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Signing the Armed Forces Covenant for a further fiveyears
By signing up to the government’sArmed Forces Covenant for afurther five years, National Express has committed to anew package of pledges to support the Armed Forces:
•Guaranteed interviews to service leavers for all National Express roles across Coach and Bus (originally only available to those with aPCV licence)
•Including spouses and families of service leavers in its guaranteed interview scheme
•Ten days extra leave for staffinthe Reserve Forces
•Extension of the existing discount of 60% on coach travel for serving personnel to include group bookings
•Discount for bus travel on its West Midlands network
•Freebus travel to families visiting soldiers at the Military Hospital at the QE in Birmingham and to volunteers on Remembrance Sunday.
The company already employs over forty former forces personnel and reservists in avariety of roles including: drivers, health and safety officers, bus engineers, and
customer service advisors. These personnel come from roles from all over the armed forces including: Royal Marines, Royal Signals, Royal Engineers, RAF,Navy, Gurkhas, ranking from private all the way up to major.
In the five years since the first Covenant was signed, morethan 116,000 serving and former forces personnel have taken advantage of discounted coach travel through the Defence Discount Service, giving them a total saving of morethan amillion pounds.
The UK’sleading coach provider has also provided £60,000 worth of free travel to thousands of people using The British Legion’sShort Break Centres and raised tens of thousands of pounds for Armed Forces related charities, including over £30,000 via online donations from its customers when buying tickets for the Royal British Legion.
To buy discounted travel visit:
defencediscountservice.co.uk/
To see National Express’scurrent job vacancies visit:
nationalexpress.jobs/jobs
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