Local Community There are a number of ways in which we make positive contributions to our local community helping us to ensure that we are a good neighbour and resident within the Borough of Islington. · In 2006 we became a member of the Islington Climate Change Partnership run by Islington Council – working together to reduce the Borough of Islington’s carbon footprint by 15% by 2010 · Work with the Children’s Scrap Project which collects our usable waste and distributes it to local schools to use in their art projects · Donating furniture and materials to a local children’s charity, Toffee Park Adventure Playground, rather than skipping it. So far we have donated desks, chairs, paint and glassware, two Christmas trees from our Country Living Christmas Fair and numerous other items that are no longer wanted. Toffee Park is always greatly appreciative and recycles everything we give to them. They put great emphasis on recycling to the children at Toffee Park. We are also in the process of installing a new fully equipped kitchen for them. In addition to this, MA Associates Worldwide, one of our tenants based within the Business Design Centre, have very kindly donated two entire football kits to Toffee Park’s football teams · Business Design Centre invested in Ashcan, a unique portable cylinder-shaped ashtray to be distributed to staff, tenants and visitors. Identifying that the smoking ban would have a big effect on local environment, with cigarette litter set to dramatically increase, we wanted to encourage smokers to extinguish and dispose of their cigarettes in an environmentally friendly manner The Morris Charitable Trust The Morris Charitable Trust was established in 1989 to provide support for charitable causes. It was founded by the Morris Family who own the Business Design Centre Group. The Group includes the Business Design Centre, Upper Street Events, Citycentral Estates and City North Islington. The companies, all based in the Islington area, contribute a proportion of their annual profits to facilitate the Trust's charitable activities. The Trust is run by a board of Trustees who provide their services on a voluntary basis. The objective of the Trust is to promote charitable causes, in particular, to relieve the deprived, sick and aged and advance education for the public benefit. The Trust supports national and local community projects. Particular emphasis is placed on alleviating social hardship and deprivation and, because of the Morris Family's business location, supporting charitable causes within the community of the London Borough of Islington. Urban regeneration, health care, the elderly, education, and community uplifting causes are all examples of the general criteria that the Morris Charitable Trust looks for when considering applications. For further information please visit http://www.morrischaritabletrust.com/

Local Community

There are a number of ways in which we make positive contributions to our local community helping us to ensure that we are a good neighbour and resident within the Borough of Islington.

· In 2006 we became a member of the Islington Climate Change Partnership run by Islington Council – working together to reduce the Borough of Islington’s carbon footprint by 15% by 2010

· Work with the Children’s Scrap Project which collects our usable waste and distributes it to local schools to use in their art projects

· Donating furniture and materials to a local children’s charity, Toffee Park Adventure Playground, rather than skipping it. So far we have donated desks, chairs, paint and glassware, two Christmas trees from our Country Living Christmas Fair and numerous other items that are no longer wanted. Toffee Park is always greatly appreciative and recycles everything we give to them. They put great emphasis on recycling to the children at Toffee Park. We are also in the process of installing a new fully equipped kitchen for them. In addition to this, MA Associates Worldwide, one of our tenants based within the Business Design Centre, have very kindly donated two entire football kits to Toffee Park’s football teams

· Business Design Centre invested in Ashcan, a unique portable cylinder-shaped ashtray to be distributed to staff, tenants and visitors. Identifying that the smoking ban would have a big effect on local environment, with cigarette litter set to dramatically increase, we wanted to encourage smokers to extinguish and dispose of their cigarettes in an environmentally friendly manner

The Morris Charitable Trust

The Morris Charitable Trust was established in 1989 to provide support for charitable causes. It was founded by the Morris Family who own the Business Design Centre Group. The Group includes the Business Design Centre, Upper Street Events, Citycentral Estates and City North Islington. The companies, all based in the Islington area, contribute a proportion of their annual profits to facilitate the Trust's charitable activities. The Trust is run by a board of Trustees who provide their services on a voluntary basis.

The objective of the Trust is to promote charitable causes, in particular, to relieve the deprived, sick and aged and advance education for the public benefit. The Trust supports national and local community projects. Particular emphasis is placed on alleviating social hardship and deprivation and, because of the Morris Family's business location, supporting charitable causes within the community of the London Borough of Islington. Urban regeneration, health care, the elderly, education, and community uplifting causes are all examples of the general criteria that the Morris Charitable Trust looks for when considering applications.

For further information please visit http://www.morrischaritabletrust.com/

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