b'CONTRACT NEWS - OPENREACHOpenreach Contract ExpansionDriving Growth and InnovationKelly Group is pleased to confirm a significant extension to its contract with BT Openreach. Our FTTP and SD copper teams reflect below on a year of progress and collaborationThis latest agreement brings expansion to the work committed by Kelly Group across both FTTP and Copper network types and stability for our workforce. Our collaborative approach has seen our teams embraced as an integrated part of the wider Openreach family, enabling us to make huge strides and secure more complex work.Upskilling - training Kelly Group engineers in Brimsdown for MDU workstreamsThe contract extension opens the door to new and more complex workstreams. Openreach has entrusted us withTo ensure a seamless transition into the field Openreach work that is essential to the national Full Fibre rolloutis working alongside some Kelly Group engineers with such as the ongoing MDU (Multi-Dwelling Unit) trialson-the-job coaching. Openreach engineer Cezar worked in London a workstream previously managed internally bywith five Kelly Group engineers for a month, focusing on Openreach. improving the success rate of these new installations. This These MDU sites require intricate cabling and jointingcoaching covers the practical application of the InvisiLight work in communal areas, demanding a sophisticated skillfibre optic cable. set that goes beyond standard installations. Kelly Groups ability to secure and successfully execute these MDU projects is a testament to the strategic upskilling and transition of our existing workforce. To support this, we are training 40 engineers for these MDU builds at our national training facility in Brimsdown, North London.Installation of the InvisiLight fibre optic cable to a customers property Kelly Group & Openreach on-the-job coaching in a Multi Dwelling Unit (MDU)4.'