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Volunteers from National Grid’s Bramford to Twinstead Reinforcement project teamed up with Suffolk Scouts to provide essential equipment and improve facilities at the Hallowtree Scout Activity Centre, Ipswich.

An update on our work to transform the natural landscape across the Dwyryd Estuary

Members of National Grid’s North Wessex Downs VIP project team recently joined more than a hundred local residents and community leaders in Bromham for a very special occasion: the official reopening of the village’s Community Hub by Her Majesty Queen Camilla

A team from National Grid New England worked to create a new low- income discount programme for Massachusetts customers.

Find out how National Grid engages with communities and supports them through initiatives like school workshops, skills fairs and local partnerships, including the recent Suffolk FutureSkills Fair.

A purpose-built bat barn created as part of the Hinkley Connection Project is thriving as a sanctuary for local bat species, with recent ecological monitoring confirming its growing importance as a year-round habitat.

Our contractors, Balfour Beatty, working on behalf of National Grid’s Hinkley Connection Project, partnered with volunteers from the Strawberry Line Trust to improve accessibility along Somerset’s much-loved community pathway.

Ring main units are a type of switchgear that are supplied in a protective plastic bag to keep components dry. Working with our supplier Schneider Electric and their sustainability team, we have trialed a reusable protection solution to replace plastic bags.