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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 VisitsPupils 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