This guide provides tips and links to resources for community energy organisations, pooling together key resources from across the community energy and wider voluntary, community, and social enterprise sectors. The guide is aimed primarily at groups that are starting out, however it’s also useful for long-established groups looking to grow or improve their governance practices.
Good governance is a key ingredient in ensuring community energy organisations are equipped to turn ambition into action at the scale required to deliver Net Zero by 2030. Ultimately, we need sustainable, thriving organisations who have the right people, finance and resources to deliver projects that create real benefits for communities.
Governance covers all aspects of running a successful organisation. This guide provides tips and links to resources for community energy organisations, pooling together key resources from across the community energy and wider voluntary, community, and social enterprise sectors. The guide is aimed primarily at groups that are starting out, however it’s also useful for long-established groups looking to grow or improve their governance practices.
Developed through discussions with community energy groups in the Greater South East and experts in community energy and governance, this guide is structured around what they considered to be key governance priorities:
You can navigate this guide in a way that best suits your needs – whether it’s to find suggestions on dealing with a specific governance challenge, reading up on general governance principles, or looking for inspiring case studies from peers within the sector.
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