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Bigger Cabbages – and other findings of our AGM

2nd October 2023

Our 2023 AGM took place on September 12th this year, and was one of the best attended to date. Unfortunately for personal reasons our speaker Karen Parkhill was unable to attend, but we were all very grateful to Professor Matthew Cotton, a Professor of Public Policy at Teeside University, for stepping in. More of him

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Solar and farming: friends or foes? Our 2023 AGM

3rd September 2023

Is the growth of solar power really posing a threat to farming in the UK? That’s the question that we’ll be asking at our Annual General Meeting on September 12th this year. Solar farms are appearing across the UK, sometimes causing controversy where they are seen as spoiling a landscape or replacing traditional farming. A

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Our 2020 AGM: high on possibility, low on cakes

20th November 2020

Like many organisations, we held our first ever online AGM this year, and we are very pleased to say that it went off pretty much without a hitch and with one of our highest attendances for any AGM, despite the absence of the cake that has been our standard bribe to members for years. If

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Changes on the horizon

23rd October 2020

We have some fairly big YCE news to share with you ahead of our upcoming AGM: we have decided to become a Community Benefit Society (CBS)! Currently YCE is a volunteer-run unincorporated membership association with HMRC charitable status. This has served us well until now, but it was only ever meant to be temporary. We

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2019 AGM report: Healing our homes in an age of heating

15th December 2019

Facing up to the challenge of making 25 million UK homes ready for the low carbon world we need is a huge challenge. With government and the housebuilding industry having pretty much deserted the fight, community energy organisations are stepping up to try to find a way forward. For our AGM this year we heard

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AGM 2019: making homes fit for the future

19th October 2019

Our 2019 AGM will be taking place on Wednesday October 30th in the Denham Room at the Priory Street Centre, York YO1 6ET (map), with the main event starting at 7:30pm. It’s time for the annual catch-up with the latest in community energy! This year our focus has turned to what we can do to

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Our 2018 AGM: Smartening Grids and Greening Grimsby

28th August 2018

It comes around so quickly! The York Community Energy AGM will be taking place on Thursday September 6th, with talks kicking off at 7:30pm, at our now-customary location of the Friends Meeting House on Friargate (YO1 9RL). Come and hear about the massive changes going on in our energy grid – and more news from

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2017 AGM report: is Manchester really so much Greater?

24th November 2017

York Community Energy held our 2017 AGM at the Friends Meeting House on October 10th, with success stories from Greater Manchester and exciting news about the progress toward community energy in York. As usual, we got the official business out of the way quickly and moved on to our panel of speakers. YCE Chair Richard

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Our 2017 AGM, featuring Trans-Pennine Tales

25th September 2017

We’d like to extend to all an invitation to our 2017 AGM, taking place Tuesday October 10th from 7pm to 9:30pm at the Friends Meeting House, Friargate, York YO1 9RL (map). As with last year, the event will be split so we can get all the formal business out of the way quickly. Doors will

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An energetic AGM

16th June 2016

Last week was our second ever AGM. If you couldn’t make it – well, it was a pretty packed agenda! We asked members to arrive at 7pm for the business meeting section. We got the basics over and done with pretty quickly: the treasurer’s report on our modest finances and the election of our management

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