The Cross-sector Safety and Security Communications (CSSC) initiative, was founded in June 2011 by a team of senior security experts, with the aim of building a messaging platform, to facilitate communications between the private and public sectors, on issues surrounding security and business resilience. In August 2013 full charitable status was secured for CSSC, which is now registered under charity number 1153764. The charity’s objectives are stated as: To promote for the public benefit, in partnership with the police, law enforcement agencies and other relevant bodies and organisations, the protection of people and property from, and the prevention of, criminal acts in particular but not exclusively by the provision of a national communication vehicle between the public and private sectors, providing information on all relevant security matters. The CSSC Board of Trustees oversees the running of the charity overall, with region-specific management boards set up for each individual hub. Regional operational teams, seconded from both public and private sector bodies, handle the day-to-day running of each hub. CSSC builds on existing and specialist successful and proven security networks such as ‘Project Griffin’ in the security sector and ‘Sister Banks’ in the finance sector. The aim being to provide the means for the police and government to communicate with the wider private sector businesses of all sizes, with authoritative messages, alerts and information on safety and security, as well as to receive feedback from business on the security issues important to them.