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Community Group of the Month: Chinnor & Thame Friends of the Earth
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, […]
Community Grants Fund: Large Grant Awards April 2023
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 […]
Community group of the month: Low Carbon East Oxford
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 […]
Low Carbon Hub Thermal Imaging Training workshop with Dale Hoyland, 28 February, County Hall, Oxford.
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 […]
Energy Saving Homes 2022
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, […]
Community Group of the month: Sustainable Harwell
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 […]
Community group of the month: Sustainable Botley
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 […]
Equipping Children to Embed Cycling in their Lives
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 […]
Community Group of the Month: One Planet Clanfield
We are delighted that One Planet Clanfield is our community group of the month for October 2022. Clanfield is a beautiful village in West Oxfordshire with around 800 residents, a thriving primary school, a café/bakery, a popular pub, and a hotel. One Planet Clanfield was set up in 2020 by an enthusiastic group of volunteers […]
Energy Saving Bite Sized Films launch
The launch of Communities for Zero Carbon Oxford’s Energy Saving Bite Sized films took place during Great Big Green Week at the Town Hall, Oxford on 27 September 2022. The films form a vital part of the Energy Saving Homes project, carried out by a group of nine environmental community group members of Low Carbon […]
Great Big Energy Saver, Eynsham Great Big Green Week 2022
Green TEA, Low Carbon Hub and Project LEO (Local Energy Oxfordshire), organised the Great Big Energy Saver event during Great Big Green Week, held at St Leonard’s Church Hall on Thursday 27 September, from 4pm to 9pm. Green TEA are working with Low Carbon Hub on Smart and Fair Futures as part of Project LEO, […]
Community Group of the Month: Sustainable Kirtlington
We are delighted to announce that Sustainable Kirtlington is our September 2022 Community Group of the month. Kirtlington is a calm and beautiful village just north of Oxford that is blessed with a small but active community group that thinks big. It’s always a pleasure to visit the Sustainable Kirtlington team to see the results […]