GMCR

Community businesses who meet the following eligibility criteria can apply to the Co-operatives UK Booster Fund: There are two types of funding: A Development Grant to get your share offer ready and to promote it, and the Equity Match which will match fund some of your share capital.   Both these…

In 2025, GMCR successfully raised £187,000 in community shares in order to fund solar panels on 3 schools and a community centre.  This is made up of £162,000 raised from the community and c. £25,000 from the Co-operatives UK Booster Fund. But how did we do it? You can read…

We’re thrilled to announce that we have launched a solar panel competition to help local communities benefit from the low carbon, low cost electricity provided by solar panels. Using funding from our GMCR Community Fund, we are inviting charities to apply for up to £10,000 towards the purchase and installation…

We’re thrilled to share the exciting news that we’ve successfully completed our 2025 share offer! As of 14th August, we’d received share applications totalling £161,250.  We’re also proud to announce that we’ve been offered £25,782 in equity match investment from the Community Shares Booster Fund, which is delivered by Co-operatives…

In July we held a series webinars as part of Community Energy England’s Community Energy Fortnight. The webinars provided an overview of community energy, GMCR and importantly, how someone can involved in the community energy movement through our 2025 share offer. Drawing on our 10 successful years of working in…

Hello! We bring this newsletter to flag our upcoming webinar and some positive updates on our 2025 Share Offer campaign. Join our webinar on Tuesday 8th July We’re hosting our second webinar on Tuesday 8th July. Join us from 1pm as we introduce community energy, GMCR and our 2025 Share…

Hello and welcome to this special edition of our newsletter Minimum investment target smashed! Firstly, we’re thrilled to say that we have ALREADY surpassed the minimum investment target for our share offer. This means that we have enough money to install at least one solar array this summer! We’re still…

Hello Today is a special day as we officially open our 2025 Share Offer. In this share offer, our fifth to date, we are seeking £250,000 to fund solar arrays on four sites in Salford, Trafford and Manchester.  Building on the successful track record of our project over the past…

Local social enterprise, Greater Manchester Community Renewables (GMCR), has launched a new share offer to fund solar arrays on two special schools in Salford, a primary school in Manchester and a leisure centre in Trafford. If successful, this will result in the installation of over 600 solar panels. In the…

Wishing you a very happy World Environment Day! We have some exciting news to share… New share offer coming soon We’re thrilled to announce that we will be opening a new share offer later this month!  This round of investment could see us install 350 kWp of solar arrays on…

Hello, we hope you are well in these mid winter months. Spring bulbs are starting to bud and the days are getting longer (leaving the Dunkleflaute behind for a while!). Here’s a summary of what we’ve been up to over the last few months and what to look out for…