Travel lightly.
St Davids Eco City Group has now started a car club – the five seater Nissan Leaf is on lease from Cilgwyn community car club. The Leaf is all electric and has a solar panel on the roof to contribute to the power. It can be charged from a domestic plug with an official range of about 100 miles per charge. Fast charging is already available in places like Haverfordw...
Darllenwch Mwy
Ponthafren Association is a user led Mental Health Resource Centre, which serves the community in and around the very rural area of North Powys. It offers a service to anyone with mental health issues or who is socially isolated or excluded and works on an 'open door' policy, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Its members number approximately 250, with an outreach centre in Welshpool and a...
Darllenwch Mwy
Food for Your Future
A new way of getting fresh, local food...
FlintShare CSA was started, in 2010, by a group of people who wanted local food produced in a cost effective and sustainable way. We recognise that the days of cheap imports are numbered (perhaps thankfully) and ways of producing more food locally and ‘gently on the land’ must be found. FlintShare ...
Interest in activities with a food focus emerged from a lifestyle audit carried out in Pembroke by the Pembroke Can Make a Difference (PCMAD) subgroup of Pembroke 21C Community Association in 2009. Food related issues also arose during the recent community consultation carried out by Pembroke 21C to develop Pembroke’s 2020 Community Plan. These included:
- Community gardens and/or...
Darllenwch Mwy
Wheelrights are a cycle campaign group covering the Swansea Bay Area.
They aim to:
1.To encourage and assist potential cyclists to take up cycling and thereby prepare them for using a bike as a means of transportation.
2.To campaign for better provision for cyclists in the Swansea Bay area.
3.To provide information about cyc...
Case Study: Abergwyngregyn
Ynni Anafon Energy Cyf
Legal Structure Industrial & Provident Society
Incorporation Date 2002
... Darllenwch Mwy
Case Study: Llanaelhaearn
Antur Aelhaearn
Legal Structure Industrial & Provident Society
Incorporation Date 1974
Activ...
Darllenwch Mwy
Case Study: Harlech
Harlech Sustainable Energy Coop Ltd
Legal Structure Industrial & Provident Society - Coop
Incorporation Date March 2014 <...
Darllenwch Mwy
Case Study: Llanberis
YnNi Padarn Peris
Legal Structure Industrial & Provident Society
Incorporation Date March 2014
Active Volunteers / ...
Darllenwch Mwy
Transition Cafe – Cutting carbon by making use of surplus food
Community RePaintDarllenwch Mwy
The Carmarthenshire Outdoor Learning Wales (OLW) Cluster Group is one of 22 county based networks providing outdoor learning opportunities to people of all ages, supported by Natural Resources Wales. This group engaged Renew Wales to support a Climate Change Action Plan during 201...
Darllenwch Mwy
Renew Wales has been awarded the Engaging in the Community Award at the Wales Green Energy Awards 2014. Programme Director, Robert Proctor, received the award at a ceremony that also celebrated Renew Wales’ backed Egni, who won the award for best Renewable Energy sta...
Darllenwch Mwy
The Renew Wales Pallet Furniture Making project is an initiative that was designed to promote awareness and encourage people to take action on environmental issues.
In 2013 Crickhowell High School supported an idea around setting up a small woodland group and potential environmental classroom as part of the School Ec...
Darllenwch Mwy
Name of project: Egni Coop
The
Summary
Corwen Electricity Group came together as a community to build a 55KW, high head hydro scheme in the town of Corwen. The scheme is 100% owned and run by the community. They now generate approximately 138,000kWh of renewable electricity every year. This equates to a saving of approximately 56,862 kg CO2e per...
Darllenwch Mwy
The Incredible Edible movement started 10 years ago in Todmorden, West Yorkshire with the aim to grow food to share and give access to locally produced foodDarllenwch Mwy
Clynfyw Care Farm and Learning Centre is a Community ...
Darllenwch Mwy
CARE have been working on establishing a community based renewable energy project since 2004. Their long-term vision is to work with the local area to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, whilst at the same time tackle fuel poverty and soc...
Darllenwch Mwy