CASE STUDY CROWN ESTATE
EATING WELL The Crown Estate, with the help of its catering provider, Vacherin, has developed a
worldclass wellbeing off ering. FM- looks at how food can make all the diff erence
The Crown Estate’s new headquarters, located at 1 St James’s Market,
London, has a growing list of accolades that would make even its
West End neighbours blush. Since moving to its new location in 2017, The
Crown Estate’s o€ ice has received a WELL Platinum certification, the first
in Europe, and a Leesman score that places it among the top two per cent
of buildings in the world for employee experience. These achievements
represent the culmination of a journey by the organisation to create an
exceptional workplace with the health, wellbeing and performance of its
people at the centre.
The Crown Estate is a modern property company with one crucial di erence.
Appointed under the 1961 Crown Estate Act, it returns 100 per cent of its profits
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to HM Treasury for the benefit of the nation’s finances. It is a company with a
portfolio that is as diverse as any other property firm’s, including commercial,
retail, residential, agricultural, forestry and seabed interests, which it combines
with a purpose-led approach to business and a commitment to be a leading,
progressive employer with a state-of-the-art workplace.
According to Colin Mooney, Head of Operational Resilience who is responsible
for health and safety performance across The Crown Estate, when the
organisation moved its head o ice from Regent Street to 1 St James’s Market
(both part of its portfolio), the primary objective was to deliver a workplace
that would allow sta to work in a far more connected way. He says the three
floors that the organisation occupied in its Regent Street o ice had become