“For many community buildings and schools, LED lighting is one of the quickest and most straightforward ways of reducing electricity bills, with quicker results than other methods.”

We hope you are enjoying summer, and managing to stay cool 🌞.

In this month’s newsletter - LED Lighting in Lewisham, how Selce came together in 2014 despite none of us knowing each other, announcing the Festival of Climate Action in September and… a poem.

Please do share this newsletter with any friends, relatives or contacts you think would also be interested.

LEDing the Way to Energy Efficient Lighting with Edmund Waller Primary School

Find out how one school in Lewisham is saving £20,000 per year on its electricity bills, alongside eight tonnes of CO2 emissions, with zero upfront cost.

All funded through a combination of grants, and Selce’s last community share offer.

Through our community funding model, plus other local grants, we provide solutions that benefit both the building, the people who use it and the wider community.”
- Lawrence Chude, LEDing the Way Projects Officer, Selce

NEW: Selce’s Festival of Climate Action

“If we act as individuals, it will be too little. But if we act as communities, it might just be enough, and it might just be in time.”

- Rob Hopkins, co-founder of Transition Network

We’re extremely excited to announce our latest event - the Festival of Climate Action on Saturday 13 September.

Everyone is welcome to join what will be a fun, practical day of collaboration, discussion and action on local responses to climate change - big and small.

Make sure you have a place right now / or if you’d like get involved as a local community, climate or other group - or as an individual, if you just have an idea to suggest - simply reply to this email.

How We Made Selce

For Community Energy Fortnight, our co-founder Camilla Berens tells the story of how Selce came about - with plenty of tips for anyone keen to get involved in community energy, or set up any type of co-op, non-profit or climate group:

“I think that’s the transition that we need to make now – from our screens to the street and into our communities… Community and people power are the magic ingredients for a sustainable future!”

Praise for our Energy Advisor Paul

Ending with a Poem for #CEF2025

We are just one of many
community groups making tiny stiches.
Turning churches, rivers and hills into places
where magic can happen: where sun and wind
becomes power and hope. We ain’t giving up.

Community Energy Fortnight 2025 was a national celebration of people-powered energy, powered by Community Energy England.

In that spirit, we wanted to share the following poem written a few years back. It gives a small flavour of how we feel as community energy groups, our motivations and challenges. 💡

The video location is our solar installation at Horniman Primary, which last year saved the school around £5000 and 7400kg in CO2 emissions, the equivalent of planting roughly 35 trees.

Watch the video.

And watch this space for Selce’s newest share offer, coming to a rooftop near you soon!