Building together - Autumn 2024

Overview

Our work at AWE protects the UK through nuclear science and technology. 

This work is only possible thanks to our dedicated, diverse and skilled workforce, many of whom live in the local area. Our communities provide us with apprentices, graduates and many others who join our unique business and who, in turn, use local businesses and facilities.

The UK government has committed to investing in AWE so that we continue to support the country’s nuclear deterrent and nuclear threat reduction activities.

This significant investment means AWE will continue to be a major employer and neighbour in the local area for many years to come. 

It’s important that we work alongside you as our plans for the future are developed.

In autumn 2024, we held community drop-in sessions and invited you to meet our teams and find out more about us and our future plans.

We met over 300 people in Aldermaston, Tadley, Burghfield, Newbury, Basingstoke and Reading, as well as during our two online webinars.

We also asked you to complete our online feedback form to help us understand how you want us to stay in touch and what you want us to stay in touch about.

What happens next

We appreciate you taking the time to talk to us and give us your views.

In early 2025, we will share a summary of the feedback we received on this website and send it to everyone who took part.

We would also like to use this feedback to start developing an AWE Community Charter, that we will share with you and that you can hold us to.

Our first charter commitment:
We will do our best to give you as much information as we can, but in a way that also protects our people, our work and our nation’s security.

We will come back to you with further information on our future plans in 2025.