• 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…
    18 April 2023
  • Oxford recognised as a Net Zero leader on climate change with new innovation project

    Oxford has been recognised as a Net Zero leader in combatting climate change, having been awarded £75,000 feasibility funding by the government to help accelerate Oxford’s transition to Net Zero. Oxford has a goal to achieve Net Zero carbon emissions across the city as a wholeby the year 2040 – ten years ahead of the…
    13 February 2023
  • 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…
    15 December 2022
  • Please support our Warmer Winter Appeal

    Low Carbon Hub has launched a Crowdfunder to support vulnerable households during the energy crisis. We’re all experiencing the threat of spiralling energy costs, but for people already struggling with the cost-of-living crisis, the rising cost of electricity and gas will leave many with stark choices to make this winter. The problem The government’s pledge…
    4 November 2022
  • Community groups win Vale of White Horse funding

    Earlier this year, the Vale of White Horse District Council invited community groups to apply for funding from its Climate Action Fund of £50,000 for projects that help to address climate change at a local level. Thirteen projects across the district were successful. Several Low Carbon Hub Community group members had successful bids, including: Sustainable…
    18 August 2022
  • Large grants awarded

    We are delighted to announce that we have awarded large grants this year to three fantastic community projects: Sustainable Wantage for Equipping Children for Cycling Mobility Thame Green Living for Thame Electric Vehicle Hire Club Low Carbon Oxford North, Rose Hill & Iffley Low Carbon and Communities for Zero Carbon Oxford for Eco Homes Oxford.…
    6 April 2022
  • “Growing in the face of challenge” – Rose Hill Tree Planting

    A short film about the Tree Planting and Community Orchard project from Rose Hill & Iffley Low Carbon. The film was made with a Small Grant of £500 from Low Carbon Hub Community Grants Fund. Low Carbon Hub were delighted to award Rose Hill & Iffley Low Carbon (RHILC) a small grant of £500 in…
    6 August 2021
  • Low Carbon Hub receives Lord Mayor of Oxford’s Climate Change Fund

    We are delighted to announce we have received £5,000 of investment into the Community Energy Fund from the Lord Mayor’s Charity Trust. During former Lord Mayor Craig Simmons’ term as Mayor (2019-21), Oxford City Council declared a climate emergency and Craig was really focused on how the city could play its part in the face…
    12 July 2021
  • Low Carbon Hub Large Grants Awarded

    Our Community Grant Fund offers financial support for carbon cutting activities across Oxfordshire. All Community Members of the Low Carbon CIC can apply for a small or large grant that can be used to fund activities that contribute to the Hub’s aims: to cut Oxfordshire’s carbon footprint and contribute to creating a decentralised and locally-owned…
    19 April 2021
  • Low Carbon Hub Small Grants Awarded

    We are pleased to announce the awarding of five Low Carbon Hub small grants of £500 each. All Community Members of the Low Carbon Hub CIC are eligible to apply for funding. Our community groups can either apply individually or in consortia with other Community shareholders. The grants can be used to fund activities that…
    23 March 2021
  • Westmill Solar Co-operative opens new Community Grants Scheme

    Demonstrating the power of locally-owned community energy projects to accelerate the UK’s low-carbon transition Westmill Solar Co-operative, the UK’s first community-owned solar farm, has opened and is accepting applications for funding up to £5,000 from its new Community Grants Scheme. The 5MW solar park has now been operating under community ownership for nearly 8 years.…
    19 August 2020
  • Coop midcounties. Regional communities. Building strong local communities.

    Three communities donate funding from carrier bag charges to Low Carbon Hub

    We were thrilled to hear that three communities in Oxfordshire offered to combine the funding raised through the carrier bag charge in their local Co-ops and donate it to our Community Benefit Fund.  Many thanks to communities involved in Banbury, Central Oxford and Kidlington & North West Oxfordshire for this donation of just over £9,000.  The…
    22 March 2019