![Featured image for Armistead](https://www.onpathenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-49-1-832x500.jpg)
- Operational
- Wind
- Solar
At OnPath Energy, we believe local residents should benefit from our projects. We establish community funds, managed by locals, to channel income from our projects back into the local community. We also invest in local communities through training of local people and creating jobs through our promise to hire locally wherever possible.
We want every local resident to benefit from our projects. In 2023, over £1million of community funding from our projects was awarded to more than 100 community groups and environmental projects in Northern England and Scotland.
Our community funds are administered through local partnership schemes, ensuring that the money is used for projects tailored to local issues, identified by local people. By investing in projects with community-driven action at the core, we can help create long-lasting change where it’s needed most.
Our community investment promise:
channeled to local communities to date through our wind farm community funds
currently set aside for community benefits by our operational projects
in operation, with active community benefit funds
OnPath Kype Muir and Middle Muir Wind Farms have been operational since 2019. Together they’ve delivered significant economic benefits for communities nearby.
We want every local resident to benefit from our projects. In 2023, over £1million of community funding from our projects was awarded to more than 100 community groups and environmental projects in Northern England and Scotland.
Our community funds are administered through local partnership schemes, ensuring that the money is used for projects tailored to local issues, identified by local people. By investing in projects with community-driven action at the core, we can help create long-lasting change where it’s needed most.
Funding from the Kype Muir Wind Farm is directed into three different programmes to benefit local communities:
More than £1 million has been invested for these purposes since the wind farm became operational. The funding is administered by South Lanarkshire council.
Kype Muir contributes to South Lanarkshire Council’s Renewable Energy Fund (REF) – a broader fund which administers revenues from all wind farms in the region, not just those owned by OnPath. The funding supports projects that either acquire, develop, improve and/or maintain a capital asset such as land, buildings or roads, or one-off activities. Kype Muir contributed £244,691 to the REF in 2024.
Addresses local issues that are sometimes missed by traditional funding channels. The KMCP received over £400,000 from Kype Muir in 2024.
The KMCP supports key local issues like health and wellbeing, community development, disability access and environmental improvements.
The KMCP is led by community action plans and grass roots community ideas, as well as reacting to unplanned community needs, for example those that arose during the Covid-19 pandemic. Since it was established, the KMCP has awarded over £500,000 in community grants. Take a look at the latest KMCP Legacy report to learn more or browse the related news below.
We’ve created hundreds of local jobs through our investment in local businesses that help to build and maintain our renewables projects and we’ve trained local people to work on our projects. Find out more about our promise to local businesses below.
Visit our project pages to view information about each of our community funds and see how you can get involved.