E.ON Launches Humber Gateway Community Support Fund

E.ON has opened this year’s GBP 100,000 Humber Gateway Offshore Wind Farm Community Support Fund and is inviting local sustainable projects to apply for funding.

The fund was set up in 2015 to help support community and voluntary organisations as well as registered charities in the parishes which boarder the wind farm between Easington and Preston.

The closing date for entries is 31 July, 2016.

Sandra Stephens, Renewables Stakeholder Manager at E.ON, said: “Our aim is to make a real difference to people living in the surrounding parishes of our Humber Gateway Wind Farm and last year we were absolutely delighted to be able to help such a diverse and interesting range of organisations. Having seen the many improvements to local life that the scheme has already made we’d now very much like to encourage community groups and charities in need of an extra boost to apply.”

The community support fund is part of E.ON’s Humber Gateway GBP 2 million benefit fund launched in February 2015.

The 219MW Humber Gateway is located eight kilometers off the coast of Holderness, near Yorkshire. The wind farm has been in operation since September 2015.