Membership
Benefits
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Membership is open to any UK housebuilder, but aimed principally at the 25 largest UK developers, both listed and privately owned.
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2009 NextGeneration members:
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Member services
NextGeneration membership entitles companies to:
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Annual benchmarking including bespoke reporting and presentation of results
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Networking events held four times a year focused on pertinent issues facing the sector
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Monthly sustainability webmail briefings distilling key sector news
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Inspace Partnerships has found its decision to become a member of the NextGeneration initiative invaluable...Having an independent party scrutinise our achievements is providing us with a snapshot of where we currently are and helps us to see where our strengths and weaknesses lie. .gif "Quote Mark"){kind=small}
Brendan Ritchie, Inspace Partnerships
For information on membership, please contact Philip Hirst.
Associate Membership
An Associate Membership package is available to developers outside of the top 25 and commercial property companies who have a significant residential portfolio. Associate members can benefit from all services offered to members, or a combination of them which are suitable for their needs.
We currently have one associate member for 2009:
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For information on associate membership, please contact Sarah Bullock.
Benefits of Joining
An unrivalled understanding of sustainability performance
Inspace Partnerships has found its decision to become a member of the NextGeneration initiative invaluable...Having an independent party scrutinise our achievements is providing us with a snapshot of where we currently are and helps us to see where our strengths and weaknesses lie. Brendan Ritchie, Inspace Partnerships
The NextGeneration benchmark is unique in the market, providing an independent assessment of how companies are performing in relation to their peers in the management and development of their approach to sustainability.
Participation in NextGeneration enables companies to understand the strengths and weakness of their approach to managing sustainability. This occurs formally (through the benchmark) and informally (through member events, networking and intelligence briefings). Members are provided with a presentation and report of the benchmarking results; in order to maximise the benefits and value to companies these are tailored specifically to the needs of the company.
Providing intelligence: from practical solutions to best practice
The recommendations presented to companies following the benchmarking exercise provide practical suggestions of areas where improvements can be made.
The members meetings and intelligence briefings provide access to the latest thinking and innovation in sustainability practice by homebuilders. Feedback from recent member events has been excellent:
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100% of attendees at the member meeting on FSC timber agreed the issue to be very or increasingly relevant to company activities.
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Many companies have used to the results of our ‘mystery shopper’ exercise carried out in 2008 to improve the information provided to customers in sales and marketing suites.
From late 2008 members will have access to their own intranet site, giving access to a whole range of information.
Enhancing communications
The Berkeley Group was delighted to be ranked first in the 2007 NextGeneration benchmark. As an urban regenerator, sustainability is at the heart of Berkeley and an integral part of the business strategy. Our participation in NextGeneration has enabled us to understand our level of commitment to these issues in relation to our peers, and engage with key stakeholders. Karl Whiteman, The Berkeley Group
The results of the benchmark enable companies to drive change internally (by understanding where improvements could be made) and improve the quality of publicly available information (by understanding strengths in approach and areas of weakness in reporting).
Members are welcome to use the logo in communications and marketing, subject to NextGeneration’s approval. Using the results of the benchmark in Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting enables companies to provide a simple overview to stakeholders of their performance relative to their peers.
Enabling collaboration
Having been personally involved in the initiative for some years, I know that NextGeneration is instrumental in driving sustainability into the residential sector and I’m delighted to formally endorse it on behalf of the UK-GBC. Paul King, Chief Executive, UK-Green Building Council
NextGeneration enables members to collaborate with peers in voicing shared problems and solutions – to government, planning authorities, investors and professional institutions. NextGeneration will be targeting specific stakeholder group’s following the publication of the 2008 Climate Change benchmark with a view to promoting how the benchmark can be used as an engagement tool with homebuilders.