Giving back to the grassroots across the island of Ireland
Community
Commitment to Community
As part of our commitment to make a positive impact in the communities that we serve, we invest in green energy and jobs, provide care for people in need, and empower clubs and teams across the country. We are the power behind the homes, schools, hospitals, factories, businesses and industries. We light up streets, keep transport moving and the economy functioning.
Greener Possibilities Fund
In our efforts to support communities across the island of Ireland in addressing climate change, Energia Group’s Greener Possibilities Fund has to date supported 15 projects and awarded over €300,000. In its second year running and aligned to UN SDG: 11 Sustainable Communities and SDG 13: Climate Action, the Fund has supported four charities namely, Global Action Plan Ireland and FoodCloud in ROI and Grow NI and Keep NI Beautiful in NI.
Community Benefit Funds
As well as the community focused engagement and programmes in the areas where we develop, construct our renewable energy developments, we seek to support the energy transition in these communities through investments facilitated by our Wind Farm Community Benefit Funds.
To date, through our benefit funds, sponsorships and household payment schemes, we have invested over €5 million in local communities, a level of support we are very proud of. With a focus on impact, in FY25, our funds supported over 120 community projects with an estimated reach of over 80,000 participants and service users.
These projects focused on specific local community needs, community groups, voluntary organisations and environmental projects situated near our operational wind energy developments.
Helping Hands
Helping Hands is a scheme that offers financial support and enables staff to take a personal approach to their volunteering, enabling them to support local groups, sports teams and community initiates that they have a connection with. In FY25 the scheme, 230 were awarded to community associations, charities and clubs across the island of Ireland equating to over €24,000 in ROI and almost £51,000 in Northern Ireland.
In Partnerships with Capita, Energia Group repurposed preloved computers and donated them to local charities and communities. These computers went to Macmillan, Christians Against Poverty, Advice NI, Omagh Food Bank and Age NI.
Partnering with Charities
Partnering with charities active at a national and local level bring our staff, customers and stakeholders together and enable us to make a positive contribution to worthy causes as an organisation.
We work with charities across the island of Ireland. This work ranges from working with Age NI to educate older people on how to save energy at home, to our ingoing support for St Vincent de Paul via a charity bag drive to help stock their charity shops, and the continued developments of a positive relationship with MABS, Alone and NOW Group.
Supporting Sports
Sport has pride of place in communities all across Ireland, and we are proud to be recognised as the title sponsor of both the Men’s and Women’s All Ireland League (AIL) and All-Ireland Junior Cup, which we have held since 2019.
As part of our overall commitment to rugby and the promotion of inclusivity, we have partnered with Leinster Ruby to set a goal to grow rugby participation among people with physical or learning difficulties to over 1,000 players in 40 clubs in Leinster by 2028.
