Community Heat workshop

Interested in understanding how the Bristol City Leap Community Energy Fund could benefit your community group? We're hosting a workshop with our partners at Vattenfall to help you explore options and how to apply.

The Bristol City Leap Community Energy Fund has been designed to stimulate innovation and support community projects that accelerate decarbonisation in our city, nurturing a diverse range of projects rooted in local communities.

We can help local community groups identify and leverage funding, whether that’s by exploring additional revenue streams through community-led ownership of heat network assets, generating low carbon electricity from community buildings or funding community connections to the heat network.

The workshop will provide the opportunity to learn about the heat network specifically, through Bristol City Leap’s heat network delivery partner, Vattenfall.

Event agenda:     

10:00 - Arrive at Trinity Community Arts and head towards the Graffiti room

10:15 - Introduction from the Bristol Energy network

10:20 – Community Energy Fund introduction by James Sterling

10:30 - Introduction to Vattenfall and the Bristol heat network by Andrew Foulkes

10:45 - Deep dive into how community energy projects can work with the Bristol heat network by Sonya Bedford

11:15 - Break and refreshments

11:30 – Community Heat workshop - brainstorm your ideas and how you can benefit from the Fund with representatives from Vattenfall, Bristol City Leap and Bristol Energy Network

• Connecting to the heat network
• Generating heat for the heat network

12:30 - Closing

Bristol City Leap Community Energy Fund

The fund applications started in 2023, with funding and loans released in six-month intervals over the next four years. Visit the Bristol City Leap website to find out more: Community Energy Fund - Bristol City Leap