Community Energy Connect

Helping community energy groups take their projects to the next level

Community Energy Connect logo, representing a platform for connecting volunteers with community energy projects.

Connecting groups with skilled volunteers

Hundreds of community energy organisations are reshaping the UK’s power system, building resilient and healthy energy communities.

Creating £9 worth of social benefit for every £1 spent, they are helping neighbours cut energy costs, retrofit homes and promote green energy.

But, with 80% of their work being volunteer-led, groups urgently need skilled support.

 

Enter Community Energy Connect

A platform linking experts in law, finance, marketing, events and more with groups in need of extra hands.

A group of volunteers standing next to solar panels, holding signs to support renewable energy efforts.

Volunteers

  1. Sign-up 

  2. Upload your profile

  3. Search opportunities

  4. Apply for roles that suit you

  5. Find a match!

Find the perfect opportunity for you
Energy Garden team, our partners, standing in front of solar panels, supporting community renewable energy projects.

Community Energy Groups

  1. Sign-up

  2. Post your opportunity using our custom or pre-set templates

  3. Search volunteers

  4. Review applications

  5. Find a match!

Boost your group with volunteers
Two Younity colleagues collaborating on the Connect platform during a Hackathon event, developing new features for community energy initiatives.

Why we built Community Energy Connect

In 2023, we conducted interviews and focus groups up and down the country to explore the main challenges group face. Recruitment and management of volunteers was clearly a big challenge for lots of groups. Community Energy Connect emerged as a direct response to this.

Alongside research in the movement, we found a wider challenge. There was no clear call to action for the general public who can’t invest or set-up their own group. Community Energy Connect therefore, provides a simple way to mobilise skillsets and join a local movement.

Our Powering Communities Fund

Need a bit of extra financial support? Our grant funding can hep amplify your social impact.

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Supporting community-owned projects

We support over 300 community energy projects across the country - and yours could be next!

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