Resources

The Net Zero Community Strategy has been produced in partnership with Community Energy Plus, Wadebridge Renewable Energy Network, Planet A Solutions and University of Exeter.

As part of their latest Net Zero Community Strategy, National Grid have produced a ‘How to’ guide to help community energy groups in educating, facilitating and acting on low carbon initiatives. The guide explains how “homes, businesses, schools and others can all help to harness the power of local communities to drive net zero”.

Manda Brookman, who is one of our Trustees and the Climate and Ecological Emergency Lead with Volunteer Cornwall, has produced a short film ‘The Time is Now’. “The climate and ecological crises are getting louder and louder and we know that those in our communities in Cornwall, here and afar, who are in any way vulnerable, are hit first and worst by these crises.”

This short film features contributions from some of the Voluntary and Community Sector leaders in Cornwall to see what they think, feel and find out what action is starting to be taken.

Rural communities have higher fuel poverty levels due to low incomes and expensive heating fuels. Some European countries with more low carbon heat take-up have lower fuel poverty levels than the UK.

Our project, funded by the Eaga Charitable Trust, provided a comparative analysis between the UK and other countries to identify drivers and barriers affecting take-up. The findings from the study, completed in November 2017, can be broadly categorised by two key areas, that of policy and of practice, therefore we have produced a suite of resources targeted towards the information needs of specific audiences.