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And so yesterday evening, colleagues from across the property industry gathered at Legal and General's city HQ to celebrate LandAid's newest network: the Ambassadors.

My first charity visit as a LandAid Ambassador was to a project in Leeds called Renew.

LandAid is proud to be the charity of choice of tonight's iconic Property Awards. Run by the team at Property Week, the Awards celebrate the great and the good of the industry, whilst also raising a significant sum of money for charity.

LandAid is supporting an influential new campaign by charity partner Circle that aims to lobby companies to compete against each other to hire young unemployed candidates.

England rugby legend Lawrence Dallaglio lifted the curtain on the National Surveyors Rugby Sevens tournament at a launch party last Wednesday.

In July 2014, LandAid launched its free property advice programme, a match-making service that pairs property professionals with charities seeking advice on their buildings.

Over the past financial year, LandAid has awarded a tremendous £1,260,924 in grants to 22 charity projects, making 2014/15 our best-ever year of grant giving. This is a wonderful testimony to the fundraising efforts and enthusiasm of the property industry.

As the property world descended on Cannes last week for the annual real estate conference, MIPIM, London was unusually quiet. So with the property industry out of office' and spring just around the corner (I say that as it begins to drizzle outside) it seemed as good a time as any to reflect on the growing successes of our pro bono programme.

Yesterday LandAid delivered the exciting news that £450,000 of funding had been awarded to the first four successful charities from our autumn grants round.