Cuppa Club 30 - Energy Garden

For over a decade, Energy Garden has created a network of 30 community-run energy gardens across the London Overground that are funded by the sale of solar PV energy. Through its work, it has renovated dilapidated and overgrown transport sites and turned them into biodiverse and productive gardens. Run by over 300 volunteers the sites help clean the air on the platforms and provide education to young people about renewable energy and community projects.

They are back on Ethex, following a successful raise in 2021, with a share offer to raise £800,000, offering investors a potential return of 5.5%. Energy Garden will use the funding from this investment raise to develop new solar projects, creating a revenue stream that reduces the requirement for grant funding and enabling its transition towards a truly sustainable, self-financing organisation. Investments will help develop new solar projects, cutting carbon emissions and enabling the organisation to create more energy gardens and expand its youth training and school programmes.

Paul Pizzala, Investment Manager, Ethex (host)

Agamemnon Otero, Founder & CEO, Energy Garden

Martin Sedgwick, COO, Energy Garden