Our latest bond offer has just gone live. Will you join a growing community of investors who are directly helping to fund solar on schools?
We're blessed here at the Solar for Schools Community Benefit Society to have a dedicated and growing army of people who share our vision. We now have around 1000 individual investors who are all directly helping us to reach more schools with low cost, clean solar energy, and to equip thousands more young people with energy and sustainability education.
ABOVE: Community Devlopment Manager at Solar for Schools, Danielle Parker, inspires students from Ark Kings Academy in Birmingham about the power of solar energy.
Our latest offer will help us part-fund around 1megawatt's worth of solar energy across the next 10 schools in the growing queue. Put into context, that represents a CO2 reduction of 164 tonnes per year. That's the same as 20 homes' electricity use for a whole year.
“Now our roof hums with green energy, powering our classrooms and sparking the imaginations of our young eco-warriors”
Headteacher, Barn Croft Primary School
It's our goal for every school in the UK to benefit from solar panels. This, in turn, will provide millions of children the chance to learn - through hands-on, practical experience - about the impact of climate change and how green technologies and skills will change the way we live and work for the better.
ABOVE: Ark Kings Academy students try out the Solar Explorer Kit to better understand the power of solar energy.
But there are over 30,000 schools across the UK. To reach every one of them would require around £1.5bn of investment. The Government can only afford to fund a fraction of these schools, and so the Solar for Schools Community Benefit Society (CBS) was founded in 2016 to raise funds from the public to help more schools go solar. We fundraise nationally to install nationally and will consider ALL schools. So even for schools whose dream of having solar installed feels unachievable, we can help to make the impossible possible.
ABOVE: Danielle Parker leads a whole school assembly at Lanes End Primary School, June 2023
With thousands more school every year in our sights, we're currently tackling the schools in our growing pipeline, eager to reduce both carbon emissions and energy bills. We know that with each school, there comes that 'lightbulb moment' when more and more children can see that, with collective action and - even on a local level - they too can make a real difference in our urgent and global fight against climate change. As one of our CBS Directors, Ann Flaherty, explains: “By getting solar on the roofs of schools we’re empowering students and helping them see they can do something locally to reduce carbon, that helps nationally to meet targets, and that’s globally helping to reduce our emissions.”
A few words from other people...
“They learned more about what a KWH is and what kind of equivalent power it corresponds to. They loved finding out that the carbon saved equates to 7000 trees!”
Year 7 teacher
"I'm very impressed with the project and great balance of environmental and educational benefits which should really make a difference, so I’m more than happy to invest, likely via Ethex to take advantage of the IFISA wrapper"
Tim H, investor
"To me, this is the next step - seeing if I can help other people with the same aim. Although my helping will be very very small, nevertheless, it's one raindrop joined by many, many others makes a pool, a puddle, a lake etc"...
Elizabeth S, investor
“Our KS2 children thoroughly enjoyed the Solar for Schools event and were keenly interested in the assembly content"
Headteacher, St Augustine's RC Primary
To find out more about unlocking a low carbon future, and how you can play a vital role in that, please visit our profile page at Ethex.
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