Welcome to January’s bumper-edition of national and local news, funding opportunities and up-coming events.

Please take time to have a good look through this month as we’ve packed in a lot of summaries and links to new funding opportunities, including:

 The newly launched Community Energy Strategy

 Urban Community Energy Fund

 Big Energy Saving Network

 Evaluation of DECC’s Local Authority Funding Competition

 Flooding In Focus – Latest information, resources and funding

 Business Resilience Support for SMEs

 New Green Loan Scheme For Local Authorities

 Wind Energy on Council Land – Support Offer from Met Office

 LGIU launch new energy efficiency network

 NW authorities win heat network funding

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