13 July 2009 14:53
E.ON’s Sustainable Energy fund helps Children and Donkeys charity go solar
Energy company E.ON has awarded £5,264 to the Elizabeth Svendsen Trust for Children and Donkeys for solar powered fencing at the charity's centres in Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Sidmouth and Ivybridge.
Each centre is home to specially trained donkeys that provide riding therapy for more than 150 children with educational needs every week.
John Akers, Chief Executive of the Elizabeth Svendsen Trust, said: "We're so thankful to E.ON for the funding, which will help us to buy solar powered fencing energisers at all of our five centres in the UK. At the Trust we're very keen to be green and this will be a great environmentally-friendly product.
"The fencing will help secure donkeys safely in their paddocks and the money saved by E.ON's kind donation will be a huge help, as all of the services our charity has to offer are provided free of charge."
Tony Jenkin Jones, Community Relations Executive for E.ON, said: "The Elizabeth Svendsen Trust provides an amazing service for so many children and we're absolutely delighted to be able to award them this funding, so they can harness a green technology and reduce costs too.
"The teams at the Trust are incredibly passionate about sustainable energy it's our hope that this award will make all the difference to them and to the fantastic facilities they have across the country."
The Sustainable Energy Fund is backed up by a dedicated web resource which provides top tips on energy efficiency and sustainability and full details of how to apply for a grant. To access it go to www.eon-uk.com/sustainableenergyfund. The next deadline for applications is 16th October 2009.
Ends
Notes to editors:
- E.ON is one of the UK's leading power and gas companies - generating and distributing electricity, and retailing power and gas - and is part of the E.ON group, one of the world's largest investor-owned power and gas companies. We employ around 17,000 people in the UK and over 93,000 worldwide;
- We're one of the leading green generators in the UK, with 21 wind farms located from Cornwall to Northern Ireland. We own one of the UK's largest dedicated biomass power stations at Lockerbie. Combined, our renewable portfolio generates enough green energy to power the homes in a city the size of Manchester;
- We are investing £50 million in new technologies and approaches over the next 10 years, through the Energy Technologies Institute;
- Our green development portfolio could power over a million homes and displace the emission of almost two million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year by building new onshore and offshore wind farms, biomass power stations, and tidal stream and wave power schemes.
For more information contact:
Rebecca Bieniaszewska on 024 7618 3202