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Update on 2019 installations Our solar arrays at Monton Green, Springwood and Chesham primary schools were successfully registered for the Feed-in Tariff by the end of March 2020 deadline. All the sites are now generating electricity. However, export metering at Chesham and Springwood is not yet in place due to…

We hope that this news cheers you up in these difficult times. First Community Fund Award We were pleased to hand over a cheque for £1,000 to Fiddlers Lane Primary School. The school plans to spend the grant on recycling facilities and on cameras so the children can see what’s…

*** APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED *** We are seeking a consultant to design and deliver a programme of community engagement to provide energy saving advice Project milestones and timescales Project start: From May 2020 Initial conversations with sites completed: 30 June 2020 Activity programme drawn up and collateral identified / developed:…

Greater Manchester Community Renewables (GMCR) has awarded a grant of £1,000 to Fiddlers Lane Primary School in Irlam.  The school was one of the first to benefit from the community-owned solar panels installed on their roof by GMCR. The cheque was handed over to Sarah Cooper, Head Teacher, by Kate…

Award Win We’re delighted to have won the Community Energy Photo Award with our photo of children from Irlam Primary School and Fiddlers Lane Primary School.  It was taken by Bill McLaughlin at the event we organised to celebrate the installation of our solar arrays on their school roofs.  Also…

Award Nomination In exciting news, GMCR has been shortlisted for the Community Energy photo award! Our photo shows children from Irlam Primary School and Fiddlers Lane Primary School at the event we organised to celebrate the installation of our solar arrays on their school roofs. Also pictured are GMCR volunteers,…

In Part 1, we saw a huge mind map that pupils at Peel Hall Primary School had drawn about climate change when working with Manchester Environmental Education Network (MEEN). Following this, the pupils declared they needed to be ambassadors for climate change in order to help change people’s behaviour and…

          GMCR installed solar panels on the roof of Peel Hall Primary School in summer 2018.  You can see how much electricity the solar panels have generated this week here. As well as generating clean energy and saving carbon, GMCR’s solar panels have become an educational…

In March 2019 over 60 people from community energy groups, public and private sectors, and local and national charities, contributed to the development of a Community Energy Vision and Action Plan for Greater Manchester. This event was organised as part of the European COALESCCE project. Read our 5 year vision…

We’re delighted to announce that we reached our share offer target of £100,000 on Friday evening and we have therefore closed the share offer to new applications. Thanks so much to everyone who has invested and all of you who made the time to promote the project and share it…

Last Wednesday, two of our directors joined the thousands of people who travelled to London for The Time is Now – the largest ever mass lobby of MPs calling for urgent action on the climate and ecological emergency. One of the things we were calling for was more support for…

If you’ve been keeping an eye on the Invest page, you’ll have seen that our share offer to raise funds for solar panels on 3 more schools has now reached £68,150! It’s great to be two thirds of the way to our £100,000 target.  We were delighted to be invited…