Community Energy Fortnight

Community Energy Fortnight 2025 

Join a national celebration of people-powered energy during Community Energy Fortnight 2025 (1 -14 July), with this year’s focus on a key challenge for the sector: investment.

Access to affordable, values-aligned finance is one of the biggest barriers for community energy organisations. Many projects are held back by funding gaps or struggle to scale with traditional finance models.

That’s why this year, we're spotlighting community investment — in partnership with ethical finance leaders Ethex,Thrive Renewables and Triodos Bank — to help community groups raise capital, grow impact, and build long-term resilience.

Together, we’ll be:

• Raising awareness of crowdfunding and community share offers — and showing people why their investment matters
• Encouraging more people to get involved in local energy projects as supporters, members, and funders
• Helping communities attract the funding they need to launch, grow, and own their own energy solutions

Get involved

We invite you and your organisation to get involved — share your story, showcase your impact, and help us show the power of communities coming together to invest in real change.

To help you make the most of Fortnight, we’ve launched a full suite of free resources, now available to download from our website. These include:

• A Comms Pack to help you spread the word
• An Organise an Event Toolkit
• A Social Media Toolkit for ready-made posts
• A Create a Video Toolkit to share your story
• Fortnight logos and graphics for your content - available to download from this page! 

Very soon, we’ll be sharing how you can get your events and activities listed on the official Fortnight google calendar. In the meantime, please get in touch with Kim Woodcock if you'd like to discuss your plans for the Fortnight. Make sure to tell us what you’re planning so we can help promote your events through our website, social media channels and newsletters.

Fortnight Resources

Ethex have produced a range of resources to help you get started with your investment journey: 

• Raising finance for your community energy project
• A friendly guide to community shares, IFISAs & ethical bonds
• Marketing your offer and working with Ethex