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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 […]
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. In these difficult times, the climate emergency is still looming and the need for this […]
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 […]
Over £720,000 of investment raised in latest round of the Community Energy Fund
We are thrilled to announce that the 2019 round of our Community Energy Fund raised £726,650 in investment to support community energy in Oxfordshire. We’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who chose to invest in us and put their money to work tackling climate change. In addition to investment raised through […]
Low Carbon Hub and partners win bid to bring home retrofit project to Oxfordshire
We are really pleased to announce we have led a winning consortium bid with the Department for Business, Energy and Industry Strategy (BEIS) to lay the foundations for developing a home retrofit scheme in Oxfordshire. Delivering the project will be the Low Carbon Hub, the National Energy Foundation which is already active in the county providing the […]-
£1m fund created to power community-run energy
Low Carbon Hub has joined forces with an expert consortium of partners in a new project called The Next Generation, a fund to develop new decentralised, decarbonised, and democratised energy business models. The Next Generation fund will provide grants of up to £100,000 to ten community energy groups to work on new business models for […] 
Grants now available to Low Carbon Hub community members
Large grants We are offering two grants of up to £5,000 for this year’s large grants fund, available to our community group members. These grants are part of the ‘community benefit’ we return to communities. The year’s theme is energy efficiency. We are interested in applications relating to residential, commercial and public buildings; your project […]
Our Community Grants in Action: Watchfield Village Hall solar
As well as providing help and advice, Low Carbon Hub also offers financial support to our community shareholder groups wanting to carry out carbon-cutting activity in their community. Here is a case study of what one group did with a small grant we awarded them. Westmill Sustainable Energy Trust (WeSET) was one of the last community groups to successfully […]