Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation

Who we are

We are the Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation – a unique place-based foundation with a vision to make the world’s first Garden City a great place for everyone to live, work and visit.

It is our vision that living in Letchworth Garden City offers everyone the opportunity to flourish as part of a vibrant community enjoying the best that both town and country offers, benefitting from easy access to nature and with unrivalled facilities, culture and support networks.

We manage our assets and investments to generate income that enables us to care for the Garden City estate and support our local community, providing access to green spaces and a range of culture, heritage, learning and leisure facilities. We fund and support local organisations working to improve everyone’s quality of life and meet our charitable objectives.

Our Strategic Aims to 2028:

1. Improve our financial resilience by active asset management and development, responding to changing needs and  market opportunities, and transitioning to a low carbon economy estate

2. Lead and champion sustainable conservation of Letchworth’s architectural heritage

3. Improve wellbeing by increasing access to nature and the outdoors, getting more people involved in managing and improving greenspace, and promoting use of Letchworth’s network of leisure facilities 

4. That Letchworth becomes a great place for children and young people to grow up

5. More people are engaged in a rich and diverse cultural programme, and Letchworth is known for its thriving culture and leisure offer 

6. Improve prosperity and life chances by developing and funding skills, advice and support programmes

Our culture and values

Our Values : Collaborative.  Evidence-based.  Inclusive.  Supportive.

We are a people business. We look for passionate people who will help us to meet our vision and values. Our values demonstrate our principles and guide our actions. We want our values to come to life through people’s experience of each other and the Foundation as whole - ultimately helping create a culture that ensures our commitment to achieving our vision and mission

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

The Foundation does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, marital status.

The Foundation is committed to being an inclusive employer with a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from the BAME community, LGBTQ+ applicants and disabled applicants, as they are under-represented within the Foundation. Appointment will always, however, be made on merit.