Schools Professionals Partners
The unique position of schools at the heart of the community make projects to transform school grounds a popular vehicle for CSR initiatives. Our projects are on public display day after day after day, creating an enduring sense of pride for everyone involved.

We have leveraged an additional £21m for schools and early-years settings to enhance their outside spaces through competitions, awards, grant programmes and exemplar projects delivered with a wide range of partners.

In return our educational marketing programmes have helped partners to target school children and their families.  We have also provided opportunities for thousands of corporate employees to get involved with their local schools.

Our national network of associates mean that we are able to deliver projects throughout the UK to reflect the interests of our supporters. Whilst some simply want to be seen to be enhancing the quality of childhood, others want to associate their brands with programmes focusing on specific issues, such as health or the environment.
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The following examples show our track record in building win:win partnerships between schools and business.
To explore how we can work with you, contact  jbutterworth@ltl.org.uk or call  01962 845559.

We enable employees to make a positive contribution to their community:
Every year hundreds of employees within the Royal Bank of Scotland Group work with their local primary school for an RBS Supergrounds Award - contributing almost 27,000 hours of their time on a range of activities and raising over £2million demonstrating their enthusiasm for outdoor learning and play.

We helped Ernst and Young add value to an existing community affairs programme - providing long-term investment in local schools.  Staff had built links with schools and with our support they built on this by creating physical improvements through school team challenges.

We help our partners reach school children and families:
We helped Tetra Pak demonstrate its commitment to the environment with their environmental education initiatives. Schools provided the engagement point for the campaign, but children continued activities at home engaging their families in a wildlife survey.  Resources included a sponsorship form, stickers, curriculum ideas, surveys, identification sheets and a Tetra Pak wildlife scooper!

Persil harnessed the potential of our National School Grounds Week to strengthen the profile of its ‘Dirt is Good’ campaign. Together we promoted a shared message to over 9,500 schools and early years settings that ‘dirt should be seen as evidence of a great experience and a natural part of growing, learning and developing’. 
Yorkshire Water called upon our skills in producing educational resources to deliver a social marketing campaign to address health and conservation.  A Million Green Fingers, a three-year campaign, reaching 100,000 children in 350 Yorkshire schools looking at food, nutrition and conservation by creating growing areas in school grounds.


We develop programmes to reflect our partners' business activities:
The financial services firm UBS Warburg joined forces with us to enhance children’s numeracy skills.  Open Up to Mathematics supported early years practitioners to develop and test ways the outdoor environment can develop children’s awareness of patterns and numbers. Ideas were shared within Hackney and nationally through an accessible publication

The public sector infrastructure company John Laing believes that the quality of our physical surrounds impacts on the way we feel about ourselves.  LTL embraced this shared ethos through the John Laing School Grounds Awards, winning Ministerial support and enhancing the quality of outdoor environments to benefit thousands of children in London.

Kraft Foods' community affairs programme focuses on children’s health. Get Moving encouraged children to make active play an enjoyable part of their daily lives and the Award winning multi partner Health4Schools programme engaged 28,000 pupils in Gloucestershire in food growing, learning about healthy eating and increasing physical play.

We deliver programmes to reflect the geographic interests of our partners:
  Exxon Mobil’s community affairs programme builds positive relationships with communities in Fawley, Fife and Aberdeenshire - the site of its refineries.   School communities are a key part of this and every year Heads Teachers choose LTL’s packages of training and support.  As a result we have helped Exxon Mobil sustain relationships with some of their link-schools for 14 years.

  LTL’s programme with BT, the BT Urban Challenge focused on greening the grounds in urban schools.  50 schools were involved over 3 years, many in London.  This led to another 3-year project and BT Grounds for the Future extended to schools across the UK.  By engaging the support of other partners we were able to ensure the provision of effective on-the-ground support to winning schools.

  LTL’s partnership with EDF Energy extended over 10 years. In the mid 1990s London Electricity sponsored an awards programme for London schools.  Over 4 years entries were received from every London borough and over 200 schools across the capital were supported to transform their grounds.  London Electricity was taken over by EDF who liked the programme and decided not only to retain it, but to extend it, presenting a wider geographic offering to reflect the company’s rapidly growing operations.