SolarAid and Solarcentury win CSR Project of the Year

We're thrilled to announce that last night SolarAid was awarded the Corporate Social Responsibility Project of the Year at the Charity Times Awards for its partnership with Solarcentury.

This is a huge honour, not least because of the extremely high calibre of the fellow nominees. These were: Action against Hunger / Carluccio's, British Forces Foundation / British Airways and CAN / Panasonic Europe.

It was thanks to funding from Solarcentury three years ago that SolarAid was launched. The Executive Chairman of Solarcentury, Jeremy Leggett, saw a great need for the use of solar energy as a means of poverty alleviation and carbon reduction worldwide. It is because of Jeremy's vision that SolarAid is here. And since then, our partnership with Solarcentury has thrived.

We're enormously grateful to the whole team at Solarcentury for their ongoing pro bono support, which includes volunteering, consultancy, advice and graphic and product design.

Thanks too to the Charity Times for recognising this partnership as a being worthwhile, and one that really makes a difference. The judging panel described the partnership as one of excellence and one 'whose mutual benefits were obvious'.

Onwards and upwards as we strive together towards a solar future.

SolarAid's Steve Woodward and Anna Wells were at the ceremony to receive the award.