Ellingham Community Trust

Happy New Year to all Parishioners. As a reminder Ellingham Community Trust provides benefits to parishioners in four ways :

Solid Fuel Scheme. The 2026 Solid Fuel Scheme will launch in the Spring.

Green Scheme. This scheme is designed to help parishioners with the cost of environmentally friendly purchases.

Training, Education and School Support Scheme (TESS). This scheme is designed to support study, full time education or a training courses at a higher or further education establishment or youth activities that promote health and wellbeing.

Community Projects Fund. This scheme covers community wide projects, and previously has supported St Maurice’s Church and Ellingham Village Hall. 

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All funds are open to permanent residents of the parish, all funding is at the discretion of the Trustees to make the best use of the monies provided to the community.

Ellingham Community Trust AGM was on 6th November at 7pm at Ellingham Village Hall, with tea and coffee from 6.45pm.

The AGM was attended by a good number of parishioners with a lively question and answer session. Ellingham Community Trust wishes to thank all parishioners who attended (as well as the Trustees for their hard work during the year).

Updates to Ellingham Community Trust Objectives were approved and are here.

This is to update you about Ellingham Community Trust’s Solid Fuel Scheme. If you have ordered hardwood you will have already received details about how to contact the supplier. Owing to harvest timings, the supplier will not be able to delivery any more deliveries until October at the earliest. 

For heat log applicants, these will be delivered in October/November. Further details will be provided closer to the point of delivery. 

Coal applicants will be sent details of the supplier by the end of September for you to order coal for this winter.   

For cash applicants, the cash will be paid into your specified account in November.  

If you have a change in circumstances, or know of neighbours who are moving in or out please get in touch using ellinghamcommunitytrust@gmail.com.

Ellingham Community Trust.

Hi, 

Parishioners who have ordered Hardwood from the Ellingham Community Trust Solid Fuel Scheme can order your wood directly from the supplier (Alastair Nixon a.nixon@farmline.com) for delivery at a time convenient to yourselves. The supplier Alastair Nixon is able to deliver 20 loads of logs now, and the further delivery amount after October (owing to harvest commitments).

Parishioners who have requested heatlogs, coal and cash will be contacted later in the year regarding delivery and payment.

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Ellingham Community Trust email address is bouncing from 10% of parishioners emails.

A solution is being worked on. In the mean time, please follow these instructions. Please check that our email is not in your Blocked Senders and add our email to the Safe Senders list.

The 2025 Solid Fuel Scheme has now closed.

You do not need to do anything if you have already applied, and received an email saying your application has been logged.

If you have applied and not received a response by the 5th June please make contact to confirm your application status.  

Ellingham Community Trust AGM takes place annually in November. The minutes of the last AGM are available in draft on the Archived minutes page here.

Parishioners are welcome to attend Ellingham Community Trust AGMs. The next AGM date is set for 6th November 2025.

Click here for the latest Parish Magazine, full of the latest parish information as well as extracts of the Ellingham Parish Council and Ellingham Community Trust minutes.

Printing of the Parish Magazine is funded by Ellingham Community Trust. Ellingham Community Trust is committed to proving the Parish Magazine free of charge to parishioners. Like all costs, printing costs are increasing. If you would like to receive a digital only Parish Magazine please contact the Clerk here with your name and postal address.

Ellingham Community Trust Fund is a Charitable Trust funded by Wandylaw Wind Farm Ltd to be disbursed for benefit of the community and parishioners of Ellingham. The fund is managed by a board of trustees. The purpose of the Trust is to support developments for the benefit of the communities and individuals within Ellingham Parish. The activities must provide some measure of economic, environmental, educational, social or cultural benefit for people living in the parish. Wandylaw Wind Farm Company Ltd will pay the agreed figure of £36,869 annually into the Trust Fund while the Wandylaw Wind Farm is operational. The Trust works with other local organisations to support the community.