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Cosy Homes Advisor Summary
Tackling Fuel Poverty in the Home
The project is aimed at the most vulnerable people who are struggling with their energy use and those who are suffering with cold and damp related illnesses due to not having adequate heating and insulation. The Cosy Homes Advisor will be available to look at options, solutions, grants and funding that can be accessed to help finance the measures required, and will also support the client through the whole process to ensure that the vulnerable and the infirm are able to heat their homes adequately and at a reasonable cost.
Some people need help understanding how to use their energy more efficiently in their homes and the ‘Cosy Homes Advisor’ will be able to look at ways to improve the efficiency of the property and how they use, manage and pay for their heating and electricity. They will also be at hand to train people in their homes on how to use their energy appliances if need be.
If a client has health issues due to having an inadequate heating system, the ‘Cosy Homes Advisor’ will look at ways of finding sources of funding/grants to enable them to change their heating system. Renewable heat systems may be an option (solar hot water and biomass heating). There is a small crisis fund available for those clients who can not afford to pay for all the measures. The advisor will assess each case and identify the work needed to improve their levels of warmth, comfort and quality of life.
The Cosy Homes Advisor project is funded by the Big Lottery and ScottishPower Energy People Trust. The project will benefit many households. The referrals to the scheme will be sent to the qualified energy advisor by frontline workers and partner organisations (e.g. Age Concern, L.A, Social Services, Care and Repair) that have identified individuals and households who may be at risk of fuel poverty and who may fall out of the standard eligibility criteria (HEES) to access grants.
The target audience comprises the older person, young families, single parents and single men or women.
If you have any questions about the project please contact:
Tina Shevlin (Cosy Homes Advisor) Project Manager
01239 821905 or 01239 820235
Tackling Fuel Poverty in the Home -
Read the latest project progress report
Winner of the NEA/ScottishPower Heat Hero Awards 2011
Here is Tina (left) picking up her award with Energy Advisor Helen Manley Jones 9right) and local MP Stephen Crabb (centre). Also in the picture Neil Clitheroe CEO of ScottishPower (left) and Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan (right)
The project is aimed at the most vulnerable people who are struggling with their energy use and those who are suffering with cold and damp related illnesses due to not having adequate heating and insulation. The Cosy Homes Advisor will be available to look at options, solutions, grants and funding that can be accessed to help finance the measures required, and will also support the client through the whole process to ensure that the vulnerable and the infirm are able to heat their homes adequately and at a reasonable cost.
Some people need help understanding how to use their energy more efficiently in their homes and the ‘Cosy Homes Advisor’ will be able to look at ways to improve the efficiency of the property and how they use, manage and pay for their heating and electricity. They will also be at hand to train people in their homes on how to use their energy appliances if need be.
If a client has health issues due to having an inadequate heating system, the ‘Cosy Homes Advisor’ will look at ways of finding sources of funding/grants to enable them to change their heating system. Renewable heat systems may be an option (solar hot water and biomass heating). There is a small crisis fund available for those clients who can not afford to pay for all the measures. The advisor will assess each case and identify the work needed to improve their levels of warmth, comfort and quality of life.
The Cosy Homes Advisor project is funded by the Big Lottery and ScottishPower Energy People Trust. The project will benefit many households. The referrals to the scheme will be sent to the qualified energy advisor by frontline workers and partner organisations (e.g. Age Concern, L.A, Social Services, Care and Repair) that have identified individuals and households who may be at risk of fuel poverty and who may fall out of the standard eligibility criteria (HEES) to access grants.
The target audience comprises the older person, young families, single parents and single men or women.
If you have any questions about the project please contact:Tina Shevlin (Cosy Homes Advisor) Project Manager 01239 821905 or 01239 820235
tina@ecocentre.org.uk
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