Co-op Energy partner with Ripple Energy & Restarting our Communities

Thank you

We know that you are doing an incredible job, going above and beyond to help our members, customers and fellow colleagues, whilst adapting to this ever-changing and challenging time. We continue to be grateful for all you’re doing, thank you.

Today, we feature a thank you from isolating customers Peter & Thea Hawksworth who wrote in to thank the team at our Stanford in the Vale Food store, well done Adam and the team.

I write this on the verge of my release from captivity!  I would just like to reiterate the sentiments that I expressed in my previous email. Adam and the staff of the Stanford Coop have been magnificent in their support of my husband and I and other elderly and vulnerable people in the village. I cannot speak too highly of them. How very lucky we are to have a Coop in our village , and the manager and staff have exemplified all that the Cooperative Movement stands for , with their care for the community foremost , and excellent service to all .Now I hope to return to my daily routine of picking up my own shopping there .
Thank you also for your initiative in starting the home delivery and for making it so easy to access.
Yours sincerely,
Peter and Thea Hawksworth

 

The UK’s first consumer-owned wind farm – Co-op Energy partner with Ripple Energy

 

Our partnership with Octopus Energy enables us to provide energy as well as supporting a range of community-owned initiatives across the UK.  We have now partnered with Ripple Energy to launch the UK’s very first consumer-owned wind farm based at Graig Fatha Farm near Coedely, north of Cardiff. 

Customers can become Members and owners of part of the wind farm, which will be operational in early 2021 by buying shares in the co-operative that owns Graig Fatha.  Around 2,000 customers will be able to join this first pilot project. You can read more on this here.

This represents a significant milestone in changing the way the UK is powered, giving more people the opportunity to directly own how their electricity is generated and we have already seen some great positive PR around this, including a feature in The Times, which you can see here.

 

Community Restart Fund – Helping those who are helping others - Chilterns MSC Centre

 

Like many other charitable organisations, Chilterns MS Centre in Aylesbury has been massively affected by the Covid-19 outbreak. However, we’ve been able to help support then with £1,000 through our Community Restart Funding programme.

Our £1,000 fund donation has a gone a long way for the Chilterns MS Centre who provide a number of clinical treatments to over 500 people living with multiple sclerosis each week.

The pandemic has been the biggest threat to their charity in their long 35-year history, but they haven’t given up. Although the Therapy centre is currently closed, they have adapted their working procedures and provide remote support via online classes and 1:1 telephone support.

Helping a range of individuals, this includes interactive mental wellbeing workshops combatting sleeping problems, low mood, stress and anxiety.

Many of their members are some of the most vulnerable who may not even have a network of family or friends to support them.

Our funding will ensure their clinical and wellbeing team continue to provide the much-needed support to members using the facility.

 

We want to ensure we are doing everything we can to help you at this time, and if you have any further ideas or comments then please, let us know using the comments section below or via your line manager. Thank you again for all YOUR efforts, it is appreciated.

 

John Street

Coronavirus Co-ordinator