That’s the message from Sustainable Wantage’s Draughtbusting team, who recently shared their experience of setting up their Draughtbusters project in Wantage, with other Low Carbon Hub and CAG community groups from across Oxfordshire, at a meeting at County Hall, Oxford.   The evening was hosted by Low Carbon Hub, CAG Network and Oxfordshire County Council Retrofit…

We are delighted to welcome Hook Norton Community Land Trust as our community group of the month for May/June 2023.  At a time of climate emergency, when many new housing developments lack sustainable measures, the people of Hook Norton set up Hook Norton Community Land Trust (HNCLT) to develop an innovative community-led project of affordable…

The CAPZero report was met with enthusiasm at Eynsham Village Hall, on 26 April 2023. Eynsham Smart and Fair Futures, one of the six Project LEO Smart and Fair Neighbourhood Trials, has developed a Community Action Plan for Zero Carbon Energy, for the parishes within the Eynsham Primary Substation Area. This is the first local energy action…

Low Carbon Hub were out and about at the Abingdon Eco Fair, held in the Market Place in the heart of Abingdon on Saturday 13 May. The event, organised by One Planet Abingdon, with additional support from Oxfordshire Greentech and Vale of White Horse District Council, was spread over a whole day and featured stalls…

We are pleased to welcome Chinnor & Thame Friends of the Earth as our community group of the month for April 2023.  Chinnor and Thame Friends of the Earth are a long-established group that formed in 1989 to campaign for change in the community, to make a positive difference to the environment at a local,…

It’s been a bumper year for Low Carbon Hub large grant applications and we’re delighted to announce that we have awarded large grants to five of our community group members to support a diverse range of fantastic community projects:  Our Community Grant Fund offers financial support for community energy activities across Oxfordshire. All Community Members…

We are pleased to announce that Low Carbon East Oxford is our Community Group of the Month for March 2023 Low Carbon East Oxford is a small, friendly group of people living in East Oxford, who came together ten years ago to take small climate positive actions in the hope of encouraging others to do…

With the cost-of-living crisis and the energy price rises making it increasingly important to heat our homes efficiently, many of our community groups are carrying out thermal imaging projects in their communities. Thermal imaging provides a visual and engaging way of introducing people in a local community to home energy efficiency and we were delighted…

What happened when nine community groups worked together with Low Carbon Hub Community Grant funding and an inspired idea? Low Carbon Hub were delighted to award a large grant and several small grants in 2022 to support Energy Saving Homes, a fantastic collaborative project between Low Carbon Oxford North, Rose Hill & Iffley Low Carbon,…

We are delighted that our community group of the month for February 2023 is Sustainable Harwell. Sustainable Harwell is a community action group that began in 2019 in Harwell village, working on sustainability projects to help tackle climate change, reduce waste and pollution, and improve the local environment. They are members of CAG Oxfordshire and became…

We are thrilled to announce that our community group of the month for January 2023 is Sustainable Botley. They joined the Low Carbon Hub in 2022 and became our 40th CIC community group member. Sustainable Botley is a recently formed community group of volunteers, based in Botley in the parish of North Hinksey, West of…

If you are looking for a grant project that encourages children to love cycling at an early stage and can be replicated in your community, then this is it.   We were delighted to award a large grant to Sustainable Wantage from the Low Carbon Hub Community Grants Fund in March 2022.   They had the inspired…