About Us

EASYTOWN COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

EasyTown Community Interest Company believes communities should accept responsibility for the welfare of their members and the next generation.  A key part of this is giving households and communities sufficient productive capacity to generate real wealth from the local economy.

Under its HomeZone economy trading brand, EasyTown identifies commercial opportunities and exploits them to generate profits for local charities to reinvest back into the community and for households to increase their wealth. EasyTown's work falls into 5 areas in which the company believes it can make a difference, namely:-

Energy - promoting renewables
Banking - universal, affordable banking services for all
Retail - boosting the high street and buying local
Equity - fighting fuel poverty
Information - ID assurance on the web

For further information please visit The Institute for Local Self Reliance

EasyTown's first area of action is renewables. Under its HomeZone economy trading brand, EasyTown supplies renewable energy technologies to domestic and business customers with profits being shared with local charities. EasyTown's green technologies include:

1 Solar panels which convert sunlight into electricity

2 Solar thermal heating which uses the sun to provide hot water

3 Wind turbines which catch the wind to provide electricity

4 Hydro power which harnesses running water to make electricity

5 Ground/air/water heat pumps for generating hot water

6 Biomass heating which burns wood for heating and hot water

7 Anaerobic digestion for turning waste food into electricity/heat

All HomeZone's green technologies generate regular, monthly, government guaranteed, index linked, payments to the user for 15 to 25 years. They represent an excellent financial investment as well as reducing your carbon emissions and helping to combat climate change.

HomeZone will introduce banking, retail and equity services in 2011 with information services following in 2012.

Community Interest Companies (CICS) are limited companies, created for the use of people who want to conduct a business or other activity for community benefit. A "community interest test" and "asset lock"ensure the CIC is established for community purposes and the assets and profits are dedicated to these purposes. 65% of EasyTown dividends are distributed to the community with the other 35% being used to fund company growth. An example of what happens to EasyTown operational revenues generated is given here.  Registration of a company as a CIC has to be approved by the Regulator who also has a continuing monitoring and enforcement. 

CIC Regulator Registration Number 6704262

Enquiries: office@easytown-uk.com


SAVE THE WORLD CLUB

Save The World Club is a local registered charity and EasyTown's partner in Kingston upon Thames. SWC specialises in turning the eyesores of Kingston into beautiful pieces of art with mosaic murals to cover graffiti. SWC works with thousands of local people and helps teach artistic and civic appreciation. The charity works with young offenders, school groups and workplace teams and helps bring a sense of community ownership into the town. In SWC's own words:-

"Our award-winning work has upgraded many areas, including Kingston station, Elm Road playground, Mount Primary School, Canbury Passage, Kingsnympton and Cambridge estates, Castle Street in central Kingston. Residents love our work. Graffiti in Kingston is much less visible. Young people who work with us have a huge sense of pride in their neighbourhood and many will never start graffiti.

In addition, Save the World Club have been providing hundreds of children’s and family based holiday clubs, after school clubs and workshops in Kingston for the past five years covering a range of exciting topics such as community mosaic, bicycle repairs, sculpture and scrap arts, painting and design, circus skills and events and festival organisation.

The success of the group, especially in attracting, and maintaining, continued relationships with some of the most disadvantaged families and citizens in our community, has made a real impact on the confidence of many people previously considered a problem in their local community.

But we just can’t do it alone. We absolutely need your help. The local council RBK, and several individuals support our charity enormously but rising costs mean we are struggling to keep afloat. Grants from funding bodies like the Home Office are not available in a “wealthy” area like Kingston upon Thames and yet we work with many young people who have very little access to other activities to keep them off the streets. We have to work very hard indeed to raise every penny to run our club and programmes.

That is why, in partnership with EasyTown, we are taking a more proactive, innovative approach to fund raising. By helping you obtain the goods and services you need to run your lives we will be funding ourselves as well as greening the planet!"

http://savetheworldclub.org/

Charity Commission  Registration Number 1096271

Enquiries: info@savetheworldclub.org