Paddington Community Walk for ESG Leads
Since 2023, Grand Union BID has been working in partnership with Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust to deliver a programme of regular community walks for staff based at St Mary’s Hospital. The walks introduce employees to charities and schools working in the local area and identify opportunities for collaboration.
Following their popularity and success, we are excited to launch a new series of community walks, for ESG Leads from our BID members and those employees with particular interest in community projects.
We are aware that very often we take employees to volunteer in these spaces, but that the individuals driving corporate volunteer programmes and social value initiatives don’t get as many opportunities to see them. We hope that this programme of walks can help to address that.
On Thursday 23 October, we are delighted to be visiting The Exchange at Ernest Harris House – a beautifully designed community hub and home to North Paddington Foodbank. North Paddington Foodbank is the UK’s first and only cash-first foodbank, providing clients with supermarket vouchers and grants as opposed to traditional food parcels. This approach gives people dignity and choice over their food purchases and the building provides a valuable, warm and welcoming community space for residents to access advice, support, classes and workshops from a range of agencies and providers. It’s an innovative and inspiring model and we really hope you can join us to hear about it.
Event details
We will meet at 11am at the Starbucks by Paddington Central. The walk and tour will include a short ride on the number 18 bus, a journey time of about 10 minutes. The event will last two hours, from 11am – 1pm.
All are very welcome to stay and enjoy lunch at The Exchange at 1pm. We hope that this informal lunch will provide valuable, informal networking time with each other and an opportunity to really witness the work of The Exchange in action.
Please reply below to book your space and let us know if you would also like to join for the lunch, along with any dietary requirements we should be aware of.