Helping communities during the pandemic Resilient Communities Fund 2020 as well. Our skilled teams are based right Who are we across the regions we serve, supported Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks by engineering and customer service manages, maintains and develops the teams based in major offices and depots in electricity networks which bring power to centres like Reading, Portsmouth, Perth and 3.8 million homes and businesses in the Inverness. north of Scotland and central southern Our first priority is to provide a safe England. and reliable supply of electricity to the Our engineers take care of around 130,000 communities we serve. kilometres of wires and cables, and over Since 2015 we have operated the Resilient 100,000 substations. We work hard to Communities Fund which has provided ensure our networks are as reliable as £2.8m to 540 not-for-profit community possible and invest millions of pounds every groups and charities in our electricity year to upgrade and improve the electricity distribution network areas in central supplies within our transmission and southern England and the north of Scotland. distribution areas. The fund helps communities to build We pride ourselves not just on working in resilience for emergency events and protect our communities but being part of them the welfare of vulnerable community members.
3.8m homes and businesses across England Scotland
A new challenge volunteers to support the most vulnerable .8m This has been a year like no other. The global in our network areas. We acted quickly and coronavirus pandemic has impacted us all as funding to decisively by awarding £363,848 funding community we navigate new ways of living and working to 178 community organisations. This organisations since in our everyday lives. SSEN has played its funding has been vital for communities in part in supporting communities during this allowing them to focus on their immediate unforeseen time. Our dedicated frontline needs, from accessing PPE for volunteers to staff have worked throughout the pandemic providing hot meals for those self-isolating. to keep the power flowing to the regions We know the impact of the pandemic is we serve, including the care homes and not yet over and we remain committed to hospitals that are so critical in our country’s playing our part. We will continue to work response to the pandemic. with communities during the recovery from Local communities have been at the the pandemic to ensure lessons learned centre of the coronavirus response. SSEN from this experience will help enhance recognised that we could help community resilience planning for future emergencies.
2 unds at a glance 3 3k awarded to 8 emergency pro ects during the pandemic