Community Fund

Four Winds recently awarded Barnsley Hospice a grant for the purchase and installation of two new water heaters. They have said: “These new efficient heaters will not only increase our water-heating efficiency by more than 16%, but also ensure we have lower energy bills and provide a constant and reliable source of hot water. Having…

The grants issued in the Financial Year 2023/24 were the following: Duckmanton School £10,000 Energise Barnsley £7,500 Climate Action NE Derbyshire £2,775 Stainsby Festival £7,376.18 Ashgate Hospice £12,210 Freedom Community Project £5,000 Chesterfield Food Bank £7,000 Barnsley Food Bank £7,000 CAB Chesterfield £7,000 CAB Barnsley £7,000    Above: LED Lighting in Ashgate Hospice, and new…

Four Winds Co-op recently attended the opening of the refurbished Ashgate Hospice which included LED lighting funded by the co-op. Thanks to funds, donations and free materials they could do a full makeover including replacing the leaking roof, total redecoration, installation of new windows and doors, installation of a self serve kitchen and creation of…

Four Winds were very pleased to be able to assist in the funding of the second composting toilet at Rhubarb Farm (https://rhubarbfarm.wixsite.com/rhubarbfarm) which increased the client base Rhubarb Farm is able to serve. Four Winds Director Eddie Peat attended the official opening of the toilet. This one composting toilet will save on the use of…

The Oxcroft centre is a former miners institute at Oxcroft. Whilst the building was relatively modern, built in 1994, it has some aged electrical systems. An application was made by the centre for replacement of internal lights with LED’s. Grant of £1,781.35 was agreed and this has been paid following completion of the works. This…

Four Winds Energy Co-operative has supported the installation of solar panels on a local primary school at Duckmanton. The solar energy system was installed in August 2016 and enable the school to reduce its energy costs. The money allocated to the community fund has been used to support the installation of solar panels on the…