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! 

New for 2025! Shared google calendar

Want to see what’s already planned or add your own event? Browse the new Fortnight 2025 shared google calendar and submit your own event via this form. Once approved by us, your event will automatically be added to the calendar for everyone to see!

You can also add your fortnight event to our website and it will feature on the Fortnight web page right here (below). Submit your event here and select ''community energy fortnight events'' from the drop down list. 

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, in collaboration with Community Energy England, 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

We’ve worked with Ethex to produce these toolkits and organise a series of online events because we want to ensure our members have the practical tools, knowledge, and confidence they need to raise investment, scale up their operations, and build long-term capacity. By supporting your ability to access ethical finance and effectively market your projects, we aim to empower the sector to grow and deliver greater impact in communities across the country.