Thermal Imaging camera loan service relaunches!
Following a successful thermal imaging loan service pilot demonstrated by project AURORA, the Forest of Dean District Council set up its own thermal imaging loan
30 October 2025
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Forest Community Energy is Celebrating!
Community Benefit Society Legal Status We are delighted to announce that on 1st October 2025 Forest Community Energy CBS Ltd officially became a Community Benefit
27 October 2025
Forest Community Energy’s Energy Saving event
Forest Community Energy organised and hosted a community event on the 25th October 2025 – this was the last public event ran with the support
27 October 2025
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Forest Community Energy support a local community hub get solar
Forest Community Energy, in collaboration with Gloucestershire Community Energy Co-op Ltd. (GCEC) and Gwent Energy CIC have supported the Sling Community Hub to get solar
30 June 2025
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Forest Community Energy chair attends the Octopus Energy Tech Summit
Helen Jeffrey, Forest Community Energy chair and AURORA Ambassador, tells us about Octopus Energy’s annual Energy Tech Summit she attended in London. This was a
30 June 2025
News
Thermal imaging loan service rolled out in the Forest of Dean!
Following the success of our Sling & District Recreation Club thermal imaging pilot, we’ve collaborated with Forest of Dean District Council (FoDDC)’s Retrofit Engagement Officer,
29 May 2025
Supporting our energy community to self-organise – what have we learnt?
As we enter into the last year of the AURORA programme, it is important that we support our energy community Forest Community Energy build a
17 April 2025
Forest Community Energy – where are we now?
Since December 2024, the AURORA Forest of Dean team with the support of facilitators at Holding the Space have been on a journey to help
17 April 2025
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Students explore the impact of apps on behaviour change
UK demo-site partner CSE hosted a workshop centred around the use of apps to shift attitudes and drive behaviour change towards less carbon-intensive lifestyles at
16 April 2025
News
Community Solar Installed at The Speech House Hotel
The Forest of Dean has its first Big Solar Co-op community solar installation completed, generating clean, renewable energy at The Speech House Hotel. The installation
17 February 2025
Event
Forest Community Energy: The Way Forward
Since 2021, AURORA has supported Forest Community Energy (FCE) to get out into the community and deliver meaningful events, workshops, and training, as well as
17 February 2025
Unlocking community energy at scale: Forest Community Energy member responds to government inquiry
Forest Community Energy (FCE) member and AURORA Ambassador Helen Jeffrey has responded to the UK Government’s “Energy Security and Net Zero Committee Inquiry: Unlocking Community
11 February 2025
Forest Community Energy host visit from Octopus Energy
Forest Community Energy (FCE) and the AURORA Forest of Dean team organised and hosted an exciting event in October with Octopus Energy – one of
11 November 2024
Forest Community Energy hosts a drop-in Solar Energy Information Day
The AURORA Forest of Dean team supported Forest Community Energy (FCE) volunteers to host a Drop-in Solar Energy Information Day at The Main Place –
14 October 2024
Forest Community Energy’s Priority Asks
The AURORA Forest of Dean project has supported Forest Community Energy to develop a set of “Priority Asks” for Forest of Dean District Council. The
23 August 2024
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AURORA Forest of Dean participates in Rural Climathon
Earlier this year, the AURORA Forest of Dean team and members of the energy community (Forest Community Energy) took part in a ‘Rural Climathon’. This
8 July 2024
Article
AURORA Forest of Dean interviews Big Solar Coop
Amy Staff from the Centre for Sustainable Energy caught up with Noel Lambert, the Big Solar Co-op’s Community and Content Lead to discuss some highlights
5 June 2024
Promoting the AURORA Energy Tracker app in the Forest of Dean
Given an initial slow uptake of the AURORA Energy Tracker app in the Forest of Dean, the AURORA FOD team have designed a promotional campaign
30 May 2024
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Learnings from the thermal imaging camera loan pilot scheme in Forest of Dean.
Following a thermal imaging demonstration event at the Sling Club, a local community space in the Forest of Dean, AURORA Forest of Dean and Forest
2 May 2024
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AURORA Forest of Dean hosts energy advice events at local community centre
AURORA Forest of Dean and Forest Community Energy (FCE) volunteers held two “Energy Café” style events at a local community centre – the Sling &
12 March 2024
