Community Energy Services

Pure Leapfrog offers a consultancy service for community energy groups to design, develop, and finance their projects.

Our services include modelling, legal and financial support, business case development, and personalised guidance from experienced professionals.

Get in touch to hear how we can help you turn great ideas into real projects.

Establishment and ideation

If you’re completely new or at an early stage in your journey as a community group, we can support your group in laying its foundations; setting out a clear vision and your guiding principles from which to progress. This includes:

Engaging your community

Establishing your community group/ a suitable development legal entity

Identifying project opportunities

Preparing project feasibility and financial viability

Preparing organisation development plans

Securing seed funding for your first and early activities
Grant application support- we have a strong record on securing Great British Energy Community Fund grants, and supporting groups to progress from feasibility to development grants

Project Development

When you’ve identified a project or projects and are at the point of setting up the legal and financial aspects to get your project(s) off the ground, we can provide the expert input to ensure your project is a success and “shovel ready”. This includes:

Project Management

Financial modelling and risk assessments

Technical modelling & Reports

Stakeholder engagement

Grid connection arrangements

Landowner agreement negotiations

Statutory consents – pre-planning application, planning application, Listed building consent, Church Faculty

Project finance – grants, community share offers, bond offers

Delivery and Beyond

We work alongside you through every stage of getting your project built and connected, for example:

Statutory consents: Biodiversity Net Gain, Planning Conditions, Section 106 Agreement
Grid connection arrangements

Procurement/ tendering of installation works

Tender Analysis

Commissioning support and handover

Operational support and growth

Once a community energy enterprise has asset(s) installed the group doesn’t always have the capacity or capability to keep the project running. We provide a suite of back office-services to help ensure a group’s assets are running as expected and support your growth.

Shared ownership opportunities

We can help communities to take advantage of shared ownership opportunities in their area, providing support through all stages of negotiations with the clean energy asset developer.

Pure Leapfrog have demonstrated a rare combination of professionalism, friendliness, responsiveness, and deep industry knowledge. Working with them has felt like a genuine partnership rather than a standard consultancy arrangement.

Dan Wills, Net Zero Project Lead, Diocese of Bath and Wells

Theme: Buildings, Energy, Finance, Social
When?: Current

Diocesan Community Energy Model

Church of England land and buildings have enormous untapped potential for community energy. We're working with the Diocese of Bath & Wells to develop a practical model to unlock it.

Theme: Buildings, Energy, Finance, Social
When?: Current

Energy Advice for Mortgage Prisoners

Mortgage Prisoners face some of the highest housing costs in the UK and are often pushed into fuel poverty. Working with UK Mortgage Prisoners, we are creating a sensitive, trusted national energy advice service designed specifically for this excluded community.

Theme: Buildings, Carbon, Social
When?: Current

Let Zero

Let Zero is the UK’s first retrofit One Stop Shop service for the Private Rented Sector, helping landlords and tenants navigate home energy/ retrofit improvements. Piloted in South Yorkshire, and currently in a growth phase.

Theme: Carbon, Energy, Social
When?: Current

Wildersmoor Hall Farm

Pure Leapfrog developed the business case for Lymm’s 2.5MW solar scheme, showing how community‑matching models connecting local generation with local consumers could unlock stronger revenues while maximising community benefit and long‑term impact.

Theme: Carbon, Energy, Finance, Nature, Social
When?: Current

Heights Quarry

We're supporting development of a 637kWp community solar farm in Weardale, generating clean, affordable power for 100 homes and businesses from a repurposed limestone quarry, with surplus fed into the grid.

Theme: Buildings, Carbon, Social
When?: Recent

Retrofit for Lets

Retrofit for Lets tackled barriers to energy efficiency in The Private Rented Sector in Warrington. It engaged 172 landlords through tailored advice and policy‑focused messaging, delivering 47 retrofit assessments.

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