GMCR

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…

Share Offer Update We’re delighted that we’ve made a strong start to our 2019 share offer, with share applications totalling over £30,000 arriving in the first week!  It was great to receive applications from some of those people who missed out last year and we’re looking forward to welcoming them…

We marked World Environment Day with the launch of our latest share offer! We’re delighted to invite you to invest in our new community share offer to fund solar panels on two primary schools in Salford and one in Bury. This will help them save money on their bills, reduce…

Latest installation Our newest solar array at Broadoak Primary School was commissioned on 21 December 2018 and was switched on in February 2019. This brings our total installed capacity to around 220 kWp across arrays at 5 schools and 1 community building. Solar Performance Our December meter readings show that…

New installation – Peel Hall Primary School We’re delighted to share a photo of our new installation at Peel Hall Primary School. The panels were installed in the final two weeks of the summer holidays and commissioned in early September. The installation has generated 3,870kWh clean energy already! You can…

Share offer update We are delighted to have reached the halfway point after just 10 days – we’ve now raised £75,325 towards our target of £145,000 to fund solar panels for four more primary schools. We’ve been out promoting the share offer to make sure all four schools can have…

We were excited to open our new share offer on Tuesday and have been amazed by the support we’ve received for our project to install solar panels on four primary schools in Salford. We’ve already received applications for over £50,000 of shares!  To be over one third of the way…