Community Energy London (CEL) warmly invites you to an event exploring "How can we best cooperate to support both new and existing groups to develop sustainable and equitable community energy businesses?"

Bring questions and ideas to this informal session for experienced practitioners and energy newcomers alike, all are welcome.

This will be a welcoming space, which offers the chance to have questions discussed by the community energy community in London over food and drink - provided free. We will follow Open Space style principles for the evening and rules will be explained at the beginning of the evening.

Agenda

6pm - Welcome, explanation of open space and introductionss

6.15pm - Posing questions

6.30pm - Nibbles and networking while questions are clustered

6.40pm - First sessions 2-4 groups

7.30pm - Brief feedback from each group

7.40pm - 15 mins break

7.55pm - Second sessions 2-4 groups

8.45pm - Brief feedback from groups

8.55pm - What next and thanks

9pm - Finish and social at nearby watering hole

Whether you just want to learn about your local community energy group, start one of your own, or find out how your existing group can scale up its operations, this is the event for you! We might not always know the answer, but we usually know someone who will!

This should be a high energy, interesting evening and should be both inspiring and practical!

If you have your own portable cup or mug - please bring it with you to reduce waste!

The facilitator for the evening will be Alex Hartley, Co-founder Director of South East London Community Energy www.selce.org.uk and a Vice chair of CEL. She has twenty years of facilitation experience and has been involved with community energy since 2004.