BANISH THE INEFFICENT COMMUNITY BUILDING – NEWSFLASH

BANISH THE INEFFICENT COMMUNITY BUILDING – NEWSFLASH
 
Marches Energy Agency (MEA) has contacted a number of community building managers in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire regarding a free energy assessment and feasibility study which is being partially funded by your Local Authority under the ‘Banish the Inefficient Community Building’ project. The remainder of the funding for these potential studies is available through the BIG Lottery’s ‘Community Sustainable Energy Programme’ (CSEP), which can provide grants towards 75% of the cost of undertaking this work.
 
On 4th August MEA received notification from BRE, the managing agents of the CSEP grant fund, that the scheme will be closed to new applications at 1700 on Wednesday 1st September.
 
If you have received a quote from MEA but have not yet submitted an application to BRE for the CSEP grant and still wish to participate in the project, we strongly recommend that you prepare and submit your application at the earliest possible opportunity. It is highly likely that this announcement by BRE will trigger a surge of application submissions, and if your organisation is to be able to secure a grant from the remaining unallocated funding, then time is very much ‘of the essence’.
 
As ever, MEA will be pleased to offer advice and guidance to any organisation with the final completion and submission of the application form. MEA continues to seek to enable as many community organisations across the East Midlands Region as possible to benefit from this funding stream and from the Local Authority funding, which offers community groups an opportunity for a fully-funded, impartial study which will identify opportunities to reduce energy costs and secure CO2 savings.
 
MEA is seeking to contact all prospective participants in this project individually to determine whether organisations still wish to be involved and to offer such assistance as may be required.
 
Should you require guidance with preparing your application, or if you have any other questions about the project, the please contact: