FW: Staffordshire sunny schools roadshow in Stafford this Thursday
Tim Atkinson
Hello all,
It's not a Friends of the Earth project, but I thought you might find this roadshow on a community energy investment scheme in Stafford this coming Thursday of interest.
Details about the event and information about the project are below.
Best
Tim
Sent: 15 January 2014 16:15
To: Tim Atkinson
Subject: Staffordshire sunny schools
I hope your well,
It was great meeting you last Wednesday evening and I hope you enjoyed the presentation on the Staffordshire Sunny Schools Project.
We've got the second roadshow booked for 23rd Jan 7.30pm Gatehouse Theatre, Mountbatten Suite, Eastgate Street, Stafford ST16 2LT - any help getting this out and up to full capacity would be greatly appreciated!
Plus please see below for a short summary of the project and a one pager attached, if your happy to send out to friends/contacts and help spread the word for the largest community owned solar schools project.
Plus it would be really good to get FOE Staffordshire involved in the campaign if there is interest?
Happy to discuss on the phone or when next up in Staffordshire.
Best regards and many thanks,
Jamie
Gen Community a social enterprise which develops low carbon projects for social benefit has launched a community share offer to fund a solar schools project across Staffordshire. This initiative follows on from their first project, the Newport Solar Share Offer. Gen Community offer investing members a fair financial return with social and environmental impacts.
Prospective members are invited to review the share offer, which offers a projected 6.9% IRR, index linked return. The project was granted Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) status on 7th January 2014, enabling eligible investors to claim 30% of investment against their income tax. The projected share return with EIS relief is a 10.48% IRR.
http://www.gen-community.co.uk/share_offer/
The project, when fully funded, will deploy solar PV systems on 25 schools and significantly reduce the school's energy bills, forecasted over £90,000 per annum. The project will also fund a sustainability education tool, incorporated into the school’s curriculum which will benefit the lives of over 15,000 school children across Staffordshire.
The project is being developed through a collaboration of Gen Community with Southern Staffordshire Community Energy, a Staffordshire based community energy group, who will be assisting in the deployment of the community fund which the project will generate.
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James Mansfield
Director
Generation Community Limited
m: 07747 335841
t: 0207 6115285
www.gen-community.co.uk
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Roger Oldfield
STAFFORD GREEN DRINKS
7.30, Tuesday, 10 June
The Sun Inn, Stafford
(‘our’ table in the room on the far right)
STAFFORD’S GREEN HOT SPOTS
HOW CAN WE PROMOTE THEM?
What sort of alternative Stafford do we seek?
What signs of it are there now?
How do we publicise and spread them?
Roger will start off a discussion on presenting Stafford’s green hot spots to a wider public:
· biodiversity initiatives such as the bee-friendly meadow on Astonfield Road/Sandon Road
· food-growing in gardens and on allotments
· the Housing Co-operative, the Credit Union,
· Back to Bikes, charity shops, Suma groups
· Save Your Energy, Warmer Holmcroft, Stafford Community Solar ………………
and more
Roger Oldfield
‘We Staffordians should be grateful that one of the top guys in FOE England is not only willing to come and talk to the whole of Stafford U3A group (in October) but is also prepared to come (next Monday) and sort out what we feel the subject area of his speech should be.’ John Gale
2.00 pm - 3.30/4.00 pm. Monday 21 July
County Staff Club, Stafford
You are invited to this session with Chris Crean (Campaigns Director, West Midlands Friends of the Earth),
organised by the Stafford U3A 'What on Earth?' group.
How can he support us in Stafford?
How should he approach the task of addressing a meeting for all U3A members on October 1 on the subject 'How can Stafford be made greener?' Up to 200 might attend.
Roger Oldfield rold...@btopenworld.com Kathryn Greenhalgh 01785 614878
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