Increasingly, our residents are interested in how their gardens and outdoor space can be used to deliver sustainable projects that can help nature’s recovery.
At the heart of this is biodiversity – which is the variety of plant and animal life in the world or a particular habitat – we have been working with our residents to deliver biodiversity projects across our care homes.
All new homes at Oakland Care have at least 25% of outside space dedicated to biodiversity and all homes have an established wildlife garden.
In 2023, we opened our flagship wildlife garden and have replicated this project in every home since
Projects & Community
We actively support our local communities by volunteering our time for biodiversity projects, funded by Oakland Care. Our leaders, head office team, and staff from our local care homes regularly take part in initiatives such as woodland tree planting. In 2024, we planted over 6,500 trees and have pledged to plant at least 1,500 in 2025.
Woodland Trust
Oakland Care is a corporate member of the The Woodland Trust. We help them to plant and protect trees, bringing the benefits of trees to people, wildlife and the planet.
All of our homes have created local wildflower gardens and developed areas of land with features especially designed to attract wildlife such as frogs, bats, butterflies, bees and other insects.
Net Zero Carbon
By focusing on enhancing biodiversity, we are supporting the following UN Sustainable Development Goal:
15 Life on land
Our Commitments
- We are dedicated to setting science-based targets and maintaining our carbon neutral certification.
- We will maintain our Greenmark Level 3 status.
- We give back over 2000 hours of team time to local sustainability projects each year.
- We plant over 1500 trees annually.
- We evaluate our procurement efficiency, leading to fewer deliveries each year.
- We continue to send zero waste to landfill.
- We continually review our chemical provision to reduce the use of hazardous products.
- All of our homes are designed with at least 25% of garden space dedicated to biodiversity.
- All of our construction projects are certified by BREEAM.
- We only use FSC certified timber for all construction projects.
- We invest in specialist training to ensure expertise across the business and all team members complete mandatory training on improving sustainability.
- We continue our drive towards digitalisation and have significantly reduced paper use.
Our Sustainability Journey
Carbon Neutrality – In 2021, Oakland Care became the first UK care home group to be certified as carbon neutral. Discover how we are investing in innovative projects throughout our business to reduce carbon emissions.
Biodiversity – We have been working with our residents to deliver biodiversity projects across our care homes.
Procurement – We have implemented high sustainability requirements through our tendering processes with suppliers to ensure that the supplies we procure are produced and delivered with a lower level of environmental impact.
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