 2010 / 2011 towards Croydon Commitment’s endowment fund.

John Laing’s involvement makes the link between CCURV’s and Croydon Commitment’s activities.

Community engagement

CCURV ensures that local communities affected by its development projects are fully engaged during the pre-planning stages. For
example, during the pre-planning stage of the Waddon leisure and social housing project the CCURV team:

 

• Hosted consultation and feedback meetings and exhibitions in the community
• Attended local community group meetings
• Briefed Croydon Council ward councilors at monthly meetings

Economic benefits

In conjunction with the Croydon Economic Development Company a framework has been developed for all CCURV projects to spread the economic benefits to the local community by fulfilling the following targets:

• Target to employ 5% of the work force assembled to construct the BWH on training and development programmes
• Target to employ 10% of the work force through local recruitment
• Supporting work placements for young people at local schools and colleges
• Supporting the development of 16–19 yrs vocational diplomas
• Supporting career and professional development for staffCreating supply chain opportunities for local businesses
• Creating opportunities for third sector organisations to enter the supply chain

Local community will be a feature of all CCURV projects. Click here to view the SRM 6 monthly report on Community Commitments.