Powering Ahead - Spring / Summer 2015

Giving it Some Welly In the run up to the two year anniversary of our CSR partnership with farming charity, Rural Support, we were delighted to launch the first annual ‘Wellies to Work Day’ on Friday 5th June 2015. The campaign saw supporters donning their wellies to work and upload

selfies of themselves in their wellies to the Rural Support Twitter page using the hashtag #WelliesToWork. The viral campaign was a huge success and attracted significant engagement including a tweet from ARD Minister Michelle O’Neill who was captured with her feet up in her wellies supporting the campaign. In addition to Wellies to Work Day, we proudly sponsored Rural Support’s ‘Spring on the Farm’ colouring competition which saw Bushmills girl, Alex McCook, aged 7, win a packed chocolate hamper for her creative work. Read more .

School Visits Pupils from Carhill Integrated Primary School in Garvagh, Coleraine, visited one of Simple Power’s newest wind turbines on local farmer Ian Pollock’s Braemar Farm, home of the famous Braemar Farm ice cream. The Simple Power team gave pupils a tour of the wind turbine and highlighted first-hand how it can help reduce our carbon footprint. Also hosting our youngest group to date, nursery children from The Grove Nursery School, Armagh, made the journey to Jim McCord’s farm in Moneynick, County Antrim and saw the turbine in action and even got up close to some of the farm animals. Read more . Simple Power is always happy to host schools and youth groups - if you know of any groups interested in taking an educational tour of our turbine, please contact Jago Communications on 028 9091 8420. Wind Energy Facts Did you know...? Since 2012, small and medium wind turbines have increased their electricity generation to over 391 gigawatt hours - the equivalent of providing over 93,000 UK households with electricity

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