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Dear Madam / Sir,

The 9carrots project is successfully signing up 70% of local community businesses approached to investing in environmental upgrades. It does this with an innovative model and environmental groups around the country are starting to follow suit. We need funding to provide them the core services they need to implement the scheme and re-connect their communities.

9carrots seeks to strengthen the supportive relationships between community and local business by providing them with a way to co-operate in the fight against Climate Change. Participating retailers choose upgrades that will make their business more energy efficient, 9carrots advertises them and consumers support them. Each business commits 10% of the extra revenue they make from the extra 9carrots customers towards their target upgrade.

Our pilot study in conjunction with Transition Town Brockley, South London, signed up over 40 diverse local businesses to the scheme. 1 business in the pilot study area has already upgraded its lighting to energy efficient lights as a result of the community support.  After the pilot study, 9carrots received a millenium award from UnLtd.

The project is now rapidly growing in popularity:

• A steadily increasing number of Transition Towns around the country (currently 12) are waiting to implement the scheme and the founders of the Transition movement are actively promoting the idea.
• People and Planet groups around the UK have started implementing the scheme.
• Goldsmiths University is actively supporting the project.
• EthicalConsumer magazine covered 9carrots in its July edition.
• 1 London Council is actively implementing the scheme and another has proposed it.
• Supporters in the Green Party have spoken publicly in favour of the scheme.
• The first 9carrots franchise is currently being set up in Canada.
• CarrotMobs from around the world are contacting 9carrots as their next move.

More information is available on our website at http://9carrots.org. Please let us know what you think of the project.

Yours faithfully,

Annesley Newholm
Co-founder,
9carrots not-for-profit
+44 (0) 789 409 8970