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We provide communities with much more than just high quality water and sewerage services. Our community programmes are designed to make a real difference to the quality of people’s lives across the areas in which we operate.
Employee volunteering is the main focus of our community work and we use it to develop our people and build strong links with our customers and stakeholders.
For example, our One Million Green Fingers campaign launched in September 2007 will involve our volunteers creating sustainable gardens and allotments in over 350 primary schools in the Yorkshire region over the next three years.
Our education centres continued to be extremely busy with over 8,000 visitors passing through their doors each year. Since 2003, over 40,000 children have now visited one of our three education centres in Leeds, Sheffield and North Yorkshire, to learn about the water cycle.
All of our community initiatives are linked to our capital investment programme, so that the communities we work in receive something in addition to water quality and environmental improvements. This year, we delivered safety presentations to over 4,300 children and teachers potentially affected by our works. |
