Insights from our employee engagement survey and stakeholder workshops highlighted a need for a structured internal leadership development pathway for Band C managers, our middle management population who balance the day-to-day demands of leading their teams with the needs of executive leadership. Key priorities that emerged for this programme include inspiring communication, leading through change, decision making, and delegation.
As the North Wessex Downs VIP project moves towards the final stages of construction, we will be temporarily closing a small section of Conscience Lane.
This is to allow the project team to safely work on surfacing the new entrance for the access track to the western cable sealing end compound (CSEC).
The closure will be in place from Monday 30 March 2026 to Friday 3 April 2026, but we are hoping that the work will be completed before the Easter bank holiday begins.
The Community Grant Programme is aimed at community organisations and charities in areas affected by National Grid Electricity Transmission’s operations and construction activities.
In June 2024, The Mind Tree Café was awarded just over £10,000 by the programme to redecorate and enhance the centre, which provides wellbeing support to residents.
A huge 271.5 -tonne tunnel boring machine has begun its journey to construct a 2.2km tunnel beneath the River Thames, marking a major milestone for National Grid’s Grain to Tilbury project.
Weighing the equivalent of a fully loaded Boeing 777 aeroplane, the machine named Caroline was launched today by Energy Minister Michael Shanks. The TBM will excavate the tunnel that forms a critical part of the new infrastructure supporting the electricity network.
Dan arweiniad Steve Ellison, Uwch Reolwr Prosiect Darpariaeth Effaith Weledol Eryri, Bryony Brown, y Peiriannydd Prosiect Twnnel a Paul Neary, Goruchwyliwr y Prosiect, dechreuodd yr ymweliad gyda chyflwyniad yng Nghanolfan Wybodaeth y Prosiect. Rhoddodd hyn rywfaint o gyd-destun i’r myfyrwyr am brosiect Darpariaeth Effaith Weledol Eryri, yn ogystal â gwybodaeth am yr hyn y dylent ddisgwyl ei weld ar safle’r prosiect.
Yna, cafodd y myfyrwyr daith gerdded o amgylch safle Minffordd, lle cawsant gyfle i ddysgu mwy am weithrediad prosiect peirianneg mawr o ddydd i ddydd.
Led by Eryri VIP Senior Project Manager Steve Ellison, Tunnel Project Engineer Bryony Brown and Project Supervisor Paul Neary, the visit started with a presentation at the Project Information Centre. This provided the students with some context about the Eryri VIP project and information about what they should expect to see on the project site.
The students were then given a walking tour around the Minffordd site, where they got to learn more about the day-to-day operation of a large-scale engineering project firsthand.