Localgiving, the online fundraising platform for charities and groups, have a focus on delivering for Community Interest Companies (CICs) bringing them benefits and that are usually only available to larger charities. If you are a CIC or other small community organisation, then contact Localgiving to learn how they can supercharge your fundraising. The support for Magic Little Grants from People’s Postcode Lottery is coming to an end; however Localgiving will be relaunching Magic Little Grants later this year. Click here to read more. And if you have previously put in for grants,
Severn Wye Energy Agency has been working with Herefordshire Council to deliver £7m in government grants to improve the energy efficiency of Herefordshire homes and make them warmer and healthier. The good news is that the income threshold has now increased to £36,000 per household. You may qualify for fully funded energy efficiency improvements if you: live in Herefordshire; your home has an energy performance rating of D, E, F or G; you don’t have mains gas heating in your home; and your total household income is under £36,000. Find out more on the Talk Community Directory listing
29/03/2024
The most recent HGN Building Sense webinar about Herefordshire Council’s new Home Energy Savers scheme is now on the HGN website. Here is the link to the recording so you can watch it or watch it again. Our speaker Gareth Ellis has also prepared a list of useful links, which you’ll find below. If you’d like the slides please email buildingsense@hgnetwork.org Do check out our events page for links to our other event recordings on a wide range of retrofit-related topics. And if you’d like to become a
The Marches Energy Grant (MEG) offers free advice, energy assessments and grants for energy efficiency and renewable energy measures to SMEs and organisations owning community buildings from all sectors in Herefordshire, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin. Grants worth up to £20,000 are available for eligible businesses.
Big Solar Co-op, a not-for-profit, carbon-first and volunteer-led organisation whose first large rooftop solar installation was on the Herefordshire borders at Tenbury, has now installed a second large roof mounted system, this time in Cambridgeshire. Big Solar Co-op is progressing some 480 other potential sites on large rooftops across the UK. The buildings range from doctors’ surgeries to community buildings, leisure centres, large shops and other medium and large businesses. Big Solar Co-op was established (by Shrewsbury-based Shareenergy)to help deal with the obstacles that small community energy schemes face in the current climate. Anyone can join, and the
15/03/2024
Home Energy Savers Webinar — new from Herefordshire Council Tuesday 19th March 12:45pm Click here to find out more and book on Eventbrite A brand new scheme to fund home energy assessments and to fund recommended retrofit works! The Home Energy Savers initiative is for households that want to make energy improvements to their homes but whose income means they don’t qualify for support from the national Home Upgrade Grant or some other incentives. It’s open to those with a household income over £36,000 per annum, and/or with disposable income available to spend on measures for their homes.
An exciting opportunity for rural communities in the South West, South Wales and the Midlands. Regen is working with National Grid Electricity Distribution on an innovation project focused on the decarbonisation of rural areas. REACH: Rural Energy and Community Heat. The project has been funded by network users and consumers under the Strategic Innovation Fund, an Ofgem programme managed in partnership with UKRI. The goal is to find 5-10 rural communities to work with over the next 2 months to co-create innovative approaches for meeting the local area’s decarbonisation ambitions. These will then be taken forward into a second round of project
