Make the Masbro Centre run on Sunshine!

Following on from the success of the project you supported - Make the Masbro Run in Sunshine project in 2019/2020 - we are planning to replicate the success at Edward Woods Community Centre. To date, at Masbro, we have saved approximately £8k in electricity bills and generated over 20,000 KwH. YOU made that happen. The Edward Woods Community Centre, based in the heart of Hammersmith & Fulham, is aiming to install 92 solar panels on the roof of the centre to generate its own renewable electricity, and use money saved to support much needed community projects. Based in an area of social deprivation, the centre enables residents to take part in any number of low or no cost activities including; health and exercise classes, a children’s centre, adult education, and parenting support. Currently we also provide emergency food distribution to over 200 households on the estate and surrounding area. To pledge or simply to find out more about the benefits of the project please click here: https://www.spacehive.com/ewccsunshine UPG have already raised £53,500 of the £79,500, and the fundraising campaign continues until 30th June 2021. Therefore, it would be great if you could pledge, towards our project and get liking and sharing on Social Media. Thank you as always for your support. All at UPG

Firstly I do hope you and your families are keeping well. We had big plans to invite you to a formal launch of the Masbro Centre Solar Panels on Monday 30th March, where we had planned a wonderful celebration for all our supporters to make a very public THANK YOU – but then the world changed and all our plans went on hold. However, as you know the sun kept on shining and the solar panels kept working. We have recently had a monitoring system installed so we can see the progress we are making. I’m delighted to share with you at the time of writing through our production of green energy we have: • Prevented 3551.60 kg of Carbon Emissions – the same as a 23,677 km car journey • Which is the equivalent of planting 91 trees. At the Masbro Centre, during this time we have continued to support individuals and families remotely, making over 700 ‘connect and care’ calls a week. In addition, we provide food to over 100 families in need from the Masbro and another 400 families from our White City and Edward Woods Community Centres – that’s over 7000 food packages since the pandemic started. We are hoping to return to something near ‘normal’ in September and the money that we no longer spend on electricity bills will go towards supporting the community that now need our help more than ever - you are part of making that happen. We can’t thank you enough and we will get together at some point in the future to celebrate this community success.