Community Impact
Overview
Wherever we operate, we seek to ensure that we bring mutual benefit. That means we aim to recruit new colleagues from the local area, and use local businesses to support relevant activities at our sites.
Through Ardersier Port, Haventus will contribute to the regeneration of the local area as well as the development of the UK’s supply chain and skills base for offshore wind manufacturing and deployment.
We seek to support the causes and projects that matter to our local community. We have established a Community Benefit Fund to support the communities around our Ardersier Port energy transition facility.
This provides long-term funding for initiatives chosen by the local communities themselves, ensuring money is directed to the projects and causes that matter most.
Ardersier Port Community Benefit Fund
Empowering local communities
In 2024, following dialogue with representatives of the local community around our Ardersier Port facility, Haventus established a Community Benefit Fund. The Fund, which will provide more than £1million over a ten-year period, will provide resources to support the initiatives and needs determined and decided by the local community, ensuring that funds are directed effectively.
Haventus has partnered with Foundation Scotland, an experienced administrator of Community Benefit Funds, to operate the Fund.
Foundation Scotland
Foundation Scotland is Scotland’s Community Foundation, a Scottish charity with 25 years’ experience in managing charitable funds and making grants to local causes across Scotland.
Haventus works with Foundation Scotland’s Communities Team, who are located across Scotland, and who establish and administer community benefit funds flowing from onshore and offshore developments, notably renewable energy installations in Scotland.
