Send your good wishes please.....

[Cindy]

The Solar Club has been shortlisted for a £100k (possibly more) award
from Greenstreets to buy kit only (they won't fund anything else).
Our plan is to use the money to buy solar thermal and PV panels for
some local community buildings and also do installations for about 24
households where they spend more than 10% of their income on fuel.
These would become showcase projects for the Solar Club to help build
our momentum.

Emily, Raph and I have to do a 10 minute pitch this Thursday 8th
October to a panel of four experts from 6.00pm and we will know the
result by 8.30pm! So it's going to be a bit like Dragon's Den I
think.

So please send us your good wishes, thoughts, prayers,
energy....anything you like as long as it's positive!

thanks
Cindy

[vinnie]

Well done, break a leg, should be a walk in the park.

Looking forward to hearing the good news

vinnie

[Joanna Wheatley]

GOOD LUCK!! I and my friends are sending you positive energy for this.
 
> Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 13:30:12 -0700
> Subject: [Transition Maidenhead] Send your good wishes please.....
> From: cindy....@greenerconsulting.com
> To: transition...@googlegroups.com

[CindyB]

Thanks everyone for your good wishes. We have bad news and good
news. The bad news is that despite a fantastic pitch, we didn't win
the regional final on Thu night. A little village from Oxfordshire
did with a great scheme for their school, church, shop and houses.
Best wishes to them.

Emily played the engineer and wore a pink hard hat with Transition
Maidenhead on the front and carried a solar panel. Rapha wore his
school uniform and talked about Maidenhead schools and the importance
of leaving a positive legacy for his generation (he's 13) and I wore
my business suit and played the business person. We had some of
Dave's CO2 balloons to demonstrate the CO2 savings from our project.
We had a short video from Rajiv - thank you for doing that.

We got there for 6pm and got home about 11pm....we're still
recovering.

The good news is that we may get a second chance because they liked
our bid so much. We will find out in mid Nov if we have been
allocated a 'wild card' submission.

We were told that ours was the best technically specified bid - well
done Emily! And the judge from the Institute for Public Policy
Research wants to visit as they were very impressed with our level of
community involvement and want to see if they can replicate our model
elsewhere.

So all in all quite positive even though we didn't win this time!

We're now looking at about another 4 grants. If anyone can help and
is good with pulling grant forms together, please shout.

Cindy

On 6 Oct, 16:35, Joanna Wheatley <joannawheat...@live.co.uk> wrote:
> GOOD LUCK!! I and my friends are sending you positive energy for this.
>
>
>
>
>
> > Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 13:30:12 -0700
> > Subject: [Transition Maidenhead] Send your good wishes please.....

> > From: cindy.bar...@greenerconsulting.com

> > To: transition...@googlegroups.com
>
> > The Solar Club has been shortlisted for a £100k (possibly more) award
> > from Greenstreets to buy kit only (they won't fund anything else).
> > Our plan is to use the money to buy solar thermal and PV panels for
> > some local community buildings and also do installations for about 24
> > households where they spend more than 10% of their income on fuel.
> > These would become showcase projects for the Solar Club to help build
> > our momentum.
>
> > Emily, Raph and I have to do a 10 minute pitch this Thursday 8th
> > October to a panel of four experts from 6.00pm and we will know the
> > result by 8.30pm! So it's going to be a bit like Dragon's Den I
> > think.
>
> > So please send us your good wishes, thoughts, prayers,
> > energy....anything you like as long as it's positive!
>
> > thanks
> > Cindy
>

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