Southeastern‘s 2024 Social Value Report shows the scope and scale of how it supports local people and communities across the areas it serves.

The report sets out the company’s financial and non-financial efforts to improve its social value through the wider economic, social, and environmental effects of the company’s actions.

The report shows that Southeastern has:

• Spent £274 million with local suppliers;
• Provided full-time jobs to 200 apprentices;
• Worked with partners to achieve a 44% reduction in anti-social behaviour and disorder at known hotspots;
• Supported over 86,000 students;
• Invested £200,000 with local Community Rail Partnerships.

Steve White, Managing Director, Southeastern, said: “At the heart of Southeastern are our customers, colleagues and stakeholders. We operate one of the busiest rail networks in the country, keeping customers moving between London and Kent and parts of East Sussex and helping the communities we serve to live, work and grow.

“We recognise that we play a vital role in delivering social value within our communities and can reduce economic and social inequality and support social mobility and local economic growth. In building a sustainable railway there is a real opportunity to be an economic enabler by connecting people and places.

“To achieve these aims, and to ensure we make a positive contribution to society, we have created this Social Value report as a call to action that provides both a structure and meaning to our work, and a vision that shows where we want to go. In this way, we can make better decisions, focus our efforts, work with like-minded partners such as the Purpose Coalition and share our hopes for the future.”