Energising
Central
Suffolk

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Become a Director of Central Suffolk Community Energy

We are interested in hearing from residents of central Suffolk who, on a voluntary basis, will enable us to promote and deliver community energy, but especially those with a renewable energy engineering background. If you would like to be considered, submit a short resume with contact details to enquiries@csceuk.org

Become a CSCE community

Contact us using the form below and let us know about how your community is reducing its carbon footprint; what its done, what its doing now and what it plans to do in future.

Become a member of Central Suffolk Community Energy

By their very nature, community energy companies are community organisations. Becoming a member gives residents a stake in the company, preserves its community credentials and helps it to survive financially.

For a lifetime membership of £12 you can become a member of CSCE. Members receive a vote at the company’s Annual General Meeting on any proposals that the Board puts forward to the membership for approval and will be added our members’ mailing list and will receive updates and information about investment opportunities if and when we launch a community share offer.

All membership fees will be used to part cover administration costs including website hosting, print costs, insurance and professional services charges

To apply for membership please complete the form below and send a payment of £12 to:

Central Suffolk Community Energy CIC (Co-op Bank)
Sort Code: 08 92 99
Account No: 6733190300

Members of Central Suffolk Community Energy CIC have the right to attend the General Meetings of the company, of which there will usually be one annually and vote on resolutions contained in the meeting’s agenda and notified to members at least 14 clear days in advance.

Members will also receive copies of twice-yearly Newsletters and limited other communications from the directors.

All notices, newsletters and any other documents relating to your membership will be sent to the e-mail address of members.

Membership Application

Declaration

In completing and submitting this Membership Application Form, I confirm that:

I am applying for lifetime membership on my own behalf of Central Suffolk Community Energy CIC and support its Activities as set out in its Community Interest Statement (CIC36), to provide benefit to community groups and households in parishes that are either wholly off the gas-grid or predominately so and are within the Central Suffolk and North Ipswich parliamentary constituency, by:

    1. Sourcing and coordination of advice and services to communities and households to reduce their carbon footprint, including the promotion of relevant and up to date grant information and other financial assistance.
    2. Promoting community energy initiatives in central Suffolk, acting as a focal/networking point for local groups, community energy asset owning bodies, government/councils and similar groups outside central Suffolk.
    3. Co-ordination of the overall pipeline of community energy projects in central Suffolk, including help with business casing, feasibility studies, and grant applications for local energy initiatives.
    4. Pursuing and supporting the mitigation of climate change through, but not exclusively, energy related and associated initiatives.
  2. I am an individual and over the age of 16.
  3. I have paid the lifetime membership fee to the bank account of Central Suffolk Community Energy CIC at the Co-op Bank, sort code 08-92-99, account number: 6733190300.
  4. I will provide proof of identity and address if the directors of Central Suffolk Community Energy CIC ask for it and authorise the directors to take out identity checks.
  5. I understand that my application for membership of Central Suffolk Community Energy CIC requires the formal approval of the Directors of the company.
  6. In line with the Articles of Association of the company, which are available on written request, my membership is terminated in the following circumstances and is not transferable to anyone else:
    1. I die
    2. At a meeting of the directors at which at least half of the directors are present, a resolution is passed resolving that the member be expelled on the ground that his or her continued membership is harmful to or is likely to become harmful to the interests of the company. Such a resolution may not be passed unless the member has been given at least 14 clear days’ notice that the resolution is proposed, specifying the circumstances alleged to justify expulsion and has been afforded a reasonable opportunity of being heard by or making written representations to the directors. A member expelled by such resolution will nevertheless remain liable to pay to the company any subscription or other sum owed by him or her.