One the UK’s most experienced providers of ecological consultancy and contracting is growing and winning larger contracts with a little help from The Co-operative Loan Fund. Ecosulis is an employee-owned business that employs up to 40 staff during survey season. Their work includes ecological consulting, habitat creation, ecological contracting and biodiversity valuation and research. The business […]
A unique English/Scottish consultancy co-operative is poised for growth after receiving finance from The Co-operative Loan Fund. Centrifuge Consulting, which has offices in Newcastle and Glasgow, provides a range of social and economic consultancy mostly to local authorities and other public sector organisations from northern England to central Scotland. Its work includes strategy/policy development, monitoring […]
Two ethical funds are helping an environmental co-operative to install and maintain energy efficient biomass boilers in church and community buildings free of charge. The free boiler scheme is being pioneered by Manchester-based Biomass Energy Cooperative supported by loans from Co-operative & Community Finance and The Co-operative Loan Fund. This week the new biomass boiler […]
Finance from us has allowed a renewable energy installer to take on bigger contracts, ensuring growth and sustainability for the business. R-ECO is a workers’ co-operative with branches in Cornwall, Bristol and Oxford, which designs and installs bespoke renewable energy systems for domestic, commercial and community clients. The co-op was founded in 2008 with the aim […]
A forestry co-operative in rural North Wales is bringing neglected woodlands back into productive management with the help of a loan from The Co-operative Loan Fund. Elwy Working Woods has negotiated with local landowners to manage and harvest eight woods located around the Elwy valley near Abergele. The multi-stakeholder co-operative has 12 members who are […]
Manchester based energy co-operative Biomass Energy is leading the way in the field of renewable energy, with revolutionary multi-fuel biomass boilers. The boilers use a new technology developed in the Czech Republic (but not seen in the UK before now), and burn waste such as olive pits, straw pellets, and agricultural waste, as well as more traditional […]