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Assessing Our Contribution FORT KINNAIRD: A REVIEW
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For shoppers, cinema-goers Fort Kinnaird offers a great
and retailers, Fort Kinnaird is shopping, dining and leisure
a place with customers and experience, just off the A1
community at its heart. in Edinburgh. Providing 2,000 Jobs
In my time here, I’ve witnessed It is home to some of the best directly at Fort Kinnaird
Fort Kinnaird become the lifestyle known brands in the UK such as
destination it is today. Along with Primark, Boots, Pizza Express
our partners, we have introduced and Odeon Cinema.
important training opportunities
such as our Recruitment & Skills
The centre is well connected for staff
and visitors, and provides a great
3,200+ People
Centre, which is now an integral place for people to come together.
helped into work since 2013 through
part of Fort Kinnaird and the local the on-site Recruitment & Skills
We’re delighted to publish this
community.
review exploring our social, Centre, working with local partners
I’m always so proud to assist the economic and environmental
retailers of the future, to develop contributions, informed by a
their skills and support them in study carried out by independent
their chosen career path. economics consultancy, Regeneris. £53m Contribution
to Edinburgh’s economy annually,
Liam Smith Gross Value Added (GVA)
Centre Director at Fort Kinnaird
4 • FORT KINNAIRD: OUR HISTORY FORT KINNAIRD: A REVIEW • 5
Fort Kinnaird: As partners in the community, we are
committed to ensuring Fort Kinnaird is
2018
Our History
a great place to be. From 2014-2017,
we invested over £17m in improvements Flagship Schuh and
and are continuing to work to update Schuh Kids opens
and develop our centre. Refit of new Currys PC
World store, including
digital screen façade,
becoming the region’s
2005 flagship store
2014
British Land Opening of new
begins managing Glasgow hosts the 2016 stores including:
Fort Kinnaird • Wagamama
Commonwealth Games
Oak Furniture Land • Pure Gym
Opening of new opens new store • TAPI Carpets
stores including: • Office
• Pizza Express Claire’s Accessories
Refurbishment
1989 • Caffè Nero receives a refit
of shop fronts for:
• Ed’s Easy Diner
• Carphone Warehouse
Centre opens to public • TGI Fridays
• Vision Express
• TK Maxx
• Beaverbrooks
• Frankie & Benny’s
• Perfume Shop
1989
2004 2015 2017
Leisure extension Flagship JD Sports
The Scottish
completed, featuring: opens alongside:
Parliament building
• Primark • Wilko
at Holyrood opens 2013 • Specsavers • Starbucks
• Nando’s • Waterstones
Recruitment & Skills • Five Guys
Centre opens its doors Refit of shops including:
• 7 screen Odeon Cinema
for the first time • The Perfume Shop
• Vision Express
Andy Murray wins Wimbledon • Pizza Hut
KEY TO TIMELINE
UK-wide Fort Kinnaird
6 • S U P P O R T I N G J O B S A N D T H E E C O N O M Y AT F O R T K I N N A I R D FORT KINNAIRD: A REVIEW • 7
Supporting Jobs and the
Economy at Fort Kinnaird Almost 1 in 5 jobs in the UK are in retail
Recognising the important role retail
plays in people’s careers and employability,
£53m
British Land introduced its Bright Lights skills
Providing and employment programme at Fort Kinnaird,
helping people of all ages to develop their
2,000 jobs potential and grow through apprenticeships,
work experience, graduate schemes and more.
directly at Fort Kinnaird
£53 million contribution
to Edinburgh’s economy each year, Gross
28 apprentices Value Added (GVA), with contributions across
Scotland of £91 million
learning whilst earning
at Fort Kinnaird in 2017,
developing their skills The retail
for the future £7.2 million
business rates
were paid by Fort Kinnaird
sector
accounts
1 retail job in 20 to the City of Edinburgh
and 1 job in every 200 in Council in 2017, equalling
Edinburgh is supported 2% of their total business
by Fort Kinnaird rates collected
for 1/3 The Recruitment & Skills Centre (RSC)
of UK
works alongside local partners at
100% Bright Fort Kinnaird to support employers’
1p in every £3
Lights success recruitment and staff development
1p
in Edinburgh’s economy is
turnover
all 12 participants on needs, and to help jobseekers gain
generated by Fort Kinnaird,
the 2017 Bright Lights employment. Since 2013, the RSC
equating to 1p in every £25
Starting Out in Retail and has assisted over 3,200 people into
in Scotland’s economy
Hospitality programme
employment and has supported the
secured employment
training of over 2,100 people.
“We have found an
“Since joining the team at Fort Kinnaird, I have excellent support
developed a lot of new skills. When I left school I was through the
unsure of what to do. However, the time I have spent recruitment
here has given me excellent experience and a view process. This is
to the career path I want to take in the future.” how it should
Apprentice at Fort Kinnaird be done.”
M&S, retailer at Fort Kinnaird
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The Fort Kinnaird “I have been overwhelmed with
how the children have responded
to the project. Children previously
Community disillusioned with reading are now
engaged, motivated and enthusiastic
about reading. For our children,
having the opportunity to choose
1,200+ local people and own their own book allows
benefited from community and skills
them to see the power of the written
initiatives in 2017, such as our Young Readers word and we have also seen an
Programme with the National Literacy Trust improvement in their written work
and Bright Lights Starting Out in Retail and too as a result! Liam and his team
Hospitality training with Fort Kinnaird shops, have been amazing.”
restaurants, cafés and cinema
Head teacher at participating school
£159,000+ invested
“We are so grateful to
into the community since 2015 through cash
contributions, time volunteered by staff and Liam and his team at
in kind donations Fort Kinnaird for
choosing to name us
£99,000+ raised as their charity of the
through fundraising year and we are
for charitable causes at Fort Kinnaird since looking forward to
2010, thanks to the generosity of our visitors
and centre team
working together.”
Richmond’s Hope charity
It is important for the team at Fort from local primary schools to
Kinnaird and British Land to connect nurture a love of reading and improve
with our communities. their literacy skills. We’re proud to
have worked with over 1,200 local
From hosting literacy events to
schoolchildren since 2012.
facilitating fundraising, celebrating
local heritage to investing back into We’re delighted that the events held
the community, Fort Kinnaird is a at Fort Kinnaird are supported by our
place with people at its heart. occupiers and retailers.
Our award winning Young Readers
Programme with the National
Literacy Trust is helping children
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Great Places: “We love it here –
great shops with
Fort Kinnaird
a feeling of
community.”
Clarks, retailer
at Fort Kinnaird
100% dementia “Approachable,
14.3 million visitors friendly trained friendly and always
in 2017, average of 275,000 centre team, building a safe going out of their way
visits weekly and welcoming environment to ensure we have
for all visitors, especially everything we need.”
those who may be vulnerable
Odeon Cinema,
at Fort Kinnaird
BREEAM Very Good 4.6/5 visitor rating
sustainability rating
4.6
for the centre team and store
for our new cinema, reflecting staff, and 4.5/5 for safety,
our strong performance on security and cleanliness,
efficiency, wellbeing and reflecting visitor satisfaction
“Friendly and helpful team on
other sustainability criteria site and a great atmosphere
within the centre. The staff are
very approachable, forward
97% waste diverted Recognising the best people
from landfill thinking and innovative.
in the industry, Liam Smith
in 2017, with a total of 177 I would encourage retailers to
tonnes of waste managed was awarded the Shopping join the team here and help
since 2015 Centre Manager of the Year at develop the centre, it’s one of
the 2016 and 2017 SCEPTRE the best places I’ve worked.”
Awards for his community
120 tonnes re-used Primark, retailer
and recycled work and commitment to at Fort Kinnaird
since 2015, recycling 68% Fort Kinnaird’s development.
of waste, with residual
waste sent for incineration
(with energy recovery)
Our staff work hard to ensure and providing dementia-friendly
Fort Kinnaird is a great place to be training, we are committed to creating
and we are delighted our visitors a place that makes a difference to
rate the centre team and store people’s everyday lives.
staff 4.6 out of 5.
We are continuing to update and
From transforming our public spaces, improve the centre, and look forward
improving our environmental efficiency to welcoming every one of our visitors.
Find out more
or get in touch
Fort Kinnaird British Land
Liam Smith Rebecca Burns
Centre Director 020 7467 2966
0131 669 9090 sustainability@britishland.com
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32 Fleming House York House
Newcraighall 45 Seymour Street
Edinburgh London
EH15 3RD W1H 7LX
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www.fortkinnaird.com www.britishland.com
@FortKinnaird @BritishLandPLC
Fort Kinnaird is managed by British Land, one of the UK’s leading placemakers.
We welcome your feedback.
Recruitment Thank you to the Joined up for
& Skills Centre Business Partnership and other
local partners, who make the
0131 657 2674 Recruitment & Skills Centre such
– a success, including Business
31 Fleming House Gateway, Capital City Partnership,
Fort Kinnaird City of Edinburgh Council,
Edinburgh Cyrenians, Department for Work
EH15 3RD and Pensions (Jobcentre Plus),
– East Lothian Council, East Lothian
www.rscfortkinnaird.co.uk Works, Midlothian Council and
@RSCFortKinnaird Skills Development Scotland.
For Regeneris’ full methodology on the Fort Kinnaird economic contributions,
please visit: http://www.britishland.com/sustainabilityreport
All information presented in this review is correct as of February 2018.
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