Guidance
GBE Community Fund (GBECF) projects (September 2026)
Updated 24 September 2026
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GBECF projects (correct as of 8 September 2026).
| Local Net Zero Hub region | Community group | CEF grant value | Technology | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greater South East Net Zero Hub | Ashwell Parish Council | £39,600 | Multi Technology Approaches | Zero Carbon Ashwell |
| Greater South East Net Zero Hub | Shipbourne Parish Council | £40,000 | Type B Project (Energy Efficiency) | CASP- Retrofit Shipbourne and Plaxtol |
| Greater South East Net Zero Hub | Energise South Downs | £40,000 | Onshore Wind | Community Owned Onshore Wind |
| Greater South East Net Zero Hub | Sustainable Framsden | £37,000 | Solar photo voltaic | CREW Sustainable Framsden |
| Greater South East Net Zero Hub | Phoenix Community Energy | £40,000 | Battery Storage | Phoenix 1 |
| Greater South East Net Zero Hub | Energise South Society Limited | £40,000 | Solar photo voltaic | Battle Solar Town |
| Greater South East Net Zero Hub | Home Energy Action Lab Limited | £40,000 | Type B Project (Energy Efficiency) | CRTEG Retrofit |
| Greater South East Net Zero Hub | Hazelmere Climate Group | £40,000 | Solar photo voltaic | Hazelmere Community Renewables, Retrofit and Decarbonisation |
| Greater South East Net Zero Hub | Shepreth Parish Council | £40,000 | Solar photo voltaic | Shepreth Parish Community Energy Project |
| Greater South East Net Zero Hub | Southill Community Energy | £40,000 | Solar photo voltaic | Southill Community Energy Club |
| Greater South East Net Zero Hub | Broughton Parish Council | £40,000 | Solar photo voltaic | Broughton Community Energy Programme |
| Greater South East Net Zero Hub | Ouse Valley Energy Services Company (OVESCO) | £40,000 | Multi Technology Approaches | Raystede CRP and AD feasibility |
| Greater South East Net Zero Hub | Brighton Energy Cooperative | £39,800 | Onshore Wind | Newhaven Wind and Battery Storage |
| Greater South East Net Zero Hub | Grand Union Community Energy (GUCE) | £40,000 | Heat Network | Abbots Langley Data Centre Heat Network |
| Greater South East Net Zero Hub | Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation | £40,000 | Solar photo voltaic and Battery Storage | Letchworth Garden City Grid Decarbonisaton |
| Greater South East Net Zero Hub | Big Solar Co-operative Limited | £54,635 | Solar photo voltaic | BCA Big Solar |
| Greater South East Net Zero Hub | Test Source Community Energy | £39,575 | Solar photo voltaic | Overton Community Solar Farm |
| Greater South East Net Zero Hub | Brighton and Hove Energy Services Co-operative | £40,000 | Multi Technology Approaches | Decarbonisation action plan for Saltdean |
| Greater South East Net Zero Hub | Suffolk Environmental Services CIC | £40,000 | Solar photo voltaic and Battery Storage | Growing Community Energy |
| Greater South East Net Zero Hub | Maid Energy | £31,125 | Solar photo voltaic | Maid Energy |
| Greater South East Net Zero Hub | Community Energy Barnet | £20,255 | Solar photo voltaic | Community Energy Barnet Solar Feasibility Studies |
| Greater South East Net Zero Hub | Charsfield Parish Council | £34,032 | Solar photo voltaic | Charsfield Community Energy |
| Greater South East Net Zero Hub | Repowering Finance | £75,279 | Solar photo voltaic | Pan London Community Solar |
| Greater South East Net Zero Hub | Surrey Community Energy | £36,610 | Solar Photo voltaic | Birtley House Nursing Home Ground mounted Solar PV Array |
| Greater South East Net Zero Hub | Brighton and Hove Energy Services Co-operative | £100,000 | Onshore Wind | Ovingdean Community Wind |
| Greater South East Net Zero Hub | Hook Norton Low Carbon Limited | £39,050 | Onshore Wind | Rural Net Zero Demonstrator |
| Greater South East Net Zero Hub | Saffron Walden Community Energy | £100,000 | Solar Photo Voltaic | Littlebury Energy Project |
| Greater South East Net Zero Hub | Sustainable Energy 24 | £52,450 | Solar Photo Voltaic | SE24: Development funding for Solar PV Projects. |
| Midlands | Sustainable Hockerton Limited | £39,914 | Solar PV | Sustainable Hockerton Limited stage 2 |
| Midlands | Mozes Wisegrid CIC | £100,000 | Solar PV, battery, heat pumps, and Ev | Mozes Wisegrid CIC stage 2 |
| Midlands | Sincil Community Land Trust | £100,000 | Solar PV and battery storage | Sincil Community Land Trust stage 2 |
| Midlands | Baslow Environment Projects Limited | £91,950 | Hydro-electric | Baslow Environment Projects Limited stage 2 |
| Midlands | Bayston Hill Parish Council | £81,795 | Solar PV, heat pumps, and EV | Bayston Hill Parish Council stage 2 |
| Midlands | Green Fox Community Energy | £40,000 | Solar PV and Wind | Green Fox Community Energy: Shared Ownership of Large-Scale Solar and Wind in Leicestershire |
| Midlands | Surya Community Energy | £85,400 | Solar PV | Surya Community Energy stage 2 |
| Midlands | Grimsby Community Energy | £99,911 | Battery storage system | Grimsby Community Energy: battery storage and grid balancing, Stage 2 |
| Midlands | Transition Buxton CIC | £99,900 | Solar PV | Transition Buxton CIC stage 2 |
| Midlands | Crowle Community Energy | £40,000 | Solar PV and battery storage | Crowle Community Energy stage 1 |
| Midlands | Stamford Town Council | £39,398 | Heat Network | Stamford Town Council stage 1 |
| Midlands | Birmingham Energy and Development Network, CIC | £40,000 | Solar PV | Birmingham Energy and Development Network CIC stage 1 |
| Midlands | The Big Solar Co-op | £36,845 | Solar PV | The Big Solar Co-op stage 1 |
| North East And Yorkshire | Community Action Northumberland | £35,224 | Solar photo voltaic and Battery Storage | Northumberland Community Energy Ltd (NCEL) |
| North East And Yorkshire | The Ouseburn Trust | £65,500 | Solar PV, battery, heat pumps, and Ev | Ouseburn Trust – Decarbonisation Project |
| North East And Yorkshire | Power Hull | £34,500 | Solar PV | Plangeo Energy Local Co-op |
| North East And Yorkshire | SY Ecofit Community Interest Company | £56,000 | AD, Biogas heat network, Bio liquids/gas/fuels and Solar (photo voltaic) | reMooable Energy – Our Cow Molly Goes Electric |
| North East And Yorkshire | SY Ecofit Community Interest Company | £40,000 | Solar photo voltaic, Storage, Biomass heat network, EV infrastructure and Anaerobic Digestion. | Integrating community energy with the restoration of heritage buildings |
| North East And Yorkshire | Weardale Renewable Energy CIC | £99,285 | Solar PV | Heights Quarry Solar Farm – Stage 2 |
| North East And Yorkshire | Rural Design Centre | £29,140 | Solar PV | Community Solar PV Feasibility Study – Durham Energy Association Ltd (DEAL) |
| North East And Yorkshire | York Community Energy | £37,742 | Solar PV | Solar City York – Stage 2 |
| North East And Yorkshire | Harrogate Town Council | £39,943 | Heat Network | District Heat Networks for Priority Residential Areas in Harrogate |
| North East And Yorkshire | Mottainai Systems CIC | £40,000 | Pyrolysis and Biolchar | Old Dairy Pyrolysis Plant - Feasibility study |
| South West Net Zero Hub | Community Energy Plus | £40,000 | Type B Project (Energy Efficiency) | Cornwall Home Upgrade Hub |
| South West Net Zero Hub | Zero North Wiltshire | £99,875 | Solar photo voltaic | Red Barn Solar |
| South West Net Zero Hub | Royal United Hospitals Charity | £40,000 | Solar photo voltaic | RUHX solar feasibility |
| South West Net Zero Hub | Bath and West Community Energy | £39,953 | Hydro, solar and battery | Project Swish Solar hydro and battery project |
| South West Net Zero Hub | Drewsteignton Community Benefit Society Ltd | £37,430 | Solar and heat | Drewsteignton Village Energy Project |
| South West Net Zero Hub | Totnes Renewable Energy Society | £40,000 | Onshore Wind | Baddaford Wind |
| South West Net Zero Hub | Communities for Renewables CIC | £40,000 | Onshore Wind | 361 Community Renewables |
| South West Net Zero Hub | Pure Leapfrog | £40,000 | Type B Project | Exploring a scalable Diocesan Community Energy Model |
| South West Net Zero Hub | Frome Renewable Energy Community | £40,000 | Onshore Wind | Critchill Community Wind |
| North West Net Zero Hub | Neston Community Energy | £40,000 | Solar photo voltaic | Leahurst Clean Energy Phase 1 |
| North West Net Zero Hub | People’s History Museum | £34,800 | Water source heat pumps | Return to River Source |
| North West Net Zero Hub | CORE Projects | £100,000 | Solar photo voltaic | CORE |
| North West Net Zero Hub | Blackburn Diocesan Board of Finance | £36,550 | Solar photo voltaic | St Silas Blackburn Community Energy |
| North West Net Zero Hub | Green Rose | £95,500 | Solar photo voltaic | Social Virtual Power Plant |
| North West Net Zero Hub | Brampton 2 Zero CIC | £40,000 | Solar photo voltaic | Carbon Emission Reduction |
| North West Net Zero Hub | Networks Coop | £100,000 | Heat Network | Heatoller |
| North West Net Zero Hub | Dane Valley Community Energy | £99,805 | Hydro power | Washford Mill |
| North West Net Zero Hub | Chester Community Energy | £28,610 | Solar photo voltaic | Hebden Green Solar |
| North West Net Zero Hub | Neston Community Energy | £40,000 | Type B Project | Local Energy Club Feasibility Study |
| North West Net Zero Hub | Green Elephant with Lancaster Co-Housing | £100,000 | Heat Network | Halton Mill Heat and Power |
| North East And Yorkshire | South Yorkshire EcoFit | £40,000 | Type B Project | DIY Retrofit: Empowering Action Across Communities |
| North East And Yorkshire | Sheffield Renewables Ltd | £40,000 | Solar PV | Potteric Carr Solar Rail |
| North East And Yorkshire | Environmental Smart CIC (Lastingham) | £36,450 | Solar PV, Hydropower, and GSHP | Lastingham Decarb Project |
| North East And Yorkshire | Environmental Smart CIC (Malton) | £38,200 | Heat Network | Malton Heat Network Project |
| North East And Yorkshire | Tempus Community Projects CIC | £40,000 | Solar PV, battery storage and EV charge points | Tempus York Village – Solar, Battery & EV |
| North East And Yorkshire | York Community Energy | £39,973 | Solar PV | Hambleton Junction Solar Rail |
| North East And Yorkshire | Church of England - Newcastle Diocese | £34,970 | Solar PV and Battery storage | Greening our Churches |
| North East And Yorkshire | Spennymoor Town Council | £30,000 | Solar PV | Spennymoor Aerodrome Community Solar |
| North East And Yorkshire | The East Durham Employability Trust | £40,000 | Solar PV, battery storage and EV charge points | Solar & EV for Peterlee |
| North East And Yorkshire | Holy lsland of Lindisfarne Community Development Trust | £98,880 | Solar PV and EV chargers | HI2050 Community Solar Charging |
| North East And Yorkshire | Rural Design Centre | £55,250 | EV charging infrastructure | Enabling Community Benefit Electric Vehicle Charging in Rural County Durham |
| North East And Yorkshire | Craghead Community Association | £37,850 | Solar PV, battery storage and EV charge points | Powering Together, Craghead |
| North East And Yorkshire | Clean Energy Leeds | £18,534 | Solar PV | Feasibility Studies Application (Four Sites) |
| South West Net Zero Hub | Community Energy Plus | £12,767 | Solar PV | CEP & REACT: Vertical ground mount solar of farmland |
| South West Net Zero Hub | Cornwall Climate Action Network | £39,287 | Geothermal heat | Geothermal protected cropping and balancing heat loads feasibility |
| South West Net Zero Hub | Bristol Energy Network | £40,000 | Onshore Wind | Onshore wind feasibility - Project 1 |
| South West Net Zero Hub | Bristol Energy Network | £40,000 | Onshore Wind | Onshore wind feasibility - Project 2 |
| South West Net Zero Hub | Bristol Energy Network | £39,379 | Onshore Wind | Leigh Farm Wind |
| South West Net Zero Hub | Dorset Community Energy | £7,860 | Onshore Wind | Small onshore wind and Energy Local feasibility |
| South West Net Zero Hub | Devon Energy Collective | £38,250 | Onshore Wind | Repowering South Brent |
| South West Net Zero Hub | Forest Community Energy | £36,835 | Solar PV | Lightwood Solar Farm shared ownership |
| South West Net Zero Hub | Tamar Energy Community | £40,000 | Solar PV, Hydropower | Sheepstor Community Energy Hub |
| South West Net Zero Hub | Green Isle of Wight | £25,350 | Battery | Social Virtual Power Plant |
| South West Net Zero Hub | Zero North Wiltshire | £10,000 | Onshore Wind | ZNW onshore wind project |
| South West Net Zero Hub | Dorset Community Energy & Dorset Climate Action Network | £39,750 | Onshore Wind | DCE&DCAN onshore wind project |
| South West Net Zero Hub | Blackawton Parish Council | £33,000 | Onshore Wind | Blackawton Parish wind feasibility |
| South West Net Zero Hub | Devon Energy Collective | £95,500 | Onshore Wind | DEC onshore wind |
| South West Net Zero Hub | Severn Wye Energy Agency | £39,978 | Ground source heat | Belfry Rural Micro Heat Network |
| South West Net Zero Hub | Race Equality North Somerset | £39,600 | Onshore WInd | RENS wind feasibility study |
| South West Net Zero Hub | Energy Prospects | £40,000 | Onshore WInd | 361 Renewables solar feasibility |
| South West Net Zero Hub | Bristol Energy Cooperative | £55,000 | Rooftop solar | Rooftop solar schools project |
| North West Net Zero Hub | Carbon Co-op | £40,000 | Onshore wind | Denshaw Community Wind Farm |
| North West Net Zero Hub | Surya Community Energy | £31,000 | Solar photo voltaic | North West Solar Temples Project |
| North West Net Zero Hub | Make it Maccesfield | £40,000 | Building retrofit | Eyesense in Domestic Residence |
| North West Net Zero Hub | Carbon Co-op | £31,625 | Solar photo voltaic | Powershapers |
| North West Net Zero Hub | CHASE | £98,463 | Hydro power | Chester Hydro Hub |
| North West Net Zero Hub | Preston Community Energy | £94,540 | Solar photo voltaic | Preston College Community Solar |
| North West Net Zero Hub | Rossendale Valley Energy | £97,174 | Solar photo voltaic | Paragon Works Solar Meadow |