Creating positive social and economic impact We want to provide spaces where businesses can grow and also want to work with you to make a genuine social and economic impact to your local communities. • Over the next 12 months we are committed to making some of our currently unused arches across the country available to charities, and community organisations. We are also in discussions with various groups on how we can use some of our vacant arches to provide space for business start-ups. • We are setting up an Arch Company Social Fund to help support social and charitable initiatives that are important to you and your and local communities. We will also match charitable donations for causes supported by our employees. • Within the next few months, we will roll-out a programme of networking events and business development training sessions to support the growth of a dynamic and well-connected business community across the arches. We will invite speakers from the many industries represented by our diverse tenant mix. • We will set up an Environmental working group to establish best practice and improve environmental sustainability across the estate. • We will produce a new National Directory of Tenant Businesses with the aim of developing a strong network amongst our diverse range of tenants, The Arch Company and shareholder businesses. Participation will be at our tenants’ discretion. • We will keep local authorities updated on our activity, to see where we can work together to support local communities. More details on all of our Community Impact initiatives will be available on The Arch Company website.
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