Share offers

Kent Community Energy have a withdrawable Community Shares open on Ethex. They are looking to raise £400,000 to fund a programme of 490kW of rooftop solar projects on six community buildings across Kent.

The projects include a mental health charity, an old age and dementia hub, council buildings, a heritage steam railway, a community hall and a secondary college. Projects are located across the county and save on average 50% of the hosts electrical consumption and up to 25% of their electricity bills. Profits from the business ventures will be dedicated to our already active grant programme, increasing our grant capacity from £15,000 a year to around £30,000. Investors can invest from as little as £100 to as much as £100,000 and the shares offer an annual return of 6%. KCE has an existing 5MW ground mounted solar farm and an ongoing pipeline of 1.5MW of large and small-scale rooftop projects.

SELCE are seeking to raise £33,000 to pay for the installation of solar photo voltaic (PV) panels at the Invicta Primary School in Blackheath. Over the 20 years of the project, we estimate that the school will making savings of £109,496 on its energy bills and prevent over 113 tonnes of CO2 emissions

These investments will:

• Help a local school to direct more funds towards education and amenities for their staff, students and wider communities.
• Help Selce to make fuel poverty a thing of the past. 
• Reduce carbon emissions locally by powering up with solar panels.

Bath & West Community Energy need your support to raise £440,000 by December 2025 to finance the construction of a 2 MW solar farm in Compton Dando, Bath & North East Somerset.

By investing anywhere between £100 and £100,000 in BWCE you can

• Earn target interest rate 5.75% per year, subject to performance
• Become a member of one of the largest community energy businesses in the country
• Support with the vital expansion of renewable energy and the reduction of carbon emissions at this critical time for our communities and the planet.

BHESCo is launching their 2025 Share Offer, to raise funds for a number of new community energy projects.

Investors will be eligible for interest at a target rate of 5% per annum and the kudos of knowing that their money is going directly towards new clean energy projects in Brighton and Hove.

Their new projects include:

• A ‘first-of-a-kind’ neighbourhood scale solar power and solar battery programme.
• An ‘in-roof’ solar panel array at a local golf club.

These new projects will bring thousands of pounds of savings to the community, achieve a massive reduction in carbon emissions, and demonstrate that community-led energy projects can be a key driver in helping the UK reach its clean energy goals. 

Why doesn’t every big roof have solar? The Big Solar Co-op is on a mission to solarise the UK, one rooftop at a time. We have an always-open rolling share offer to finance our ambitious program of new installations on big rooftops across the UK. We’ve now got over 40 new sites signed up and ready to build, from children’s nurseries to steelworks, leisure centres to historic buildings – we just need more members to invest so we can deliver these and focus on the next round (already coming thick and fast).

A few key facts:

• Big Solar Co-op’s focus is on solar that’s not getting built but needs to be – large rooftops, small ground-mount (on appropriate sites)
• Our target interest rate is 5% (or 2% above base rate where that’s higher)
• We’re committed to make it as easy as possible for members to withdraw capital when they need to
• You can opt to reinvest your interest (to help build more solar – and so your returns are more like compound interest in a bank)
• We have a very strong ethical policy – we pay a significant premium for our low-carbon solar panels that don’t source raw materials from areas implicated in forced labour

Whether or not you invest, you could join us – we are majority-owned by our Volunteer Members who pay £1 for membership. We can train you to find, design, and deliver solar. Do you have a favourite local big roof? Work with other volunteers from across the UK to make it happen – we’ve already helped several people to make this happen in their communities, sometimes in places that don’t have existing community energy groups.

Over the last eight years Grimsby Community Energy have raised £444,732 of investment to deliver renewable energy across Grimsby, Cleethorpes and North East Lincolnshire, installing 534kW of solar PV (photovoltaic) panels for community organisations, generating 157MWh of clean electricity and saving 184t of CO2.

This place-based approach to energy generation means local community organisations pay less for their energy and everyone who invests in Grimsby Community Energy has a vote in the running of our society. 

This new share offer is an ‘open offer’ without a closing date, so that people can support them financially whenever they are able to.

You can invest from as little as £100 (option for instalments) up to a maximum of £80,000 to help them raise £500,000 and achieve their target of one megawatt of solar PV for Grimsby.