The benefit of the Government’s announcement of a £14.2bn investment in the Sizewell C nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast has rippled down to Kent.

Royal British Legion Industries (RBLI), the national charity supporting Armed Forces veterans and people with disabilities, has delivered its first order to the team building what will be one of Britain’s largest nuclear power stations.

The charity’s social enterprise, which employs more than 100 people at RBLI’s factories in Aylesford, Leatherhead, and Bishopton in Scotland, has been appointed the signage partner for Sizewell C.

The first order was for a selection of temporary and permanent road signage for use on the growing construction site. The RBLI team is currently talking with security, construction, road, and rail infrastructure contractors working on what will be the first British-owned nuclear power station in over three decades.

Colin Harsant, Managing Director of Social Enterprise at RBLI, said: “We’re pleased by how well the team at Sizewell C has embraced the importance of environmental and social governance and of supporting organisations such as ours.

“As the construction work is still in its early stages, this was a significant first order that demonstrates Sizewell C’s commitment to social enterprise and signals the start of what promises to be a long relationship.

“We’re looking forward to continuing our work both direct with Sizewell C and with other organisations in its supply chain over the next decade.”

Sizewell C is expected to come online in the mid-2030s, with the RBLI team signed up for the duration of the works.

Once operational, Sizewell C will be a 3.2GW nuclear power station capable of generating enough low carbon electricity to power six million homes.

During a visit to meet the team at RBLI in Kent, Malcolm Dare, Supply Chain Director at Sizewell C, said: “We are creating tens of thousands of jobs and training opportunities, and this supply chain contract with RBLI is part of that—while also supporting the employment of veterans and disabled people.

“Being able to sign up a social enterprise organisation to supply our site so early in the project was very important to us, and we were pleased to receive our first order from RBLI.”

For more information about RBLI’s social enterprise activity visit: www.rbli.co.uk/what-we-do/social-enterprise