Wilbrahams’ Memorial Hall solar project gets the go ahead!

Wilbrahams’ Memorial Hall are delighted to announce that they have secured all the grant funding that they need to progress with their project to install 60 solar panels on the Memorial Hall roof with storage batteries inside. The installation is being completed by Greenscape and will start on August 5th, with scaffold going up the week before. The hall will be closed for one week during the works.

This is a very exciting project for the hall. It brings the prospect of generating green electricity and substantially reducing their electricity bill by using the batteries and exporting surplus energy to the national grid. The aim is to achieve ‘operational net zero carbon’ for the hall.

They would like to thank the many residents who expressed their overwhelming support for this project in our survey last year – that work was vital and fed into our various grant applications.

They were successful in securing the following grants:

Cambridgeshire Priorities Capital Fund – £25,000

 

 

 

 

Wadlow Wind Farm Community Fund – £10,000

 

 

 

 

 

Great Wilbraham Parish Council – £2,000

The Drapers’ Company – £1,000

Ridge Clean Energy (who are developing Six Oaks Solar Farm adjacent to our parishes) have donated £5,000 to our solar project and have been supportive throughout the project development.

 

 

The project has been delivered by Trustees and Committee Members: Emma Adams (grant applications); Paul Lambton (procurement and technical); Richard Morley (financial). We were also assisted by Hilary Burton of Great Wilbraham Parish Council.