• Celia Hawkesworth of Sustainable Kirtlington, standing outside Kirtlington Village Hall with its solar panels installed

    Grants now available to Low Carbon Hub community members

    Large grants We are offering two grants of up to £5,000 for this year’s large grants fund, available to our community group members. These grants are part of the ‘community benefit’ we return to communities.  The year’s theme is energy efficiency. We are interested in applications relating to residential, commercial and public buildings; your project…
    13 January 2018
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    Our highlights for 2017

    2017 has been a busy year with some key milestones and achievements for the Low Carbon Hub, including the completion of the Sandford Hydro project, receiving £1.2m in European Regional Development Funding and producing our first ever Social Impact Report. And there were lots of other exciting bits of news in between.  Take a look…
    13 December 2017
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    Poll results: colour for Sandford Hydro screws

    We asked and you chose a colour for the Archimedes screws at Sandford! Last week we did a poll to ask what colour we should specify for the three Archimedes screws at Sandford Hydro. With 36% of the vote the winner was Water Blue RAL 5021! If you’d like to receive occasional updates just about progress…
    20 November 2016
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    Low Carbon Hub wins UK Ashden Award

    We’ve won the world’s leading green energy award! Low Carbon Hub has won the UK Ashden Award for Sustainable Communities. Our clean energy social enterprise is a joint winner with Repowering London. The award ceremony this evening (9th June) will include winners from the UK, Africa, Indonesia, Mauritania, Asia and Central America — a truly global…
    2 June 2016