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PROJECTS IN SOUTH LEEDS SUPPORTED BY THE ARISE INITIATIVE

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DAVID ASPIN, The Chief Townsley, Bob Evans and Richard Mansell - four
Marys sterling fund raising Executive of Munroe K and highly-respected individuals whose diligence,
member of the ARISE expertise, local knowledge and collective desire to
Board, has supported the make south Leeds a better place, have been the
Year of volunteering initiative ever since its cornerstone of this excellent enterprise.
inception. Here he talks Then, of course, there are countless community-
about the latest milestone minded volunteers in groups and organisations
ARISE Scoops CSR Award reached on a journey that serving people of all ages and with diverse needs
began in 2005. through voluntary action. Their efforts are often
When the awards selection committee decided to unseen, often unsung, but vital to creating a cohesive
Photography workshops in give 800 to Eduplay to buy new equipment for its society.
fabulous, Funky Fun Bus, they probably did not realise The tireless work, energy and enthusiasm seen in
that this decision took the total amount of money a broad spectrum of activity is what makes south
the picture
funded by the initiative over the 100,000 Leeds tick and I consider it a privilege to be able to
thresh-hold. support them through ARISE. These are our
In the last issue of our neighbours, our customers and the area in which

Awarm
newsletter we were celebrating many of the employees of our tenants live.
our 100th award since ARISE For our own staff, it is enriching

welcome to
was launched in September to know that we are part of a
2005 and since then we have community with so much good going

James Pitt
had a remarkable journey. on and I was delighted that my
ARISE is not really about colleague Hayley Parker, pictured
money and statistics. At its below with Sonjia Pollard of EduPlay
heart is people - beginning and Chris Townsley of the ARISE
James Pitt has joined
with the people on our Awards Selection Committee was
the ARISE Board -
committee: Sue Cassidy, Chris (continued inside)
More about James on
the back page.

Farewell to David
David Helliwell, has stepped down from
ARISE Board.
David, who is senior consultant to the
Investment Partnership for South Leeds
(IPSL) having left Evans Property Group in
2007, said: With my increasing workload on
the IPSL I thought now was the appropriate
time to bid my farewell.
ARISE is a fine initiative and I am proud
to have been associated with it. I wish all
involved continuing success.
Gerald Jennings, Chair of the
ARISE Board, said: I
would like to thank
David for his sterling
work. Im sure that
James Pitt
Development
Director for Evans
(pictured above) who
is joining the board
will continue where
he left off.

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Year of volunteering Supporting diverse activities

ARISE SUPPORTS
many different voluntary
organisations all over south
Leeds and everyone involved
in the Initiative is well aware
of how necessary volunteer
helpers and fund raisers are
in keeping many of these
going.
With the launch earlier
this year of the Leeds Year of
Volunteering, Deputy Council Leader Richard Brett
explains why support for voluntary organisations is so
important.
Cllr Brett (pictured above) says: I applaud the work
that Land Securities, Evans Property and Munroe K
and the ARISE Selection Committee have been doing
by providing vital funding to organisations in south
Leeds.
There are many ways in which business can
support the community, either through finance or by
providing people who volunteer their time.
Volunteering is vital to the future of our City and
helps us to connect with friends, neighbours and
communities. There is also a considerable economic
benefit - the annual value of volunteering in Leeds has
IN THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS, the ARISE replace a picnic bench in Springfield Mill Park which
selection committee has made awards to a wide range had been widely used by a lot of people before being
of organisations and groups in the areas that make up destroyed by vandals.
south Leeds. From funding for a polytunnel which benefited
From money to help a group of guides both John OGaunts In Bloom and Rothwell In Bloom
go on what was, for many of them, their because it meant they could save costs by growing
first trip to London to a grant to pay their own plants for their award winning displays
for a second-hand wicket mower which have gone a long way to raise
for a junior cricket team. the sense of local pride in their
communities, to a grant for
the Morley Camping
Venture for a
camping trip
From an
exercise
class for
Kashmiri
women which
not only helps them away for young people, many of whom had never
to stave off health problems been away from home before.
common to their community but These are the sort of groups and organisations,
also gives them a chance to make usually run by volunteers who give their spare time
friends and avoid loneliness, to money to freely, to enrich their communities.

Standard bearers
been estimated to be worth 39.5 million.
The aims of the year are to increase the level of
volunteering in the city, to help groups attract more
volunteers and to provide individuals with more high-
quality volunteering opportunities. Leeds City
Council is working in partnership with Voluntary MIDDLETON PRIMARY SCHOOL was one of the first schools in Leeds to
Action Leeds, VOICE and the Leeds Community achieve the Stephen Lawrence Standard, to raise awareness and ensure racial
Foundation to make sure that we have a sustainable equality across all levels of school life, when the programme was piloted in Leeds.
increase in the level of volunteering beyond 2010. With support from ARISE, the school arranged visits and welcomed visitors so
During the year you will be able to join in one that the predominantly white British pupils could gain an understanding of the
of the many events, get involved with one of the cultural diversity of modern life.
monthly themes that will celebrate different types of Ed Balls, pictured above right, Secretary of State for Children and Families, has
volunteering, or apply for funding from the new now extended the standard across all schools in England following the success in
grants scheme. There will also be a celebratory Leeds.
volunteer awards programme in December. Samantha Williams, head teacher of
We have already launched theYear of Volunteering Middleton Primary said: Since the
with an event at Leeds City Museum on 13th January, scheme was adopted hundreds of
attended by over 450 people. The new Volunteer children have benefited from learning
Centre Leeds is now open - you can visit it at about other religions and cultures,
Enterprise House, 12 St Pauls Street, Leeds LS1 2LE
and as one of the teachers
or phone 0113 395 0405.
responsible for helping the
The website www.leedsyearofvolunteering.org.uk
school achieve the standard,
I am very proud that we
were one of the
first schools in
Leeds to do
that, with the
help of
ARISE.

Pictured: pupils
from Middleton
Primary School.

will provide you with updated information.

Will 2010 be the end to this? The answer is no, as
we will participate in 2011 in the EuropeanYear of the
Volunteer. In 2012 there are the Olympic Games with
all the opportunities for volunteering that this entails.
We want to put Leeds at the forefront of
volunteering activity and to sustain this into the
future, for all our sakes.

Initiative wins CSR Award
THE ARISE INITIATIVE won
plaudits and an award at the Variety
ClubYorkshire Property Awards.
The Corporate Social
Responsibility Award for 2009 was
presented to Chair of the ARISE
board, Gerald Jennings, during the
annual awards dinner, held at Rudding
House, Harrogate.
After accepting the award on
behalf of ARISE, Gerald, said: We are
delighted that the initiative is having
such a positive impact by giving a
Photography workshops in the picture
HELPING RESIDENTS of Beeston and Holbeck
to appreciate the art that is available to them free of
charge in galleries and museums around their area is
one of the main objectives of Pavilion Art Gallery
based in Saw Mill Yard, Round Foundry in Holbeck.
They applied to ARISE for help in funding their
plans in taking this a step further by offering artist-led
photography workshops which will not only help local
young people to learn how to use digital photography
Giving teenagers a chance
IT IS YVONNE CROWTHERS BELIEF that
every teenager deserves to be given a chance.
This is why she has spent the last nine years on an
unpaid mission to set up and run the Cardinal Youth
Club in Beeston with the help of a small group
of dedicated volunteers who share her belief.
Yvonne (pictured right) began her mission when
she asked a group of teenagers hanging around the
streets near her home why they werent doing
something else and was told that they had nowhere to
go and nothing to do.
They were just hanging around and
although they werent doing anything wrong,
a lot of the older people who lived in the area
felt intimidated by them so I decided to ask
around and see if there was anything that
could be done to give them somewhere to
go. Yvonne, pictured right, said. When
I approached the council, I was told that the
former rent office on Cardinal Crescent was
no longer being used and that I could have it to
use for a youth club if I could get things
together so it started
from there.
Over the past nine
years,Yvonne has devel-
oped the youth club to
be a safe place to go for
more than 100 young
people aged between 8 and the early 20s
and has equipped it with furniture, games
equipment and computers by tireless fund
raising and a lot of generosity from people in
the community. But she is always thinking of
how to improve things and move on.
helping hand to groups and organisations that put
so much time and energy into making
south Leeds a better place to live.
He added: I would like to thank
my fellow sponsors Evans and
Munroe K for making ARISE
possible and we are indebted to the
work of the independent ARISE
Awards Selection Committee of Sue
Cassidy, Councillor Chris Townsley,
Richard Mansell and Bob Evans, who
ensure that the funds are distributed
fairly.
but to also learn to appreciate their area in an artistic
sense.
Gillian Howard, director of Pavilion said:
Holbeck UrbanVillage is a fascinating part of the city
and we want people to not only be able to develop
their photography and computer skills in an artistic
way but to appreciate the community they live in too.
The funding we received from ARISE means that we
can carry on with our work and we are very grateful.
I approached ARISE because I really want to
set up a chill out room where the kids can either
go to do their homework or just get a bit of peace
and quiet or simply some space for themselves
which is sometimes in very short supply in their
lives outside, she said.
The kids were absolutely thrilled when we were
granted the money and we are getting together the
furniture and equipment for it and deciding what
colour to paint it - all very exciting.Without ARISE
it would have taken us a long time to collect this
sort of money because there is always something
that needs replacing, so we are really, really
grateful for it and I would like to say a big
thank you to everyone involved in the
fantastic work that ARISE is doing in
south Leeds.
ARISE IN ACTION
(continued from page one) ...able to meet with
parents and children to find out more about one
of the very worthwhile projects that ARISE is
supporting.
Finally, Id like to mention the people at Land
Securities and Evans.
Both are companies whose work on huge
regeneration projects can lift whole towns and
cities and make them special places. At White
Rose Office Park, we too have made
improvements in terms of new buildings and
environmental enhancement.
Like our fellow co-funders, we are proud to
be part of south Leeds and we hope that in its
quiet, yet effective way, ARISE is making life
a little better for all of us.
Marys a marvel
MRS MARY SCARGILL has been connected
to St Peters Church, Churwell Hill, Morley for
nearly all her life.
She was baptised at the church and married
there too, and although married life took her
away from the parish for a while, for the past ten
years she has been a staunch member of the
community as well as one of the major fund
raisers before taking the recent decision to retire
due to ill health.
The church hall is also very important to her,
and to many groups of people of all ages and
denominations who benefit from using it, and a
large proportion of the 20-30,000 she has
helped to raise has gone to help bring the hall up
to the standard required for modern life, as well
as undertake vital repairs.
I have always believed that if you live in a
community, you should give back to it.The hall is
used by so many different groups of people in the
area who rely on it, but it is an old building which
costs a lot of money to modernise and
repair and it is getting harder to
raise the sort of money we
need, said Mary.
We have been lucky
enough to get two grants
from ARISE in the past few
years and they have made all
the difference to us so I
would like to say
Thank you very
much to
everyone
involved
with
ARISE.
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Meet the Selection Committee
From left to right: Councillor Chris Townsley, Richard Mansell, Bob Evans and Sue Cassidy.
What ARISE means to me...
THE FOUR MEMBERS of the ARISE
Selection Committee all lead very busy
professional lives, but they give up their time on
a regular basis to choose the organisations which
will receive ARISE funding.
Here they each explain what ARISE means to
them and why they are happy to support it.
Sue Cassidy
Chair of the Committee
ARISE is a simple compelling concept which
supports and enables those who live and work in
the special communities in south Leeds.
The process for applying for the grants is
uncomplicated and easy to use and this makes it
accessible to smaller groups and organisations
who might otherwise find long and involved
application procedures
intimidating.
As Chair of the
Selection Committee, I
have the opportunity to
work with very knowl-
edgeable colleagues with
a broad range of experi-
ences and backgrounds and this, along with
the view the applications give us of the day to day
lives of hundreds of people, has greatly
developed my understanding of life in the
communities of south Leeds.
In the almost five years that ARISE has been in
existence, we have been able to help many
communities, judging each application on its
merits and I am honoured to have been offered
a chance to be part of this special opportunity to
give something back.
Richard Mansell
With a background in senior management,
the calls upon my time have grown considerably
over the years and it has become increasingly
difficult to balance my core executive duties with
extraneous activities.
I am however involved in a number of
charitable projects,ARISE being one of them and
I particularly enjoy the balance that ARISE offers,
from working with the three south Leeds based
corporate benefactors through to the Selection
Committee, of which I am a member.
Each request for funding is considered on its
merits and I never fail to be impressed not only
by the knowledge of fellow panellists but also by
the innovation and resolve of some of the
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Meet the Board
From left to right: Gerald Jennings, David Aspin and James Pitt.
individuals, communities and organisations that
bid for funding.
The sheer diversity by age, gender, faith and
ethnicity of the individuals and groups that
approach ARISE for funding truly demonstrate
the reach that ARISE achieves.
As a former chairman of the Leeds Local
Enterprise Growth Initiative (LEGI) I am
particularly pleased with the number of social
enterprises that ARISE have been able to help
move forward towards self-sufficiency.
Chris Townsley
During my year as Lord Mayor of Leeds, I was
amazed to discover the number of charitable
organisations and self help groups who depend
on additional funding to continue their
wonderful work, and
how hard it can be to
find that funding, so I
was delighted to accept
the invitation to join
ARISE and become a
member of the Selection
Committee when my
civic duties ended.
Businesses who are happy to take an interest
in putting something back into the south Leeds
communities where they are based, is something
I can relate to and the funding which is made
available can make an incredible difference to the
lives of many who live, work or relax in those
districts.
Over the past four and a half years, ARISE has
helped a wide variety of organisations and
charitable groups, all wanting to improve life
in south Leeds and I look forward to continuing
to be a part of the Selection Committee and
carrying on our work in 2010 and beyond.
Bob Evans
Which one word would I use to sum up why
I support ARISE? Genuine.
The people who started and who fund ARISE
are honest, selfless, genuine people.
The selection panel are honest, selfless and
genuine people and the causes that ARISE
supports are genuine and community minded.
I genuinely believe that ARISE makes
a difference and for that reason I am proud to be
associated with it.
The evidence is there for all to see.
James joins the board
JAMES PITT (above right) is the Development
Director for Evans Property Group, overseeing the
delivery of a development land bank with an end value
of about 1.5 billion. He is responsible for growing the
long-term development programme by identifying
high quality opportunities, both direct and in joint
venture partnerships.
Prior to joining Evans in January 2009, James was
Regional Development Director based in London for
property group Goodman, where he was responsible
for office and business space development in the North
and Midlands including schemes in Manchester, Leeds,
Sunderland and Leicester. He was also involved in
establishing a 1.5 million square foot, mixed-use
development in Birminghams Eastside Regeneration in
a joint venture with Birmingham Council.
James graduated in 1991 with an Honours degree in
Land Management. Hes Member of the Royal
Institution of Chartered Surveyors and has worked in
Leeds for over 12 years for Jones Lang LaSalle and
CBRE.
The ARISE Companies
Land Securities Group PLC
The groups objective is to create long-term and
sustainable returns for shareholders through its
commercial property investment and development
activities.
Land Securities is a FTSE 100 company,
committed to environmental initiatives and
community involvement. This has been recognised by
the inclusion within the FTSE 4 Good Index and Dow
Jones Sustainability Index.
Munroe K Ltd
is a private property development and investment
company owned by David Aspin, formerly Chief
Executive of Arlington Retail Developments and
a main board director of Stakis plc (now part of
Hilton).
The company, formed in 1995 to acquire a 105m
portfolio of mixed properties from BAE, has
completed a number of major developments including
White Rose Office Park in south Leeds.
Evans Property Group
is one of the largest privately-owned groups of
companies in the north of England. The group, which
has its offices in south Leeds, has been active in the
property market for over 70 years and has interests
throughout the UK.
The group specialises in major regeneration
projects, and is working with the relevant public
authorities, communities and joint venture partners to
bring about large-scale redevelopment and sustainable
regeneration.