Hook Norton gets share of green community grant

February 10, 2010: The village of Hook Norton, in Oxfordshire, is one of 12 communities to have won up to £500,000 each to adopt green technologies such as solar panels, hydro turbines and insulation, the Department of Energy and Climate Change has announced.

And among those to benefit will be Hook Norton Brewery, which will gain a bio-diesel tank to supply fuel for the vehicles of 50 households.

Energy and climate change minister Joan Ruddock said the winners would act as a test bed for green action "and show us all what a greener future looks like".

She said: “This sort of action is vital because over a quarter of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions come from heating, lighting and powering electrical appliances in our homes. By 2050 this needs to be almost zero and we can only achieve that through the creative initiative of local communities.”

Hook Norton managing director, James Clarke, said: “The community has been working on reducing its carbon footprint for a number of years and we fully support what they are doing. All these activities will provide income back in to a rolling low carbon fund so that the community can continue to take action for the next 10 years.”