Join Community Energy England

One of the CEE’s primary functions is to support the establishment of new community energy enterprises.

We are therefore happy to offer new and unincorporated groups membership of the association with charging a fee.

Community Members are:

(a) Any social enterprise or not-for-profit organisation delivering or planning to deliver community energy projects, with a membership drawn primarily from the communities they serve; or
(b) Any social enterprise or not-for-profit organisation set up primarily to support the delivery of community energy projects;

Where:-

(c) Community energy projects are those that are owned and controlled wholly or partly by a social enterprise or not-for-profit organisation and whose benefits are distributed beyond those that are investing financially in the project; and
(d) Social enterprise and not-for-profit organisations include: Charitable Incorporated Organisations, Charities, Companies limited by Guarantee, Development Trusts, Community Benefit Societies, Co-operative Societies, Community Interest Companies, Community Associations and unincorporated entities intending to incorporate as one of the above.

Public Members are other organisations which do not qualify as Community Members or Corporate Members and can be identified as on of the below bullet points.

If applicable (e.g. membership question applies to NGOs and representative bodies):

Our standard annual public and third sector membership fee is £550.

Our standard annual Corporate membership fee is £1,100.