Case Studies
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| Title | Description | Category | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
Unveiling a completed project |
Westmill Wind Farm Co-operative combined their AGM, an open day and the official unveiling of their wind farm into a single event. The AGM began... more |
Launching a project | UK |
Launch event with a follow up drop-in |
Dingwall Wind Co-op's launch event was well planned with an evening event followed by a drop-in the next day. The venue (Dingwall Auction Mart)... more |
Launching a project | UK |
Setting up a charity and a society |
Low Carbon West Oxford decided to become constituted as a formal organisation in order to maintain and build the community’s trust, seeing this... more |
Legal structure | UK |
Setting up a company |
The Big Lemon, a sustainable community bus service in Brighton, is a Community Interest Company (CIC) limited by shares. This means it can sell... more |
Legal structure | UK |
Setting up a co-operative |
Cloughjordan Ecovillage was conceived as a model for future development, an educational project dedicated to environmental protection and to... more |
Legal structure | Ireland |
Setting up a co-operative |
The regional association for the development of solidarity economy (ARDES) initiated a project to deliver community funded solar panels on... more |
Legal structure | France |
Securing loan funding |
Given the total cost of Plaine Sud Energies’ solar panel project (more than 200 000€), the group sought different sources of funding to implement... more |
Loans | France |
Loan funding for pre-planning work |
Bath and West Community Energy raised £1 million of debt finance from SSE, which included £200,000 as a contingent loan (at the time a SSE one-... more |
Loans | UK |
Games and demonstrations |
Sustainable Wantage held a stall at the local Dickensian evening during the Christmas period. They found that having demo mini solar panels and... more |
Local events | UK |
