Empower Community

COMING SOON: THE EMPOWER COMMUNITY FUND

The purpose of the Empower Community Fund (ECF) is to accelerate the transition to a low carbon economy by providing access to much-needed capital for community renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. It is designed to create a virtuous cycle of resource allocation for social and environmental benefit that encourages large-scale community participation, ownership and responsibility.

While grass-roots, action-oriented responses to climate change continue to grow exponentially, the current limited access to finance is hampering the wholesale development and implementation of distributed energy solutions at anything like the scale or speed required.

The government has signed up to a target of a 34% CO2 reduction by 2020. This will require some 35 GW of new renewable energy generation capacity, involving an investment requirement of at least £100 billion (DECC).

Designed by social enterprise - The Omni Group (OMNI) - Empower Community is a rapidly scalable funding mechanism that balances the interests of all stakeholders by providing a high quality investment opportunity with attractive returns, reinvesting profits in further community projects and facilitating ultimate community ownership of assets.

Join Us
ECF and the governing Community Interest Company are currently being established in readiness for a 2010 launch focusing on solar PV for social housing and we are engaging participants in the form of public and private sector projects, communities and investors.

If you are interested in learning more about this opportunity, please contact us:

Alex Grayson 07894 909049 alex.grayson ‘at’ the-omni-group.net
Robert Knowles 07748 151517 robert.knowles ‘at’ the-omni-group.net


	COMING SOON: THE EMPOWER COMMUNITY FUND The purpose of the Empower Community Fund (ECF) is to accelerate the transition to a low carbon economy by providing access to much-needed capital for community renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. It is designed to create a virtuous cycle of resource allocation for social and environmental benefit that encourages large-scale community participation, ownership and responsibility. While grass-roots, action-oriented responses to climate change continue to grow exponentially, the current limited access to finance is hampering the wholesale development and implementation of distributed energy solutions at anything like the scale or speed required. The government has signed up to a target of a 34% CO2 reduction by 2020. This will require some 35 GW of new renewable energy generation capacity, involving an investment requirement of at least £100 billion (DECC). Designed by social enterprise - The Omni Group (OMNI) - Empower Community is a rapidly scalable funding mechanism that balances the interests of all stakeholders by providing a high quality investment opportunity with attractive returns, reinvesting profits in further community projects and facilitating ultimate community ownership of assets. Join Us ECF and the governing Community Interest Company are currently being established in readiness for a 2010 launch focusing on solar PV for social housing and we are engaging participants in the form of public and private sector projects, communities and investors. If you are interested in learning more about this opportunity, please contact us: Alex Grayson 07894 909049 alex.grayson ‘at’ the-omni-group.net Robert Knowles 07748 151517 robert.knowles ‘at’ the-omni-group.net