Boost Charitable Trust

The activities of St Bride’s Managers and Boost Charitable Trust are inter-linked.

Robert Houston is the Founder and Chairman of the charity and much of the trust’s funding is derived from the profits of St Bride’s business activities and fund-raising events which are organised by St Bride’s partners and staff. The two organisations co-locate at 5 St Bride Street.

Boost is a grant-giving charity which supports sports programmes in the UK and Southern Africa. Its principal focus is on alleviating distress through sport in five areas - Physical and Learning Disabilities, Mental Health, Social Exclusion, Financial Hardship and Medical Research and Relief.

Since establishment in 2005, the charity has awarded over 700 grants across sixty-nine different sports.

Sarah Johnson - Trust Manager: E: sarah.johnson@boostct.org T: +44 (0)20 7078 1966

 

Environmental and Social Governance

St Bride’s Managers have committed to the following ESG Policy:

  1. We have a responsibility to conduct our investment business in a socially responsible way and it is our mission to be good citizens, wherever we may be.

  2. In our quest to be our investors’ favourite real estate managers, we recognise that in all probability our clients will have the same values as us. We therefore seek to deliver superior investment returns at the lowest possible cost to society and to the environment.

  3. We support the six Principles for Responsible Investment and have incorporated ESG issues into our investment analysis and decision-making processes. We will use our influence as landlords to encourage our tenants and suppliers to do the same.

  4. All our staff are engaged in ESG issues in the conduct of their day to day business activities and the principles of this policy are embedded in all our business activities.

  5. Responsibility for ensuring compliance with this policy rests with our Investment Committee and we have engaged the services of an ESG expert to act as an independent compliance officer and who sits on the Investment Committee.

  6. We wish to be outstanding communicators in all we do. We recognise the importance of setting targets for the management of ESG, for mitigating sustainability-related risks and for the exploitation of opportunities to add value. We set long term targets for key initiatives and monitor progress year on year.

  7. A section on sustainability is included in our formal annual reports to investors in our Partnerships.

  8. We recognise the importance of benchmarking the performance of our assets against other investment properties and the performance of partnerships under our management with other, comparable property investment funds. Sustainability benchmarking is a complex topic and there are, at present, a large number of independent benchmarks available. We liaise with our investors to identify the ones which are is most suitable for their purposes.