Our Low Carbon Hub Energy Champions have been creating a buzz across Oxfordshire, bringing energy advice and support to neighbourhoods across the county. In November 2022, volunteers from 14 Oxfordshire-based community groups joined Low Carbon Hub and facilitator Chris Church for a day’s training to empower them to become Energy Champions in their community.  At…

The CAPZero report was met with enthusiasm at Eynsham Village Hall, on 26 April 2023. Eynsham Smart and Fair Futures, one of the six Project LEO Smart and Fair Neighbourhood Trials, has developed a Community Action Plan for Zero Carbon Energy, for the parishes within the Eynsham Primary Substation Area. This is the first local energy action…

Low Carbon Hub were out and about at the Abingdon Eco Fair, held in the Market Place in the heart of Abingdon on Saturday 13 May. The event, organised by One Planet Abingdon, with additional support from Oxfordshire Greentech and Vale of White Horse District Council, was spread over a whole day and featured stalls…

We are pleased to announce that Low Carbon East Oxford is our Community Group of the Month for March 2023 Low Carbon East Oxford is a small, friendly group of people living in East Oxford, who came together ten years ago to take small climate positive actions in the hope of encouraging others to do…

With the cost-of-living crisis and the energy price rises making it increasingly important to heat our homes efficiently, many of our community groups are carrying out thermal imaging projects in their communities. Thermal imaging provides a visual and engaging way of introducing people in a local community to home energy efficiency and we were delighted…

What happened when nine community groups worked together with Low Carbon Hub Community Grant funding and an inspired idea? Low Carbon Hub were delighted to award a large grant and several small grants in 2022 to support Energy Saving Homes, a fantastic collaborative project between Low Carbon Oxford North, Rose Hill & Iffley Low Carbon,…

Project LEO, a unique and ambitious four-year collaborative innovation programme, celebrated the end of the project and the launch of its final report.  Project LEO, which stands for Local Energy Oxfordshire, was a multi-million-pound initiative that aimed to trial how we can create a  greener, more flexible and fair electricity system not just in Oxfordshire…

We are delighted that the Low Carbon Hub has won national recognition at the Community Energy England Awards 2022. The 2022 Community Energy England award ceremony took place this month on 20 January 2023. Our team at Low Carbon Hub were shortlisted alongside Community Energy South and Exeter Community Energy in the category Community Energy…

On 11 July I attended the first (hopefully of many) Green Futures Conference for 14-18 year olds, held at Hill End Outdoor Learning Centre to deliver a workshop on ‘how communities are investing in community energy’. The realities of our unstable climate system is an awful scenario for today’s teenagers and many of them are…

On Saturday 21 May we celebrated 10 years of partnership between the Low Carbon Hub and our 40 community group members in the atmospheric surroundings of the Story Museum, Oxford. The event was designed to be creative and celebratory and the Woodshed Theatre at the Story Museum was decorated to feel welcoming and festive. It…

The Low Carbon Hub turned 10 in December 2021. To celebrate this achievement, we’re going to be looking back at our key milestones and moments from the past decade and sharing them with you over the course of 2022. We’ve already started in our monthly newsletter, and so if you haven’t already subscribed you can…

Oxfordshire environmental groups and local councils cooperate to address the energy price crisis. All over Oxfordshire people are struggling to pay their energy bills. But so many homes are so poorly insulated that around a quarter of the energy we pay for is simply wasted. Much of that energy still comes from fossil fuels so…