Crossrail's initiative to support community projects and local charities is the first of its kind. Our ambitious Community Investment Programme, now up and running, will help set the standard for future infrastructure projects.

The programme requires our contractors to donate their skills, time, money and expertise to bring lasting benefit to the communities in which they are working. The Crossrail led approach helps to deliver consistent and meaningful benefit alongside construction and beyond the life of the project.

The first community investment initiatives have begun and plenty more are set to follow.

BNK (Bam Nuttall / Kier), the contractors carrying out piling works for Crossrail's new Whitechapel station (to prepare for the main station works beginning), have committed to three sets of community investment.

The first of these has been completed with BNK donating £4,000 to purchase new kit for struggling local football club Senrab FC. Senrab were founded in Stepney in 1961 and train 350 children between the ages of five and 16. More information about BNK's donation can be found here.

In partnership with skills expert Next Steps, BNK will also provide free CSCS (Construction Skills Certification Scheme) or Health and Safety training to 24 local residents, equipping them with some of the skills needed to begin work.

Finally, BNK will work with the residents of Trahorn Close (adjacent to a Crossrail worksite in Whitechapel) to regenerate the green spaces and gardens in and around the community, including providing new shrubs, trees and lighting, and updating the children's play area.

The project will be strengthened, and the future upkeep of the gardens further ensured, by being combined with gardening skills courses laid on by BNK, and donation of the gardening tools.

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