Other Partnerships Vision Pillar – PARTNERSHIPS: ‘We aim to be the partner of choice for the Government and the Island’s parishes, supporting all their energy needs.’ Our partnerships, however, go well beyond this as we seek to create value across our community in many ways beyond delivering our core business activities. We do this through our corporate sponsorship programme and the CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) activities of our people. We focus our support on charities, organisations and local causes that concentrate their activities on health, education and the environment. One relationship in particular that embraces both the environment and education is with our long-term partner the National Trust for Jersey which shares our Vision for a zerocarbon future. We support the Trust’s important Education Programme by sponsoring its full-time Education Officer for three years to the end of 2022. Around 3,500 children a year engage with the programme which involves activities that complement schools’ science curricula and encourage children to ‘reconnect with nature’. Under the banner ‘We Have the Power’, the programme aims to raise awareness of the causes of climate change and the impacts such as biodiversity loss and how to prevent this.
Showcase at COP26
The programme has also given rise to the exciting and innovative Power Rangers initiative in Jersey. Backed by the United Nations and headquartered at the ‘Climate Hub’ we helped to create at the Trust’s historic Le Moulin de Quétivel, Power Rangers is a young environmentalists’ club through which participants work towards official YUNGA (Young United Nations Global Alliance) Challenge Badges. A film about Jersey Power Rangers was shown at
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