£1,200 has been donated to Oban’s RNLI lifeboat station, using a unique fundraising tool at the Cruachan Visitor Centre. Visitors looking to fundraise were given small jam jars to take away, fill up with 5p’s and then return to the visitor centre. The successful idea was complimented by an RNLI pop up shop in the centre’s Kids Zone back in November, alongside bucket donation points at the entrance.
Tom Kennedy, Senior Station Technician at the Oban lifeboat station was among staff presented with the donation and commented: “It was a pleasure to meet members of the Drax team from Cruachan and to receive such a generous donation to help us save lives at sea.
“We are delighted that Drax has chosen to work with the RNLI, and all of us on the Oban Lifeboat crew look forward to continuing our partnership.”
Alongside the donation to the RNLI, Drax’s Community Fund has given £2,000 to Hope Kitchen, a local charity that aims to serve Oban, Lorn and the Isles, and provides food parcels to those most in need.
Catriona Petit, Service Manager at Hope Kitchen said: “Drax’s donation will help us to make a real difference in the local community over the festive period. Christmas can be an especially difficult time for vulnerable people and this funding will help us to continue providing essential supplies to those who need it.”
So far this year, Drax’s Community Fund has awarded over £650,000 in donations, including £57,700 to food banks 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.
Sarah Cameron, Drax’s Cruachan Visitor Centre Manager, said: “Drax is proud to support local organisations which help to strengthen our communities. Both the Oban RNLI station and Hope Kitchen will provide an invaluable service to the community over the Christmas period, and we hope these donations can support that vital work.”
To find out more about the Drax Community Fund and how to apply for funding, go to the website.
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Photo caption 1: Cruachan Visitor Centre Manager, Sarah Cameron, presents Oban RNLI Station with the donation.
Photo caption 2: Cruachan Visitor Centre Manager, Sarah Cameron, presents Hope Kitchen with the 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.
