We believe we should play an active and positive role in the community. Many of our projects relate directly to our business, such as our electric blanket testing programme for older people - We Test you Rest - and our work to educate young people about energy.

Currently across the UK we have 8 visitors centres, most are situated along side our power stations. The aim of these centres is not only to educate young people about energy and the environment, but also to ensure that through the facilities at the centres young people have the opportunity to bring energy to life through play and interaction.

Our Hams Hall Environmental Centre is one example of our sustained commitment to young people. The centre is a unique facility; it provides a fully equipped 'outdoor' classroom that teaches school children about all aspects of environmental awareness. It provides day courses for over 350 teachers and their pupils each year.

We're also developing an education programme called the 'EON Energy Experience' which is aimed at ages 5-16. This is a major national programme aimed at giving young people essential facts and figures about the different sources of energy we use, the relative merits of each, the options for energy production going forward and what their choices will mean locally, nationally and globally. As the name suggests the E.ON Energy Experience doesn't tell young people about energy it allows them to experience it. We also developed an education programme called Plugin2engineering, for more information about this scheme please click here.

We also encourage our employees to get involved in volunteering, and we are proud that so many of them do - over 1,700 in 2005.

• Community strategy
• Community projects
• Work with young people
• Sports sponsorship
• Employee involvement
• Community consultation
• Community Power
• Community safety