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National Grid story about partnership with MyKindaFuture ET :Community spirit

Inspiring young people to consider energy sector careers

12 August 2021

Since its launch in October 2020, our partnership with MyKindaFuture – the UK’s leading underrepresented talent specialist – has helped inspire 18,000 students from diverse backgrounds to consider careers in STEM and shows no signs of slowing down.

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National Grid's Susan with her WES 2021 'top female engineer' award Group :Community spirit

Meet our award-winning engineer who's always aimed high

23 June 2021

Susana Neves e Brooks is part of the prestigious Women's Engineering Society's 2021 list of top 50 women in engineering. Find out more about her, from her childhood love of fighter jets to her thoughts on now being an award winner.

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We’ve joined the Valuable 500 – because disability is our business

4 June 2021

Diversity of thought, backgrounds and perspectives is critical to achieving our ambitions, generally and for net zero. We’ve taken a further step with this by joining the Valuable 500 – a global movement putting disability on the business agenda.

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We’ve joined the Valuable 500 – because disability is our business

4 June 2021

Diversity of thought, backgrounds and perspectives is critical to achieving our ambitions, generally and for net zero. We’ve taken a further step with this by joining the Valuable 500 – a global movement putting disability on the business agenda.

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National Grid partners with UWE to protect UK's bat population article ET :Community spirit

National Grid partners with UWE to protect the UK's bat population

13 April 2021

We have partnered with the University of the West of England on a unique PhD research project on how to mitigate construction impact on bat populations. The findings will be applied on future construction projects and used by UK planning authorities.

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National Grid story: The story of electricity, interconnectors and a little girl called Nessa Ventures :Community spirit

The story of electricity, interconnectors and a little girl called Nessa

23 March 2021

How to make electricity more exciting for schoolchildren? Introduce 10-year-old Nessa and her quest to discover where electricity comes from.

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