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3. Responsibility in our Community We recognise that our environmental and biodiversity responsibilities go far beyond our core business operations, and we take action to help protect the environment and enhance biodiversity for communities right across our licensed area and beyond. In 2024, our partnership with leading local conservation charity, The Conservation Volunteers continued to thrive. It enabled us to deliver environmental and biodiversity impact in our community across three core themes:

Environmental Action Trees play a vital role in removing CO ǽ from the atmosphere, yet Northern Ireland remains the least wooded area in the UK. Working with The Conservation Volunteers, we supported the planting of a further 8,000 new native trees in community spaces and wooded areas throughout 2024. This brought our total number of trees planted throughout the duration of our partnership with The Conservation Volunteers to 24,000. As well as enhancing community spaces, the planting of native trees also supports the development of habitats , promotes native biodiversity and provides sustainability for many species such as wildlife, birds and insects which are essential for a healthy wooded ecosystem.

Environmental Education Engaging young people in the environment around them and giving them a sense of responsibility for biodiverse green spaces is an important element of our community environmental responsibility. Over the course of our 2024 partnership with TCV, we delivered a new Planet Protectors workshop for Primary School pupils. This was designed to increase learning of how to be planet friendly; small steps to reduce our carbon footprint and of course included planting trees. Through TCV, we delivered 7 workshops in local primary schools, engaging 223 pupils. In addition to this, we also reached 72 family volunteers across 5 Summer Scheme workshops at TCV’s Tree Nursery in Cultra.

Environmental Volunteering Spending time in green spaces has proven mental and physical health benefits and as part of our strategic partnership with The Conservation Volunteers our employees provided hands on support for tree planting and biodiversity projects alongside their existing community volunteers. Over the course of the year, our employees gave over 185 digging hours with the team from TCV and learned about the vital role of green spaces in supporting healthy communities.

and we have pledged that by the year 2031, we will have planted 80,000 trees

In 2024, we planted 8,000 trees

We organised 19 biodiversity initiatives during 2024 different

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