Our Powering Communities Fund Helps Community Energy Groups Thrive

It’s no secret that community energy groups need more backing to grow and amplify their social impact projects. That’s exactly why we created the Powering Communities Fund – a grant of up to £3,750 to help turn these projects into reality.

Being eligible is easy – all you need is to be a community energy group or organisation with a current or upcoming Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with us, or have used our Kickstart Loan facility.

Check out the incredible projects we've supported over the years!

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Here's How It All Works

This grant funding is possible through our partnership with Your Co-op Energy. We believe businesses and homes should be powered by community-produced energy.

So, for every new customer that switches to their Community Power Tariff, we’ll add £10 to the Powering Communities Fund pot. No questions, no quibbles - we love doing it.

Each year, we’ll dip into this pot and provide grants to help community groups develop and deliver their social impact projects.

So far we've had six rounds of funding and given out £65,000, helping to take 21 different projects to the next level.

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Don't have a Power Purchase Agreement with us?

We buy renewable energy from over 350 community energy projects across the UK, regardless of the size of the generation.

Interested? One of our expert Community Renewable Managers will provide your group with a bespoke, fair market price.

Learn more about our bespoke PPAs

Our Powering Communities Fund is now closed until 2026 — but don’t worry, it’ll be back next year! In the meantime, why not take a look at some of our past winners for a bit of inspiration?

Apply for the fund

Complete this form to register your interest in applying for the Powering Communities Fund.