St Werburgh's city farm
Our grants supported the installation of LED lighting and a new heating system, allowing the charity to spend more of its income on delivering its vital community services.
Many of these community spaces act as warm refuges for local people to connect and access support services but they are also often cold and expensive to heat. Thrive’s funding will help keep these vital spaces open, reducing their energy bills and lowering their carbon footprint.
One of our grantees from 2024 was St. Werburgh’s City Farm located near Avonmouth wind farm in Bristol. Nestled in the Inner City, the farm connects the local community with accessible green space whilst offering targeted community services that equip people with knowledge, skills and confidence. St. Werburgh’s Farm used their £3,350 grant from Thrive to install a new electric heating system and LED lighting to make their largest community building usable throughout the winter.
Our grant from Thrive Renewables towards LED lighting and a new heating system is going to save money for our charity and enable us to spend more of our income on delivering our community services. It will make our community building usable this winter, which is so important because it is our largest space and is where our Supported Farming & Green Care service is based when their cabin becomes too cold, as well as being a space used regularly by our wider community. It’s great to be reducing our climate impact, and I hope this will be the start of a new phase of activities to improve energy efficiency across our sites.