Where are we now?

What do we have for starters, as we finalise the launch of a new group tasked with taking our proposal to the essential rigours of planning presentation?

A launch meeting: to inform potential volunteers is to be held in Sedgeberrow at Sandfield Farm Outdoor learning: 7pm on Monday 4th April 2022; For further details about attendance. Contact Mike by email; at energy@sesame.me.uk, or on his mobile: 07949200207

Funding: A Stage 2 Rural Community Energy Fund (RCEF) Grant of £80,000 now confirmed for Development of a Heat & Wind project in Sedgeberrow for SeSaME and the to be newly established, Evesham Vale Energy Renewables (EVER)

The primary source of generation will be a wind turbine, linked to a heat pump at a Sedgeberrow Horticultural Business with an acre of glass. The turbine will be community owned, the heat pump could be owned by the community or by the business. Even with the heat pump around 75% of the electricity generated will be sold to the grid. The system will provide cost effective low carbon heat & power for the business and the wind turbine will provide an income for the local community. The groups final constitution and name will be intended to provide for meeting future opportunities in the immediate area of the Vale

Project Management

Sharenergy a not-for-profit organisation that helps communities find, build and own renewable energy generation tendered for Sedgeberrow Sustainable and Manageable Energy (SeSaME) to assist in the development stage of installing the heat and wind project. They are currently working with hydro power, wind, heat, and solar projects throughout the UK. The work followed on from the feasibility work for SeSaME carried out by Sharenergy and Locogen under RCEF Stage 1.

Evesham Vale Energy Renewables – EVER

Where are we now?

The grant applied for by SeSaME was on behalf of EVER, which once constituted with signed up volunteers will operate as a separate organisation. We are launching EVER, as the heading above, with its final constitution as a Community Benefit Society for the Vale of Evesham, to be agreed by the new members.

a). A Domain name purchased: ever.me.uk

b). Website design and Communication volunteer committed to be Technical Lead.

c). The group will have £1000.00 pump priming cheque for initial expenses, with the later option of it being returned as shares at an appropriate time, at the discretion of Directors

e). Initial Chairing to be undertaken by SeSaME Chair Mike Parker for continuity purposes, with a maximum period of a year, when he will stand down for the Directors to elect a new Chair and he will remain only as a share holder.

Mike Parker. Chair. SeSaME. 15.3.22