Corporate Responsibility
As a shopping centre standing at the heart of its local community, Eastgate has a full Corporate Responsibility programme that it shares among its shoppers.
Environmental management is a key aspect of Eastgate's CR ethos, the centre proactively seeking to make Basildon a greener town in which to live. In the early part of the last decade, Eastgate was among the first shopping centres in the UK to implement measures to reduce waste and energy and since then has won numerous awards local, regional and national levels in recognition of it environmental efforts.
Eastgate works closely with various organisations representing health, education and law and order to generate "tangible benefits" for Basildon. These include the local arts industry, and in particular the Basildon Arts Trust, the Basildon Arts Trail and the Basildon Heritage Trust. In July 2011, the Centre opened a gallery titled Basildon-Eastgate Art on the Upper Mall which provides opportunities for local artists to display their works. A similar initiative in 2006 attracted 51,000 visitors over the six-month period that the exhibition ran, thereby demonstrating the popularity and strength of art in Basildon.
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