| Year | Month | Event |
| 2007-2011 | Striving for
Financial Sustainability Heating restricted by timers Ensure all power is switched off when leaving the building Extensive fund raising effort to pay for day to day operating costs and to fund an extension to the Community Centre. | |
| 2011 | Jul-Sep | 10m x 5m extension - no extra heat provided, insulation to Building regs |
| 2013 | Jul-Sep | 8m x 4m Conservatory extension; LED lights, provision for underfloor heating but only installed 2 x1kwh electric heaters |
| 2014 | Jul-Sep | Redevelopment of Community Centre: 2 additional 10m x 5m extensions, new roof all insulated to latest building standards and internal LED lighting throughout ; underfloor heating but no means of providing heat. |
| Oct | Installed Gas supply; commissioned gas heated wet underfloor heating system. | |
| 2016 | Aug | Completed the repayments of loans for the expansion of the Community Centre - continued fund raising. |
| 2018 | Jul | Beer Fest event planning committee adopt a suggestion-motion to make the event as sustainable as possible starting with using paper straws instead of plastic ones. |
| 2019 | Mar | CA Trustees Formally adopts a Sustainability Ethos 'We will do whatever we can to do things in a sustainable manner' |
| Aug-Nov | CA members commence informal discussions re a Sustainability Project with Future Partners ( School, Cricket Club and Church) | |
| Dec | CA approach Selby AVS and Selby DC Western Community Engagement Forum to establish if they would support a Sustainability Project? | |
| 2020 | Jan | The formation of a CA led MF&H Steering Group |
| Mar | 1st MF & Hillam Community Buildings Sustainability Partnership Meeting | |
| Jul | The CA apply to the Rural Community Energy Forum for a grant to conduct a project Feasibility Study | |
| Jul | Each partner conducts their Own Energy survey to standard format supplied by Kate Urwin the Yorkshire Energy Doctor. | |
| Aug | The CA apply to the Post Code lottery for a grant to install Solar panels, a 10kwh battery and a thermal imaging camera | |
| Sep | RCEF award a stage 1 Renewable Energy Project Feasibility Study grant to the Monk Fryston and Hillam Community Buildings Sustainability Group. | |
| Oct | The Post Code lottery award a grant to install Solar panels, a 10kwh battery and a Thermal Imaging Camera | |
| Nov | Covid travel restrictions results in the CA conducting its own Energy Surveys on behalf of Locogen to their instructions. | |
| Dec | At the initiation and help of a resident apply for and win a grant from WRS to reinsulate one of the original outside Community Centre walls called the WSP Eco wall. | |
| 2021 | Jan | Take deliver of the Thermal imaging Camera and conduct a survey of the Community Centre before work begins on the WSP Eco wall re-insulation |
| Feb | WSP Re-insulation takes Place | |
| Mar | Resurvey the Community Centre with the Thermal imaging camera after the WSP Eco wall re-insulation; Identify benefits and other areas of the Centre which need attention. | |
| Mar | Installation of 7.8kwh Solar panels and have access to Solar Edge energy profile monitoring system for first time. | |
| Jun | Installation of 10 kwh Battery; first time we are self sufficient in electricity | |
| 2022 | Mar | The CA is awarded a grant from the Lottery - Communities Fund on behalf of the Partners to continue work of the Monk Fryston and Hillam Community Sustainability Project and for more sustainability work at the Community Centre. |
| 2023 | Jan-Jun | Undertake Lottery funded Energy Efficiency work at the Community Centre - Led lighting, Automated lighting controls, additional insulation and replacement Fire doors |
| Jul | Replace Gas boiler and heating system with an Air Source Heat Pump. | |
| Jul | The end of Co2 emissions from the Community Centre | |
| 2024 | May | Start Purchasing only 'Green Energy' |
| Jul | Install 2nd 10 KWh Battery along with i-boost system to maximise harvesting of solar power for self use. | |
| May-Sep | Achieve 'Net Zero' energy consumption for a 4 month period - thereby being completely energy self sufficient. | |
| Jun | The CA starts the development of the New Lottery funded website - which is committed to operate for a least 5 years to enable it to report sustainability performance data. | |
| Aug | The CA recognise that Monk Fryston and Hillam's proximity to the National Grid and the former Ferrybridge PS site is making it an Energy Transition 'Hot Spot'; Efforts are made to establish 'without prejudice' good neighbour relationships with the Project Developers. | |
| Oct | Start purchasing off peak night power to minimise cost and help maximise UK electricity generation capability by 'flattening demand'. | |
| Nov | Investigate, collate and present information to Keir Mather MP for Selby re disparities in Community Benefits being offered as part of Energy Transition Proposals | |
| Nov | In Project Update no 18 distributed to every household, the CA informs all residents of its intentions to establish good neighbour relationships with the developers without compromising residents rights to object to any proposals | |
| 2025 | Jan | The CA initiate and lead a new sub group - Together Hillam and Monk Fryston to establish what is required to take advantage of any Community Benefits which may arise from any approved Energy Transition Projects. |
| Mar | New CA website goes live with many sections still under development. | |
| Ongoing | The CA continues to monitor performance of all its Sustainability work and renewable energy technologies and will report periodically through the new website |
