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Businesses in Scotland are being encouraged to bid for millions of pounds worth of upcoming contracts supporting the delivery of Britain’s new railway, HS2.

• £65,000 grant awarded from HS2 Community and Environment Fund

Warwick Arts Centre has been successful in its bid to the HS2 Community and Environment Fund (CEF) and has secured £250,000 towards its Warwick 20:20 project. The project involves replacing the existing cinema with new state of the art facilities and relocating the Mead Gallery

Prestwood Methodist Church in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, is one of the latest beneficiaries of the HS2 Community and Environment Fund (CEF) as they have been successful in their bid for a £4,000 grant towards the cost of replacing four windows in the main hall at Prestwood Methodist Church.  

• Latest milestone in the countdown to the launch of HS2’s first giant tunnelling machines – Florence and Cecilia
• New photographs showing work inside the vast temporary pre-cast factory can be found here: https://visual.library.hs2.org.uk/p/share/4nP6HKFPqjgB

• Realignment of Canley Brook near Kenilworth reduced from 700 metres to just 80 metres diversion
• Savings of 600,000 cubic metres of excavated material and 28,000 cubic metres of concrete
• 2,500 lorry movements removed from local roads
• New design images here: https://mediacentre.hs2.org.uk/resources/f/viaducts-140-miles-of-track-carried-by-over-50-viaducts/canley-brook
• People can find out more at a free webinar on 25 March: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hs2-bbv-canley-brook-design-update-webinar-tickets-143073074417