Funding and other support for Community Groups Phil Davies Environmental Services Manager.

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Funding and other support for Community Groups Phil Davies Environmental Services Manager

Overview ● Sources of funding for Community Groups ● Sources of additional support for Community Groups ● Sources of further information

Rural/ Urban Community Energy Fund (R/UCEF) ● Government funded programmes ● Aims of the funds ● Enable communities to access benefit of renewable energy schemes ● Support communities to maximise income from RE and use this to work for their communities ● Help move towards the governments target for RE and commitment to promote community owned RE schemes ● Removing barriers, for example up front costs of feasibility work and getting an investment ready business plan ● RCEF open to Communities in England with less than 10,000 population ● UCEF open to Communities in England with more than 10,000 population ● Two Stages ● Stage 1 – applications for grant for Initial Feasibility Study ● Stage 2 – applications for loan to progress planning and permitting applications and to secure finance/grants/investment for development ● Five communities in Cumbria already have stage one funding in place ● Lots of interest elsewhere

R/UCEF Stage One Grant(1) ● Initial Feasibility Grant For those communities at an early stage of exploring the possibility of a renewable energy ● grants of up to a maximum of £20,000 ● covers consultancy and professional costs for the development of an initial feasibility report in a standard format ● The work undertaken at this stage will identify whether there is an appropriate technology for the area in which the community is situated, and suitable land available on which to develop it. ● Groups will also begin to understand the likely level of demand from the community, appraise the likelihood of gaining planning consent and develop an initial financial forecast.

R/UCEF Stage One Grant(2) ● Who can apply? ● Legally constituted community organisations, for example Community Interest Company, Industrial Provident Society, Parish Council ● What type of technology? ● Wind, hydro, solar PV / Thermal, Ground and Air source heat pumps, Anaerobic Digestion, Biomass, Gas combined heat and power ● Community Benefit and Support ● What can be funded? ● Professional services – NOT for capital expenditure on kit

RCEF Stage Two Loan (1) ● Once you have a successful feasibility study and support from your community for your project you can progress to stage two ● RCEF offers a loan of up to £130,000 to progress ideas to submitting planning and permitting applications, and to secure finance/grants/investment for development ● Loan is repayable (with a premium) if all consents and finance are secured

R/UCEF Stage Two Loan (2) ● A Stage Two Loan would cover: ● Detailed investigation into the chosen technology ● Securing a site (legal fees for example) ● Environmental Impact Assessments ● full planning applications ● Permitting applications (abstraction licences for example) ● Developing a full investment business plan and seeking finance ● Project management

R/UCEF Stage Two Loan (3) ● For projects which achieve planning permission and attract capital investment the loan will be repayable, with a premium, once finance has been secured. ● If the project cannot, for genuine reasons, be taken forward then loans maybe written off.

Support for North West Communities ● Community Energy England ● Peer mentoring support ● Local Renewable Energy companies and consultants ● Other???

Support for Cumbrian Communities ● Sustain Eden Community Support via CAfS staff ● Community Energy Cumbria? ● Rural Cumbria Connects consortium

For more information about RCEF please visit plication-and-guidance-rcef For more information on Community Energy England, please visit For further Information about CAfS support for communities in Eden, please contact For further information about Rural Cumbria Connects consortium please contact Reiver Renewables on

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