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This Annual Review covers the financial year ending March 2023 as well as impact numbers and future plans. Download Now

  In the burgeoning ‘solar revolution’ of sub-Saharan Africa, we are seeing an incredible number of people being reached with clean and affordable energy for the first time. When we started 13 years ago, it was just us. Now there are hundreds of companies looking to serve people with solar energy. However, growth is limited. […]

The Design Museum’s Teacher Summer School took place on 23rd – 25th July and was led by designer and creative director of Future Product, Henry James. Henry helped to design the SM100 light that makes up part of the Design Museum’s handling collection and is a staple of the Museum’s national outreach programme. Over the […]

“It’s about the passion to teach, and it’s about seeing these children, who has seen to be underprivileged, to get them to a certain level.” Ms. Michelo has been working at Nyakantingi Primary School in Zambia for 2 years. It is a small rural village school, located along a narrow dusty road, far from the main […]

Prince Philip, 95, opened the new Design Museum in west London yesterday with the support of students from Sion Manning Roman Catholic Girls’ School and SolarAid’s SM100 solar light. The event marked the launch of the new £83million Design Museum building in Kensington, which opens its doors to the public on the 24th November. The […]

  Kenya is the fastest growing solar market in Africa thanks to its reputation for being a hub of East African entrepreneurship. Our social enterprise, SunnyMoney, has sold nearly half a million lights in the last few years, reaching over 3.2 million people. That equates to around $175 million in savings over the lifetime of […]

What is renewable energy? Renewable energy, often referred to as clean energy or alternative energy, comes from natural sources or processes that are constantly replenished. It is sustainable and something that can’t run out – like the sun. Renewable energy is an alternative to energy that relies on fossil fuels like oil, gas, and coal […]

In November last year, SolarAid attended Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Discover 2018 in Madrid – an exhibition showcasing the latest technology for business and IT professionals. Here, a human-sized robot packed 1,500 of our SM100 solar lights to be sent off to three projects in Zambia. HPE was pleased with its success and so invited […]

  Following in the footsteps of our SunnyMoney student lights campaigns, which have led the way in scaling access to solar lights for millions of people across East Africa, we are pleased that Oxfam has run a pilot following early discussions with our team. Based on our work, this pilot has brought 1,668 solar lights to families […]

SolarAid is delighted to announce that it has made the shortlist for this year’s Charity Awards, the longest-running and most prestigious awards scheme in the charity sector. SolarAid has been shortlisted in the International Aid and Development category for its Light a Village project in Malawi, which is a ground breaking programme aiming to bring […]