What is the Customer and Community Investment Fund?
LNER’s Customer and Community Investment Fund (CCIF) works to support charities and causes along our route. It provides vital funding to small and medium sized projects that deliver a positive impact to issues that are important to us.
Your project needs to be within 15 miles of the LNER route.
There are three priorities the fund supports: Better for People, Better for Places and Better for Planet.
Better for People
Fostering a culture of equality, that champions diversity and inclusivity.
Creating a culture of positive mental health, bringing people and communities together.
Better for Places
Creating skilled and inclusive communities along our networks that can thrive.
Better for Planet
Conserve resources, reduce waste and reuse where possible.
Applications are open now and will close on 2nd September.
For more information and to apply, please click here
Maybe instead, they should help fund connecting Ashington to the ECML via a reopened Butterwell line.