MY Community Promise

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MY Community Promise

What is MY Community Promise?

MY Community Promise sets out the Trust’s ambitions for how our local hospitals and community services can make our neighbourhoods healthier, happier, and greener.  To achieve these ambitions, we are considering all the ways we can improve the lives of people in our local communities.

As an organisation anchored in our local communities, we recognise that wellbeing is about far more than providing healthcare services. MY Community Promise sets out our ambitions for how we can also increase our impact on social and economic outcomes.

In our continued efforts to recognise and celebrate diversity, embrace innovation and engage the workforce and local communities, MY Community Promise is based on working in partnership to address four key pillars. These are equity and engagement, economy, education and employment, and estate and environment. 

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MY Community Promise is about: 

•    looking beyond healthcare, at the wider purpose of our organisation
•    looking after our communities 
•    improving health and social inequalities
•    working with local businesses
•    offering employment opportunities to local people
•    reducing our environmental impact
•    working with partners to have the greatest social impact

MY Community Promise details

Healthcare remains at the heart of what we do, with a focus on working with our communities to achieve excellent patient experience each and every time. However, we are also committed to taking action on how our Trust can be a force for good by using our assets and influence to bring about change.

By teaming up with health and care partners, local councils and the voluntary and education sectors, we can reduce our environmental impact, address social and economic inequalities and create exciting and innovative employment, volunteering, pre-employment, and network opportunities for our communities.

Our efforts to support the social and economic development of our communities are focused on developing practices supported by NHS England and The Health Foundation. Through MY Community Promise we want to develop something which resonates with our communities, our patients, our staff, and our organisation, as we recognise our potential to do so much more. 

Get in touch 

If you would like to find out more or have any suggestions about how we can support greater social and economic impact in our local communities, please contact us.

Key achievements and ongoing projects   

Working in partnership

·       We have developed MY Community Promise, our organisation’s ambition to work with the communities we occupy and serve, to contribute to economic and social development.

·       We work with our local communities, supporting over 300 volunteers across our hospital and community sites.

·       We are working with partners to explore a collaborative approach to social impact.

Economy

·       In 2024/25 we bought from over 300 local companies across West Yorkshire.

·       In 2024/25 we spent £577m on staff salaries.

·       We worked with partners to collaboratively deliver supplier workshops across West Yorkshire, with plans for future workshops throughout 2025.

·       We are working to better understand our local supply chains and how we deliver social impact through our contracts.

Education and employment

·       We delivered 48 careers events in 2024/25 for our local schools, colleges and communities.

·       We have delivered 160 work experience placements so far in 2025/26.

·       We are continuing to work with partners to deliver targeted place-based hyper-local recruitment events.

Equity and engagement

·       We established the Trust’s first patient council following relationships developed with local community groups.

·       We delivered the Trust’s first Shadow Board programme, supporting diversity in leadership.

·       We are working with partners to develop a children and young person’s council.

Estate and environment

·       We were awarded £2m of grant funding to buy 16k LED light fittings. Once rolled out, the new lights will save 500 tonnes of CO2 equivalent, which represents 2% of our overall carbon footprint.

·       We were awarded £2.7m of grant funding for rooftop solar at Pinderfields. Once implemented in March 2026, the annual solar output will equate to just over 200 tonnes of CO2 equivalent in terms of carbon reductions.

·       We are working to improve the green spaces across our sites for our staff and patients, as well as making our sites more accessible to our communities.