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Edinburgh Community Solar Co-operative

Edinburgh Community Solar Co-operative (ECSC) grew from a straightforward idea: give people across the capital a practical way to tackle climate chang...

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Radio City Association

Radio City Association was established in the late 1990s as a Millennium Project to restore Kilbirnie’s historic Art Deco cinema. After successfully...

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Dalgety Bay Sailing Club

Dalgety Bay Sailing Club sits on the shores of the Firth of Forth and is a valued community hub. Not only does it offer member’s water sports activi...

Funding

CARES Public Body Partnership Support

Under the Community Energy Growth Fund, public bodies may be eligible for support where their involvement is essential to the development of a communi...

Funding

Community Energy Growth Fund

The Community Energy Growth Fund is currently closed to new applications. The CARES Resilience Fund and CARES Public Body Partnership Support remain ...

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Assumptions used

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Impact of project level debt on community investment

The developer of the Project may use debt financing to fund the underlying Project. This would usually rank senior to any profits payable to equity, m...

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Impact of community funding costs

The Community would need to fund its investment and is likely to need to raise third party financing to fund the full Investment Price if it does not ...

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Investment profile

When a Community is offered a shared ownership investment stake, the amount that it is asked to invest (Investment Price) is usually based on one of t...

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Granton Project

Location: Granton, Edinburgh

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Minginish Community Association

Location: Minginish, Isle of Skye

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