The donations will support food banks located near Drax’s facilities in North Yorkshire, Scotland, and Northamptonshire, helping to provide essential food and supplies to hundreds of people struggling with the rising cost of living.
Each foodbank has been awarded £2,000:
- Selby Community Fridge – Near to Drax Power Station, North Yorkshire
- Stepping Stones – Near Galloway Hydro Station, Dumfries and Galloway
- Hope Kitchen Oban – Near Cruachan Power Station, Argyll and Bute
- Clydesdale Food Bank – Near Lanark Hydro Station, Lanarkshire
- Viewpark Family Centre – Near to Daldowie Fuel Plant, Lanarkshire
- Love Ipswich – Near to Drax’s office in Ipswich, Suffolk
Jane Breach, UK Community & Education Manager, said: “These donations are part of Drax’s ongoing commitment to making a difference to local communities in the areas we operate.
“Christmas can be an especially difficult time for many, and we hope these donations will help food banks meet the increased demand for their services and provide vital support to those in need.”
Chris Hailey-Norris, Chief Executive of Up for Yorkshire said: “I am utterly delighted by the generous donation gifted to the Community Fridge. This will make such a difference to the hundreds of people we support each week and enable us to provide additional essential provisions for people. Thank you so much.”
So far this year, Drax’s Community Fund has awarded over £650,000 in donations, including £57,700 to foodbanks across the world. Donations from the fund have also been given to other food and essentials organisations, youth programmes, education and employability schemes, physical and mental health charities, community spaces and organisations that strengthen the communities where Drax operates.
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Photo caption 1: The Drax team presents Up for Yorkshire with their donation.
Photo caption 2: Cruachan Visitor Centre Manager, Sarah Cameron, presents Hope Kitchen with their donation.
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About Drax
Drax’s purpose is to enable a zero carbon, lower cost energy future. Our strategic aims are to be a global leader in both carbon removals and sustainable biomass pellet production, and to be a UK leader in dispatchable, renewable generation.
Our operations
Drax owns and operates a portfolio of flexible, low-carbon and renewable UK power assets – biomass, hydro, and pumped storage generation – which provide dispatchable power and system support services to the electricity grid.
We are the UK’s largest source of renewable power by output, and Drax Power Station is the UK’s largest single source of renewable electricity by output.
Through our pellet production facilities in North America, Drax is the world’s second largest producer of sustainable biomass. Drax has 18 operational and development pellet production sites which will have a nameplate capacity of around 5.4 million tonnes once expansions are complete.
Drax supplies renewable electricity to UK industrial and commercial customers, offering a range of energy-related services including energy optimisation, as well as electric vehicle strategy and management.
Our future
Drax is progressing options for carbon removals using bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) technology globally and at our UK biomass power station. We are progressing plans to develop 7 million tonnes of carbon removals through BECCS by 2030.
In 2024, we launched Elimini, a US-based company to lead our global efforts to deliver carbon removals at megaton scale. Elimini’s purpose is to remove carbon for good. To achieve this, it is convening engineers, environmentalists, communities, investors, and innovators to scale the market for carbon removals, with the aspiration of transforming our economies from carbon emitters to carbon removers. For more information, visit elimini.com.
