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 and Thrive Renewables — 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

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.

This year's Fortnight logo and graphics are already available to download on this page. A comms pack and toolkit with resources to help you take part will be available soon. 

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 add your activities to our content calendar and help promote your events through our website, social media channels and newsletters.