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Reading Community Energy Society has launched a new Share Offer to raise additional capital to extend its portfolio of Solar PV Systems and increase the positive impact it is having in the Reading area.
Building on the success of three previous Share Offers, this new Share Offer seeks to raise £207,000 to fund the installation of a huge 609 solar PV panels on the Reading Buses Depot building on Great Knolly’s Street. This will increase their capacity by more than a third, increasing the carbon impact savings, and generating more for their community benefit fund.
The Share Offer is open until 30th June 2026. The minimum investment amount is £200, and the maximum is £20,000.
Download the information package (link below) to see the expected interest rates to be paid over the expected 20 year investment, and proposals to repay some of the capital earlier than this. Local people (RG postcodes) will get priority for this investment
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A wide range of events are already up on Eventbrite for the Reading Climate Festival in June. It ranges from energy efficiency drop-in weekends through a Community Lunch to a paddleboarding litter pick!
As usual, finding anything on eventbrite is both long and incomprehensibly complicated, so please bookmark the site collection using the url below, and go back to it over the next couple of weeks for updates!
If you are not involved in an event already, please offer your services to Reading Hydro to help with the energy efficiency drop-in weekend 20/21 June at the bicycle hub in the town centre. Energy advisors are welcome of course, but even more help is needed with IT, marketing, shunting furniture, refreshments ..... contact Austin if you could spare some time (it doesn't have to be two days!) on reading.hydro.innovation@gmail.com
Read more >>Some of you have come across the National Emergency Briefings given to over 1,200 politicians and leaders from business, culture, faith, sport, and the media last November.
Each speaker gave a ten-minute presentation and explained in detail the risks the climate and nature crises pose to the UK, including impacts on food security, infrastructure, public health, the economy, national security and more. They also spoke of the actions and solutions needed to reduce those risks. The presentations can be seen at https://www.nebriefing.org/
A 45-minute documentary called The People’s Emergency Briefing covers the key points of the briefing. The film followed immediately by a discussion, will be available for community screenings across the UK from 7 April, to inform and stimulate discussion and action so that there is public support for the many positive, science-led solutions to the climate and nature crises, which are accelerating.
If you want to know more and/or be involved, including hosting a community film screening, links are below.
https://www.nebriefing.org/aims
https://www.nebriefing.org/the-film