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Boosting Community Engagement Across the County
North Lincolnshire Community EnergyNorth Lincolnshire Community Energy (NLCE) used support from the Powering Communities Fund to expand its engagement with the local community, delivering a wide range of free activities focused on sustainability and community energy.
Project overview
The support allowed NLCE to run events that were welcoming and accessible to everyone.
This accessibility is key to creating energy futures that are fair and representative for all....something we’re always keen to support.
About the project
A Packed Programme of Community Events
With the funding, NLCE delivered more than 20 engagement sessions across the local area.
Working alongside the Incredible Edible group and the Co-op, the team hosted gardening workshops focused on sustainable growing and building a greener future. The grant allowed them to provide food plants for community planters, helping improve access to green spaces and fresh produce while encouraging conversations about sustainability.
They also ran four Climate Café conversations across two venues. These professionally facilitated sessions gave local residents a welcoming space to discuss climate issues, share ideas and explore ways they could take action in their own lives. Participants left with individual action plans and ideas for collective action.
In addition, four solar robotics workshops were delivered in partnership with youth groups and local families. Fully booked, these sessions engaged more than 40 children and adults, exploring solar power and simple turbine models to demonstrate how renewable energy works.
The Younity Grant has made an incredible difference to our community engagement work. It has enabled us to deliver group sessions to a wide and diverse range of participants and promote education around sustainability and community energy
Creativity, Community and Sustainable Living
The project also explored sustainability beyond energy as it supported Scunthorpe’s first recycled clothes swap, delivered alongside Pre-Loved Humber & Lincs. The four-hour event focused on swapping children’s clothing, helping families save money while reducing waste.
A screening of the community energy documentary We The Power also brought residents together to learn more about local energy projects and even led to three new members joining NLCE.
Alongside these activities, the group ran pop-up stalls at locations including North Lincolnshire Museum and St John’s Market, introducing more residents to the idea of community energy.
NLCE are proud of what they’ve achieved so far, and the project has helped place community energy firmly on the local map, building momentum that they hope will continue long into the future.