Community of Practice for Community Retrofit

Despite huge interest, ‘Able to pay’ householders in the UK are failing to benefit from effective retrofit services, denying them the benefits of retrofit including carbon reductions, comfort and cost savings. An increasing number of community-led organisations have an ambition to meet these consumers’ needs by delivering fee earning retrofit services and adopting associated business models. 

Recent research carried out by Centre for Sustainable Energy for Access Foundation demonstrates the scale of interest from the community-retrofit sector and sets out the range of challenges they face including lack of capacity, trained staff, and access to appropriate technical support and tools. 

Using a Community of Practice approach, the project will work with a collection of growing community retrofit services around the UK, all at different levels of maturity and development, but all on the ground and delivering retrofit services now, to assist their growth. 

They will help scale these aspiring Community Retrofit services, assisting the transfer of knowledge and expertise and accelerating the growth and maturity of their work whilst growing the sector more broadly and benefitting householders by increasing access to retrofit services.