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WWCE Solar for Silverwood
Renewable Energy - Community Shares
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Wiltshire Wildlife Community Energy develops community-owned renewable energy projects that reduce carbon emissions, promote wildlife and give back to the community.
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Wiltshire Wildlife Community Energy
Society no. 32116R
Wiltshire, UK
Incorporation date: 02 July 2013
Your money will…
Take action against climate change by funding a new community-owned solar array, generating clean energy for Silverwood Special School.
Support biodiversity and environmental education initiatives delivered in partnership with the school, funded by surplus income generated from the solar array.
Help to give nature a home on WWCE’s solar sites, providing habitats for native species and flowers around their solar arrays.
Earn a potential return. Investments in the share offer target a return of 5.5% per year.
The bigger picture
The UK faces social, biodiversity and climate crises. Wiltshire Wildlife Community Energy is a not-for-profit community benefit society seeking to tackle these issues head-on by developing community-owned renewables to generate clean energy and income to support biodiversity and community fuel poverty projects in Wiltshire. Since 2013, it has:
- Raised c.£7million from community shares and loans to build two community solar farms at Chelworth and Braydon Manor, and three rooftop solar arrays on Wiltshire Wildlife Trust buildings.
- Generated enough clean energy to power around 2,000 homes per year.
- Created a community fund that has allocated over £130,000 to support vital local initiatives that tackle fuel poverty, improve biodiversity and reduce carbon in Wiltshire.
- Improved local biodiversity through effective land management plans around their solar arrays in partnership with Wiltshire Wildlife Trust.
- Provided free energy-saving advice to nearly 800 people across Wiltshire via its Keeping Warm This Winter programme.
Where your money goes
Your investment in the Wiltshire Wildlife share offer will:
- Provide this extraordinary community energy organisation with the capital to pay for the installation of a new 1,087 panel rooftop solar array at Silverwood School.
- Enable the school to generate around 484,000kWh of clean energy, with excess being sold back to the grid.
- Generate an estimated £5000 each year that will be allocated to supporting educational projects delivered in partnership with the school which focuses on biodiversity and the environment.
- Benefit the local ecosystem by helping WWCE to continue its mission of maintaining nature-friendly and biodiverse spaces around its ground-mounted solar arrays.
Team
Meet the Wiltshire Wildlife Community Energy Team : https://wwce.org/about-us/team/
Julian Barlow
Chair
Julian Barlow is a local businessman who joined the board of the WWCE shortly before the 2019 AGM. As a Trustee of the WWT Julian not only sits our board but also is a council member of the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust. He is member of Compton Bassett Parish Council and has run his own Public Relations business for over 25 years based in the South East.
Rob Gillies
Director
Rob has been a member of Wiltshire Wildlife Trust since moving to Chippenham in 2010. Rob is a senior manager at the Natural Environment Research Council, part of UK Research & Innovation, where he works with UK Government, business and the UK academic research community to develop funding programmes for world-leading environmental science.
Lucy Normington
Director
Lucy has worked in the pharmaceutical industry, and as School Business Manager of St Mary’s Primary School in Purton and is currently a project impact evaluator for Innovate UK, a government funding body that is based in Swindon. Lucy is passionate about Wiltshire’s wildlife and communities and is getting involved to help raise awareness of WWCE and develop partnerships with likeminded community organisations.
Jon Bateman
Director
Jon is a professional Engineer specialising in Water, Utilities and Environmental Management and formerly Director of Halcrow Management Sciences (now Jacobs) – a regulatory advisory business focussing on utility policy and regulation. He has been a member of WWCE since 2015 has been a Board Director of BWCE since 2014.
David Lewin
Director
David founded Companies Ovum and Plum and providing policy and regulatory advice to international Telecoms companies. Non-Executive Director of WWCE since 2015.
Lesley Bennett
Director
Lesley has previously acted as a Trustee of WWT, Non Executive Customer Director Wessex Water, Member of SW Courts Board NED Great Western Hospital as well as having been an elected Councillor in Wiltshire for 15 years chairing and the Agenda 21 and Planning Panels.
Sylvia Wyatt
Director
Sylvia is a semi-retired healthcare strategist who has worked with different organisations on complex problems in health, social care, housing and the voluntary sector. Sylvia is passionate about decarbonisation and has supported wildlife trusts in Scotland, Surrey, Warwickshire, Yorkshire and now Wiltshire where she serves on the Sustainability, Education and Wellbeing Committee.
Rachel McEwen
Board Member
Rachel is Director of Sustainability at SSE Plc, and is responsible for its sustainability strategy, partnership funding and corporate heritage. She is also Chair of Living Wage Scotland’s Business Leadership Group and was Senior Special Adviser to Scotland’s First Minister, 2001 to 2007.
Christian Hallum
Board Member
Christian Hallum co-leads Oxfam’s tax justice work internationally, and is based in Denmark. He has previously worked with Tax Justice Network Africa in Kenya, IBIS in Sierra Leone and Eurodad in Belgium. He has also worked with the Danish tax administration SKAT as a compliance analyst.
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Interest accrual and payment
Interest will be paid in December each year for the previous financial year (April to March).
Interest will accrue from issue of shares.
Getting your money out
Shares are withdrawable, subject to funds being available, at the sole discretion of the Board, and in accordance with WWCE’s Rules and WWCE’s share buyback policy. WWCE’s intention is to repay member capital as funds allow, over the period ending 20 years following the first close date, from revenue generated by the Silverwood School solar array. Repayments may commence from 2026.
Investing on behalf of children
This offer is eligible for investment on behalf of children.
If you wish to invest on behalf of a child, you can do this at the end of the online order process.
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