
- 42 organisations across the UK, US and Canada were the beneficiaries of grants to support community-led projects
Communities in the UK, U.S and Canada have been given a funding boost with support from the Drax Community Fund during the first half of 2025, helping to fund community-led projects in the communities where Drax operates.
The Community Fund was established by Drax back in 2023, to support grassroots organisations and activities with donations of £500 to £10,000 to support STEM education and skills, enhance green spaces and improve communities local to its operations.
“We are proud to support a diverse range of groups and projects in the communities where we operate with the Drax Community Fund,” said Jane Breach, Drax’s UK Community and Education Manager.
“This latest round of grants will help to support wonderful initiatives that empower young people with community sessions, offer schools much needed resources and provide local communities with equipment for seasonal celebrations.”
Some of the projects that will receive donations from the Drax Community Fund, include:
Camblesforth Social Events
An organisation which provides events for Camblesforth, North Yorkshire and its surrounding villages to take part in community activities and fun days, has received £2,000 to support the running of its 2025 Spring Fayre.
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A robotics club at West Monroe High School in Louisiana, have been awarded £1,500 ($2,000) to support the provision of STEM materials to allow students to engage in hands-on STEM learning and experimentation.
Goole Youth Action
A youth organisation dedicated to providing opportunities and activities for young people in Goole, North Yorkshire, were awarded £1,000, to support a trip for young people aged 11-16 to visit the Skylark Centre at Drax Power Station.
Kilmartin Primary School
A primary school in Lochgilphead, Argyll, were awarded £395 to provide schoolchildren with a visit to Cruachan Power Station.
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About Drax
Drax’s purpose is to enable a zero carbon, lower cost energy future. Our strategic aims are to be a global leader in both carbon removals and sustainable biomass pellet production, and to be a UK leader in dispatchable, renewable generation.
Our operations
Drax owns and operates a portfolio of flexible, low-carbon and renewable UK power assets – biomass, hydro, and pumped storage generation – which provide dispatchable power and system support services to the electricity grid.
We are the UK’s largest source of renewable power by output, and Drax Power Station is the UK’s largest single source of renewable electricity by output.
Through our pellet production facilities in North America, Drax is a leading integrated producer of sustainable biomass. Drax has 18 operational and development pellet production sites which will have a nameplate capacity of around 5.4 million tonnes once expansions are complete.
Drax supplies renewable electricity to UK industrial and commercial customers, offering a range of energy-related services including energy optimisation, as well as electric vehicle strategy and management.
Our future
Drax is progressing options for carbon removals using bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) technology globally and at our UK biomass power station. We are progressing plans to develop 7 million tonnes of carbon removals through BECCS by 2030.
In 2024, we launched Elimini, a US-based company to lead our global efforts to deliver carbon removals at scale. Elimini’s purpose is to remove carbon for good. To achieve this, it is convening engineers, environmentalists, communities, investors, and innovators to scale the market for carbon removals, with the aspiration of transforming our economies from carbon emitters to carbon removers. For more information, visit elimini.com.