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Hornsea 3 Community Benefit Fund Announces First Awards
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21 groups are celebrating the good news that they have been selected to be the first to receive grants through the new Hornsea 3 Community Benefit Fund. The groups will share a huge £249,052 windfall.
Launched earlier this year, the Fund has £700,000 per year available to support local groups and organisations in the North Norfolk and East Anglia region. The Fund is split into three pots: the main Community Fund of £500,000 (awarded through two funding rounds each year), an annual Skills Fund of £100,000, and an annual Legacy Fund of £100,000 which will go to one capital green project per year, to encourage long term positive influence in the region.
Monies for the Fund are being made available as part of Ørsted’s project to create the world’s single largest offshore wind farm, Hornsea 3, which will be located in the North Sea, approximately 121 km off the Norfolk coast and 160 km off the Yorkshire coast. The wind farm will be capable of generating 2.9 GW of green electricity, enough to meet the average daily needs of 3.3 million homes. The Hornsea 3 Community Fund will award a total of £7 million over a targeted ten-year period.
Read the full story and a list of successful applicants in the first Community Fund round here.
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