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Opening Doors Energy Champions Project
Funded Project: Description
The project will provide learning disabled adults with accessible education and training to empower them to make informed choices, reduce their energy usage and assist them with difficulties around energy providers.
Through workshops and one-to-one support, participants will gain practical skills to reduce energy costs and improve financial resilience.
Energy Champions will design and lead workshops covering energy use and energy saving measures, understanding your bill, and how to change energy provider. Individual adviser support will enable people to:
- understand their own billing and energy packages
- change provider if needed
- apply workshop learning to their home environment
- identify energy saving measures to take and provide support to learn to put these things into practice
Energy Champions will be learning disabled people who complete training, design accessible workshops, offer peer support, and run workshops delivering information to their peers.