The Paddington Partnership

Bluebeam pushes the boundaries of innovation, developing smart, simple markup and collaboration solutions for design and construction professionals worldwide. Since 2002, Bluebeam has made desktop, mobile and cloud-based solutions for paperless workflows that leverage project data to improve project communication and streamline processes across the entire project lifecycle. Trusted by over 2 million individuals in more than 135 countries, Bluebeam's solutions advance the way technical professionals work, manage and collaborate on projects. Founded in Pasadena, CA, Bluebeam now has additional offices in California, Texas, Illinois, Germany, England, Sweden and Australia. Bluebeam is part of the Nemetschek Group.

British Land is one of Europe's largest publicly listed real estate companies. It owns, manages, develops and finances a portfolio of high-quality commercial property around the UK, including the majority of the Paddington Central estate. The company's objective is to deliver long-term and sustainable total returns to shareholders. It does this by focusing on Places People Prefer. British Land aims to create outstanding places which make a positive difference to people's everyday lives.

Brockton Everlast was established in 2018 as the fourth vehicle of the Brockton team with a sole focus on owning, developing and asset managing large scale, premier workplaces across central London and its wider metro area. Brockton Everlast has over £355m of initial equity commitments, towards an equity target of £1.0bn. The Brockton team has raised over £1.85bn of equity over the past 12 years. Since the beginning of 2019, Brockton Everlast has also acquired 169 Union Street in Bankside, Devonshire Quarter on the Spitalfields / City border and Waterside House in Paddington, the Global Headquarters of Marks & Spencer.

Brunel Building, owned by Derwent London, completed development in 2019. The building’s innovative design includes a striking external diagrid structure that was inspired by Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Great Western Railway viaducts and has made the building a landmark in Paddington. Occupiers include Premier League, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Splunk, Dojo, Tapestry / Coach Stores Limited, Alpha FX Group and Hellman & Freidman. Derwent London have subscribed to the Community Programme on behalf of the building’s occupiers, enabling all to volunteer in the Paddington community and access the associated wellbeing benefits.

CC Land own One Kingdom Street in Paddington, providing 265,000 sq ft of Grade A offices to companies such as Vodafone and Equinor. They also own The Leadenhall Building in the City.

CC Land’s core business is property development and investment.

Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company focused on therapies for the management of chronic conditions, leading in advanced wound care, stoma care, continence and critical care, and infusion devices. The company's forever caring promise is a commitment made to customers and those they serve every day. It’s also a promise to the communities in which they company operates. Convatec's approach is to support communities on issues that closely align with the business's vision and values, and where the majority of their people and impact is made.

Derwent London is a commercial property investor focused on central London. Having spearheaded the redevelopment of Two Eastbourne Terrace in Paddington, which completed in 2007, Derwent London moved on to produce the stunning Brunel Building twelve years later. This award-winning building is now a Paddington landmark and the offices were fully pre-let prior to practical completion.

Dojo develop intuitive tools that simplify the everyday – and take the hassle out of running a business. Dojo offer a wide selection of merchant services, helping customers accept card payments, trade securely and get paid fast.

For almost 200 years, Dun & Bradstreet has helped clients and partners grow and thrive through the power of data, analytics, and data-driven solutions. Their more than 6,000 employees around the world are dedicated to this unique purpose, and Dun & Bradstreet are guided by important values that make them the established leader in business decisioning data and analytical insights.

Equinor (U.K) Limited - formerly Statoil - is one of the largest international offices of Equinor, and employs approximately 250 staff pursuing a broad range of activities relating to energy production and sales in Britain. Equinor produces oil and gas and conducts exploration & development activities on the UK continental shelf. The Equinor team at Paddington sponsor and support a range of activities within schools and charities through The Paddington Partnership, including a long running maths breakfast club.

European Land and Property is the developer behind the well-known Paddington Basin scheme. Phase 1 is completed and occupied, now home to names such as Orange and Marks & Spencer. Phase 2 sees the creation of the stunning Merchant Square, the final piece in the Paddington Basin redevelopment, including the tallest building in Westminster, 1 Merchant Square.

Expereo is the intelligent internet company that connects people, places and things anywhere. With an extensive global reach, Expereo is the trusted partner of 60% of Fortune 500 companies, powering enterprise and government sites in more than 190 countries. Expereo is committed to creating a brighter future for the world we live in and the people we share it with.

Finastra serves over 8,000 financial institutions, providing the broadest, deepest software applications and connectivity to marketplaces, partners and fintechs through their open platform, orchestrating the future of financial services.

Gloat's Agile Workforce Operating system translates the world of work into the language of skills to give companies unprecedented ability to navigate change, enable more fulfilling and equitable careers for their employees, and dismantle the silos, bureaucracy, and biases that hold people and businesses back. At Gloat we're all about putting people and organizations in motion. Volunteering in our local communities is one way we're able to amplify that impact. We're grateful to The Paddington Partnership for helping to facilitate our efforts.

GoBoat enables groups to hire electric boats and be their own captain, enjoying London's sites and nature by water. The Paddington Partnership collaborates with GoBoat to offer volunteering opportunities for teams to get out along Regent's Canal and remove litter from areas that would be difficult to reach by land.

Founded in 1984, Hellman & Friedman (H&F) is one of the oldest and most experienced private equity investment firms operating today. H&F is well respected for their distinctive investment philosophy and focused approach targeting large-scale equity investments in companies in select sectors. H&F has offices in San Francisco, New York and Paddington, London.

The Heathrow Express service between Paddington Station and the airport began in June 1998. Taking just fifteen minutes, there are over 150 services running between Heathrow and Paddington every day. Each year Heathrow Express travels the equivalent of almost four times the distance to the moon and has already run its millionth mile. Based in Paddington, the Heathrow Express team participate in regular fundraising events, volunteer in local schools and support local charities.

The world famous St. Mary's Hospital is located in the heart of Paddington and provides a wide range of general and specialist services alongside world class research at Imperial College. The hospital is part of the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, formed in 2007. The Trust, the largest in England, is the first Academic Health Sciences Centre in the UK and encourages closer links between service and research to improve care to patients.

IQVIA is a human data sciences company and leading global provider of advanced analytics, technology solutions, and clinical research services to the life sciences industry. IQVIA creates intelligent connections across all aspects of healthcare through its analytics, transformative technology, big data resources and extensive domain expertise. IQVIA Connected Intelligence™ delivers powerful insights with speed and agility — enabling customers to accelerate the clinical development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments that improve healthcare outcomes for patients. With approximately 82,000 employees, IQVIA conducts operations in more than 100 countries.

Kingfisher is Europe's leading home improvement retail group and the third largest in the world, with leading market positions in the UK, France, Poland, Italy, China and Taiwan. Kingfisher operates over 750 stores in 10 countries in Europe and Asia. Its main retail brands are B&Q, Castorama, Brico Dépôt and Screwfix Direct. At Paddington Kingfisher works to help meet local community needs through The Paddington Partnership.

Lendlease is a globally integrated real estate and investment group with core expertise in shaping cities and creating strong and connected communities.
Lendlease creates award-winning urban precincts, new communities for older people and young families, retail precincts, and work places to the highest sustainability standards. Lendlease is also privileged to create essential civic and social infrastructure including state-of-the-art hospitals, universities and stadiums around the world. With HQs in Sydney, Lendlease has a long & successful record in the UK specialising in project management & construction and providing services to the government.

Leading British retailer Marks & Spencer are based in Waterside House at Paddington Basin. Through the Paddington Partnership Community Programme, Head Office colleagues from Marks & Spencer take part in individual volunteering activities, team challenges and long-term roles; supporting community groups and charities in the Paddington Community.

Microsoft occupy floors 7 and 8 at 2 Kingdom Street, in the heart of the Paddington Central campus. Microsoft’s CSR agenda is focused on the role of technology to help humanity and the planet, and employees are given the opportunity to regularly volunteer at work. Microsoft have taken part in canal clean-ups with The Paddington Partnership; enabling their staff to get out in the fresh air and work as a team to reduce plastic pollution on the canal, whilst experiencing Paddington from the water.

Paddington Square is a new working, shopping and dining quarter, seamlessly connected to Paddington Station. A development by Sellar on behalf of Great Western Developments Ltd, Paddington Square will host workspaces, over 40 shops and restaurants, and a public piazza featuring vibrant art installations, trees and a living wall.

Perella Weinberg Partners is a leading global independent investment banking firm with offices in New York, London, Houston, Calgary, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Munich, Paris and San Francisco. PWP’s London offices are located in the Borough of the City of Westminster where, working with the Paddington Partnership’s Community Programme, colleagues further their community engagement through volunteering activities with a focus on education and equality.

The Premier League is the organising body of the Premier League with responsibility for the competition, its Rule Book and the centralised broadcast and other commercial rights. The Premier League works proactively and constructively with their Member Clubs and the other football authorities to improve the quality of football, both in England and across the world.

Sellar is delivering some of the most ambitious regeneration projects in London, including the Paddington Square project. Designed by Renzo Piano, Paddington Square’s centrepiece is a landmark mixed-use building, hovering 17 storeys above 1.35 acres of brand-new public realm. Visitors will exit Paddington Station to a mix of shops, cafes, restaurants and bars, and an inviting piazza. Paddington Square will feature 360,000 square feet of spacious, light-filled office space with views across London and 78,000 square feet of retail space. The transformation continues below ground, with a spacious new ticket hall for the Bakerloo Line, step-free access to all levels along with doubled escalator capacity, ensuring a quicker and more comfortable journey for all passengers.

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation. SPE's global operations encompass motion picture production, acquisition, and distribution; television production, acquisition, and distribution; television networks; digital content creation and distribution; operation of studio facilities; and development of new entertainment products, services and technologies.

Splunk was founded in 2003 to solve problems in complex digital infrastructures. Splunk has evolved a lot in the last 20 years as digital has taken center stage and the types and number of disruptions have simultaneously escalated. With over 1,100 patents and a culture of innovation, Splunk has stayed one step ahead of their customers’ needs.

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited is headquartered in Japan and is a global, values-based, R&D-driven biopharmaceutical leader. Takeda focuses its R&D efforts on four therapeutic areas: Oncology, Gastroenterology (GI), Neuroscience and Rare Diseases. Our employees are committed to improving quality of life for patients.

Tapestry unites the magic of Coach, Kate Spade New York, and Stuart Weitzman. Tapestry
builds on their world-class capabilities, delivers boldly on their corporate responsibility goals, and leverages their strengths, from financial power to digital expertise.

Tishman Speyer is one of the leading owners, developers, operators and fund managers of real estate throughout the world. Driven by business principles founded on a respect for humanity, the community and the environment, the firm collaborates across disciplines and borders to create real estate of enduring value, such as The Point in Paddington.

Ventient Energy’s vision is to generate renewable energy to secure the future of the people and the planet, which motivates us to do everything we can to maximise the world’s cleanest energy sources, integrating diverse expertise and technologies to lead the energy transition, while caring for those who invest their future in our vision. The Paddington Community Programme provides an excellent opportunity for the team in London to come together and get involved in local regeneration initiatives, working with and for the benefit of the local community, the Ventient Way.

Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation to create transformative medicines for people with serious diseases. The company has multiple approved medicines that treat the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis, alongside a robust pipeline of investigational small molecule medicines in other serious diseases. Vertex's global headquarters are located in Boston USA, with its international headquarters here in Paddington.

Virgin want to offer their colleagues regular and local volunteering opportunities, in line with the Virgin purpose of "changing business for good". The Paddington Partnership facilitates this for Virgin, offering flexible and highly engaging options with pre-vetted partners within easy reach of their office.

As a leader in card payments around the world, Visa Europe employs a multi-national workforce and receives visitors from around the world. The fast connections to Heathrow were a major factor in their decision to move to Paddington. As a founding member of The Paddington Partnership, Visa Europe plays an active role in the local community, with an extensive employee volunteering programme.

Vodafone moved their Head Office to Paddington in 2009. The Vodafone Foundation makes a charitable donation to The Paddington Partnership's community programme to facilitate company volunteering and corporate community involvement by Vodafone staff in and around Paddington.

Wallacea Living offer luxury independent living for later life, with a focus on wellbeing and community. Their luxury residence on Edgware Road will open in January 2026.

WeWork was founded in 2010 with the vision to create environments where people and companies come together and do their best work. Since opening their first location in New York City, WeWork have grown into a global workplace provider committed to delivering flexible solutions, inspiring, safety-focused spaces and unmatched community experiences.