Share Offers

South East London Community Energy - Solar Share Offer

SELCE are seeking to raise £33,000 to pay for the installation of solar photo voltaic (PV) panels at the Invicta Primary School in Blackheath. Over the 20 years of the project, we estimate that the school will making savings of £109,496 on its energy bills and prevent over 113 tonnes of CO2 emissions

These investments will:

• Help a local school to direct more funds towards education and amenities for their staff, students and wider communities.
• Help Selce to make fuel poverty a thing of the past. 
• Reduce carbon emissions locally by powering up with solar panels.

Find out more details in the linked share offer document. 

Kent Community Energy Renewable energy - Community Shares

Kent Community Energy have a withdrawable Community Shares open on Ethex. They are looking to raise £400,000 to fund a programme of 490kW of rooftop solar projects on six community buildings across Kent. The projects include a mental health charity, an old age and dementia hub, council buildings, a heritage steam railway, a community hall and a secondary college. Projects are located across the county and save on average 50% of the hosts electrical consumption and up to 25% of their electricity bills. Profits from the business ventures will be dedicated to our already active grant programme, increasing our grant capacity from £15,000 a year to around £30,000. Investors can invest from as little as £100 to as much as £100,000 and the shares offer an annual return of 6%. KCE has an existing 5MW ground mounted solar farm and an ongoing pipeline of 1.5MW of large and small-scale rooftop projects.

Shropshire and Telford Community Energy (STCE) - The Twemlows Solar Farm second share offer is now open!

Shropshire and Telford Community Energy (STCE) is aiming to raise extra share capital to carry out the next step of securing the Twemlows Solar Farm nr Whitchurch.

STCE is looking to raise around £500,000 through this share offer, adding to the £294,000 we raised in 2023.  They are offering a target interest rate of 6% per year on these shares and expect to be able to repay the  share capital within 11 years. STCE have already paid out the first 6% interest to their initial investors but future payments are not guaranteed.  

STCE purchased Twemlows, near Whitchurch, in December 2023 with some cheap long-term Senior finance and a relatively expensive short-term Junior Loan. This share offer will enable STCE to strengthen their position as a local leader in Community Energy. 

Grimsby Community Energy - Community Share Offer

Over the last eight years Grimsby Community Energy have raised £444,732 of investment to deliver renewable energy across Grimsby, Cleethorpes and North East Lincolnshire, installing 534kW of solar PV (photovoltaic) panels for community organisations, generating 157MWh of clean electricity and saving 184t of CO2.

This place-based approach to energy generation means local community organisations pay less for their energy and everyone who invests in Grimsby Community Energy has a vote in the running of our society. 

This new share offer is an ‘open offer’ without a closing date, so that people can support them financially whenever they are able to.

You can invest from as little as £100 (option for instalments) up to a maximum of £80,000 to help them raise £500,000 and achieve their target of one megawatt of solar PV for Grimsby. 

Congleton Community Solar - BECOME A GREEN INVESTOR

DVCE-CP (Dane Valley Community Energy-Congleton Park Ltd) is embarking on a new renewable energy initiative to harness power from roof based solar panels which we will install on schools and commercial properties in Congleton, wider Cheshire and North Staffordshire.

The project will reduce energy costs for participating sites including schools as well as provide an educational resource to increase environmental and sustainability awareness.

Surplus funds will also benefit local community projects. 

This is an opportunity for you to generate a projected 5% return on your investment and have your capital returned over 15 years. You can invest from £100 to £50,000 (institutional investors can invest up to £100,000). Our aim is to raise £530,000. The offer will close at the end of October 2023. 

For a share offer and business plan including full details of the project, benefits and risks we invite you to visit www.congletonsolar.co.uk or click on the link below.

* Our hydro scheme has generated 380 MWh of green electricity in under 2 years of operation and has already raised £9000 to community projects.  We are proud that the UK government chose to use our scheme as the poster child for its new £10M development fund to support community energy. 

Grimsby Community Energy's 4th community share offer

Grimsby Community Energy's 4th community share offer is now open for investment. Their offer is to fund solar PV installations at the CATCH Industrial Training Centre, and at YMCA Humber's Orwell Street building.

Grimsby Community Energy are a cooperative, run by members, who are dedicated to bringing community energy projects to their local area. With solar PV already operating at E-Factor, St Andrew's Hospice and the new YMCA Humber building on Freeman Street, they are now looking to build on their success.

Big Solar Co-op Share Offer

Why doesn't every big roof have solar? The Big Solar Co-op is on a mission to solarise the Uk, one rooftop at a time. We have an always-open rolling share offer to finance our ambitious program of new installations on big rooftops across the UK. We've now got over 40 new sites signed up and ready to build, from children's nurseries to steelworks, leisure centres to historic buildings - we just need more members to invest so we can deliver these and focus on the next round (already coming thick and fast).
A few key facts:

• Big Solar Co-op's focus is on solar that's not getting built but needs to be - large rooftops, small ground-mount (on appropriate sites)
• Our target interest rate is 5% (or 2% above base rate where that's higher)
• We're committed to make it as easy as possible for members to withdraw capital when they need to
• You can opt to reinvest your interest (to help build more solar - and so your returns are more like compound interest in a bank)
• We have a very strong ethical policy - we pay a significant premium for our low-carbon solar panels that don't source raw materials from areas implicated in forced labour

Whether or not you invest, you could join us - we are majority-owned by our Volunteer Members who pay £1 for membership. We can train you to find, design, and deliver solar. Do you have a favourite local big roof? Work with other volunteers from across the UK to make it happen - we've already helped several people to make this happen in their communities, sometimes in places that don't have existing community energy groups.

Brighton Energy Cooperative

Brighton Energy Coop have launched their latest share offer - to fund 578kWp of new community-owned solar PV at Rathfinny Wine Estate in Sussex.

They have teamed up with Rathfinny - the latest of our more than 40 solar landlords - to host nearly 2000 solar panels. This will be BEC's biggest solar system to date and will generate power for the winery buildings, shop and accommodation. 

Bath and West Community Energy

Bath and West Community Energy have a share offer which supports them to deliver clean local energy, community-owned for the common good.