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​Locality: Battersea, London
Asset owner: Devas Youth Club
Energy saved: 14 tonnes of CO2e per annum (soon to be 31 tonnes!)
Money saved: £3,400 per annum 
Tech used:
  • Phase 1: LED lighting and Hydromx within the heating system
  • Phase 2: building management system, additional LED lighting, secondary glazing, destratifiers
  • Phase 3: air source heat pumps

low carbon project

  • LED lighting and Building Management System
CREW Energy achieved a community energy first by installing LED lighting and a building management system during phase 1 of its transformation project at Devas Club in 2019. In December 2018, CREW was awarded £12,500 in funding by the GLA London Community Energy Fund (Phase 2) to work on this project.

This will cut energy usage by 25%, amounting to a carbon saving of 11.72 tonnes per annum and a combined total of £3,400 on their energy bills. These savings can be reinvested in core service delivery to the Club members and other community groups. 

  • Secondary glazing and destratifiers
Following this initial phase, throughout 2020, CREW implemented more LED lighting, secondary glazing and destratifiers. CREW was awarded £27,000 by the Wandsworth Local Fund to complete this work. 
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  • Air source heat pumps
In March 2021, we completed the install of four air source heat pumps on the roof of the youth club. These heat pumps were fully funded through our first every community share offer, completed in December 2020-January 2021. We raised £50,000 through community investment and Community Shares Booster Funding.

​Read more about our successful share offer here.

“We are delighted that the UKPN's grant has enabled us to install LED lighting and a building management system throughout the youth centre, not only to save running costs, but to help us fulfil our target of reducing our emissions by 5% per year over the next three years."

- Johnny Devas, Director of Devas Club

About the Devas club

Founded in 1884 just off Lavender Hill in Battersea, south-west London. The Devas Club serves young people daily providing a range of activities and services. The Club also leases office space to small social enterprises which work with young people both in the UK and around the world to improve educational outcomes and the well-being and confidence of young people.
 
The Devas Club offers a youth club five time per week with activities including dance workshops, five a side football, home work clubs, music production with an onsite recording studio among other activities. It also provides space hire for other community groups including an older people’s kitchen once a week providing a hot meal and company for local residents at risk of isolation.
 
The club had solar PV installed several years ago and is keen to become a sustainability beacon in the local community as well as leveraging the opportunity to engage and educate young people in sustainability topics. CREW will support Devas to achieve its sustainability goals, and facilitate learning and engagement with end users in the journey. ​