About

Social impact is about making permanent, positive, significant change for communities through deliberate activities.

Our social impact approach seeks to create shared value. This means securing a positive return to all stakeholders throughout the Sellafield system. This ranges from the UK taxpayer, HM Government, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), local authorities, our supply chain and the communities in closest proximity to our sites. It is not an add on, it is an expectation.

Unleashing and securing the significant potential for shared value from the investment in Sellafield Ltd requires long term and strong relationships with our stakeholders, supply chain partners and communities. Embracing new collaborations, partnerships and relationships is fundamental to the collective success of West Cumbria and Warrington both economically and socially.

The Social Impact Multiplied strategy, aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and the Sellafield sustainability integration strategy, sets out our approach. The principles of community wealth building are at the heart of our strategy; from how we as a company spend money to how we work with partners to see benefits for the local area, such as economic inclusion, employment, skills, environmental impact and greater wellbeing.

This website showcases some of the projects supported by Sellafield through its social impact programme, and the outputs of these interventions for our communities.

Our themes

Attracting investment 
Working with stakeholders, partners and communities to practice an integrated approach to leveraging social impact. 

Economic growth 
To enable inclusive growth in the capacity, diversity and capability of our local economies.

Community resilience
Assisting our communities to thrive by supporting sustainable activities that create self-reliance and independence. 

Pride of place 
Develop public spaces to improve quality of life and pride in our communities to retain and attract people.

Skills 
To improve access to sustainable incomes, within and beyond Sellafield Ltd, by increasing skills, knowledge, aspirations and access to opportunities.

Wellbeing 
Partner with local authorities and subject experts in design and co-creation to address the effects of poverty and health and wellbeing of the community.