Shared Responsibility - Npower

CommunityEach power station has a Local LiaisonCommittee, which meets regularly and providesan opportunity for local residents to discussissues and activities related to our power stationoperations. We also produce newsletters forlocal communities to keep them informed of ouractivities. We had five justified complaints frompower station operations, compared with tenlast year.Our community activity focuses on three keyareas: Education, Environment and Disability.EducationThe core of our education work is ‘Energy to live,energy to learn’, which is a national educationprogramme covering our three core customerregions and the localities around our powerstations and wind farms. The programme hasthree main components: educational resources,presentations in schools and interactivepower days.In partnership with schools, npower has producedthree free educational ‘Power Pack®’ resourcesfor schools and community groups. The packscover Key Stage 1 and 2 for pupils and the‘Power Pack® – An easy guide to energy’ has beenproduced for young adults. These resources arelinked to the National Curriculum and we havereceived good feedback from teachers.To complement our Power Packs, we have a freein-school presentation service, which covers thesafe use of electricity, general information onenergy and renewable energy. A growing numberof our staff are involved in this programme, aspart of their personal development plans. We runthis in our core customer areas.In addition, our ‘Power Days’ are interactiveworkshops covering a range of ‘power’ themedtopics which are fun, activity-based sessions forupper Key Stage 2 pupils. We run these in ourcore customer areas.We are also helping to raise the profile ofengineering in schools by funding the GCSEEngineering Steering Group.e-mentoringOur staff are involved in the Government-supportede-mentoring programme which assists childrenin education action zones around the country.It enables mentors and mentees to communicatesafely via a secure website on a range of issues insupport of the National Curriculum. Over £8,525has been generated through matched-funding tosupport participating schools.Tag RugbyWorking with former England and British Lionsrugby player Ben Clarke, we supported a seriesof Tag Rugby Festivals across the country.84 schools close to our sites participated in thescheme, giving 1,725 pupils the opportunity tolearn how to play Tag Rugby.Community contributions for 2003 followingthe London Benchmarking Group (LBG)model which provides a standard forcommunity reporting.Community Investment 2003**In 2002, our total CommunityInvestment was £1,542,894,which included £293,570Landfill Tax Credit funds.Charitable (£492,484)Community Investment (£600,787)Commercial Activity (£128,437)Total: £1,221,708 (including £141,884of Landfill Tax Credit funds)31