Playing our part

At the heart of all organisations are its people, achieving its vision, living its values and providing creativity, determination and tenacity. A variety of different approaches tailored to our individual operating companies are used to support, train and develop our people to maximise both job performance and job satisfaction.

However the role of our employees goes far beyond the commercial success of Peel and we are delighted with the role they play in our partnership activities with community organisations, the time they devote through activity such as becoming school governors, sitting on partnership boards, and giving their time freely to support and mentor local organisations in the areas where they live and work.

Volunteering activity is widespread across the Peel Group, recent examples including:

:• Each year for the past 4 years a team of runners from Peel Management Services have run the Manchester 10k to raise money for charity. Participants have steadily increased from single figures to an impressive team of 27 this year.

• Annually Peel Group offices also participate in the Wear It Pink day for Breast Cancer awareness, as well as a activity for Red Nose day and Comic Relief.

• The Trafford Centre acts as a hub of activity for the full spectrum of charitable activity from Comic Relief through to environment day and a range of local causes.

• The firefighters at Peel Airports Group undertake a substantial amount of volunteering in their own time, most recently a team of firefighters from Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield produced their own version of ‘Calendar Girls’ raising over £8.000 for charity.

We are also looking to better establish health and wellbeing information for our people, further promote topics such as volunteering and community engagement, and improve our communication processes including an improved intranet site, as we seek to maintain and improve our reputation as an excellent employer.