Flagship projects

Each year our regional businesses propose projects of special note for corporate Flagship status; this entitles the chosen charity to up to £100,000 of funding. The Company favours projects where our employees are personally involved, or projects that are close to communities in which we operate, rather than national or global causes.

2009/10

This year’s Flagship Project award was split between two projects, both of which represent International Power’s objective of giving back to the communities in which we operate providing ongoing benefits to those using the facilities for years to come.

Marmara Handicapped Workshop (£50,000)

Person in a wheelchair being lifted into a vanThis project, located near our Marmara plant in Turkey, will establish a workshop to help handicapped and elderly people become more involved in everyday life. The funding has furnished and equiped a new muscle therapy room and enabled the purchase of both an ambulance and a minibus to provide transport for people to and from the facility.

The nature of the venture ensures the investment has a lasting impact as the workshop’s ongoing running costs will be funded by the Silivri Municipality.

Lord Somers Camp performing arts centre (£36,000)

Lord Somers Camp performing arts centreLord Somers Camp is a not-for-profit youth development organisation located in Victoria, Australia. This investment will allow the upgrade of outdoor theatre facilities including a new stage, proper seating, lighting, audio visual equipment, and canopy and roofing so the facility can be used in all weather.

The Somers campsite is used for a variety of programmes run for the youth, community, culturally diverse, terminally and chronically ill and disabled, and is also hired by schools and community groups at subsidised prices or at no cost.

All programmes are organised, fundraised, developed and driven entirely by volunteer association members. This project was nominated by one of our Simply Energy employees, Kate Devine, who volunteers at the centre and whose family has a long-standing relationship with the organisation stretching back three generations.

2008/9

In 2009, International Power reacted swiftly to support the relief effort in the wake of the devastating bushfires in Australia both through employees volunteering efforts and financial donations. As a result of this contribution, the Flagship fund was reduced to £50,000 for the year; this was divided between two projects both nominated by our Rugeley plant in the UK:

  • The John Bamford Primary School UK – for the construction of a new building to be used by a number of local community groups.
  • The Energy Trail UK – for the construction of an interactive educational trail located in The Wolseley Centre, the headquarters for the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust.

The John Bamford Primary School UK


The funding provided through our Flagship scheme is enabling the school to construct a 45 square metre wooden building for use by groups in the surrounding area. The community room is being designed with a flexible layout, so it can be used for a variety of activities including:








  • mother & baby groups
  • adult learning
  • family activity clubs
  • toy lending library
  • before & after-school child care

When not in use for these and other activities, the community room will be utilised by the school.

The Energy Trail UK


The Flagship funding is enabling the construction of an interactive educational trail located in The Wolseley Centre, the headquarters for the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust.

The trail will provide first-hand experience of alternative green technology to school groups and the public through the provision of large-scale working models of wind, hydro and solar energy. The donation is also funding the production of a pilot Energy Trail education programme for school children that links to, and supports, key areas of the national curriculum including education for sustainable development and the framework for sustainable schools.


Flagship projects since 2000

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