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We were delighted to join Salix Finance on their Decarbonisation Dialogue podcast. Director Tudor Baker spoke about community energy and how GMCR have been helping to reduce carbon emissions with solar panels on school roofs. You can read more about the podcast and listen back via the links on the…

This week local MP and green energy champion Afzal Khan visited our newest site, the Divine Mercy RC Primary in Moss Side, Manchester. Mr Khan met with the school’s eco warriors to hear about the actions they’re taking to make the site more sustainable such as their on-site composting system…

Greater Manchester Community Renewables (GMCR) has awarded £15,000 to three organisations to deliver environmental projects in Greater Manchester via their Community Fund Three community groups will benefit from a total of just under £15,000 toward environmental projects in Greater Manchester via the GMCR Community Fund. The three successful projects are:…

Spring is here following one of the wettest winters on record and we’re glad to see the sunshine!  The team has been as busy as ever in Q1 2026 and we’re excited to share the latest updates here as we look ahead to the rest of 2026. Read on to…

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 delighted to share some brilliant news —we’ve successfully powered up another school with clean, community-owned solar energy! Thanks to the amazing support of our community, we raised almost £200,000 in our latest share offer. This has already enabled us to install 166 solar panels at The Divine Mercy RC…

Good news! Last year, we installed the new solar array at The Divine Mercy RC Primary School.

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…

We had the pleasure to join Radio Alty’s The Earth Show to chat about community energy, GMCR and our 2025 Share Offer. Watch and listen back on YouTube. Big thanks to Elysia for having us on, we really enjoyed it. You can subscribe to The Earth Show on Youtube.