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Funded Energy Redress Projects

Since the Energy Redress Scheme launched Phase One of the scheme in 2018, Energy Saving Trust has awarded over £102 million to fund nearly 538 projects across England, Scotland and Wales. These grants have enabled organisations to deliver projects that help energy consumers in vulnerable situations to save energy and money in their homes and to live warmer, more comfortable lives. Phase Two of the scheme launched in May 2022.

To find out more about the projects we have funded, see the full list, which can be filtered.

You can also find specific case studies of some of the funded projects here.

Full list of projects

This is a complete list of successfully funded Energy Redress Scheme projects since 2018.

Phase 1
Round 5
Charity
Citizens Advice Edinburgh,
Location
United Kingdom
  • Scotland
  • Edinburgh
Grant award
£51,007
Project Name
The HEAT Partnership

The HEAT (Home Energy Advice & Training) Partnership will provide individually tailored, accessible advice to vulnerable consumers within Edinburgh.  The service will create an innovative partnership with the Edinburgh & Lothian Regional Equality Council (ELREC) to engage with clients who are marginalised due to language difficulties, cultural barriers, or lack of confidence or awareness of how to obtain energy advice.  The service will also work in partnership with the Edinburgh City Mission Food Bank network, to offer vulnerable clients energy advice at the point of crisis.

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The HEAT (Home Energy Advice & Training) Partnership will provide individually tailored, accessible advice to vulnerable consumers within Edinburgh.  The service will create an innovative partnership with the Edinburgh & Lothian Regional Equality Council (ELREC) to engage with clients who are marginalised due to language difficulties, cultural barriers, or lack of confidence or awareness of how to obtain energy advice.  The service will also work in partnership with the Edinburgh City Mission Food Bank network, to offer vulnerable clients energy advice at the point of crisis.

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Phase 1
Round 5
Charity
Groundwork UK
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • Birmingham
Grant award
£636,560
Project Name
Energising Communities (October 2019)

This project will utilise Groundwork’s community-based projects and local partnerships in disadvantaged communities to identify and help vulnerable energy customers in most severe need.

Working in partnership with local agencies, they will target those with least control over their energy use, who are vulnerable to living in cold homes and who do not engage with other services, delivering high quality domestic energy advice and energy saving measures to households that need it most.

Energy awareness training will be delivered to 150 community-based groups and experienced Community Energy

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This project will utilise Groundwork’s community-based projects and local partnerships in disadvantaged communities to identify and help vulnerable energy customers in most severe need.

Working in partnership with local agencies, they will target those with least control over their energy use, who are vulnerable to living in cold homes and who do not engage with other services, delivering high quality domestic energy advice and energy saving measures to households that need it most.

Energy awareness training will be delivered to 150 community-based groups and experienced Community Energy Advisers will support 2,800 vulnerable households, offering bespoke home-based advice on energy use, behaviour change, switching, and benefits/debt support alongside small energy saving measures.

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Phase 1
Round 5
Charity
Stockton and District Advice & Information Service
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • Stockton-on-Tees
Grant award
£367,437
Project Name
Warm Up North

The project aims to provide energy advice to vulnerable consumers by bringing together Citizens Advice Bureau with health and social care services charities, to deliver targeted support to vulnerable people in the areas of the North East with high levels of fuel poverty.

The project will use the knowledge of services and agencies working with people with health conditions, including Local Authorities and Health Services and The Stroke Association, to effectively target and then deliver energy advice to households where a person has a long term health condition or a disability. 

Phase 1
Round 5
Charity
Age Concern Tyneside South
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • South Shields
Grant award
£49,568
Project Name
Age Concern Tyneside South

Two Information and Advice staff will be trained to Level 3 City and Guilds in Energy Awareness, so that they can offer high quality energy advice to 300 vulnerable older people aged over 60 in South Tyneside.

The project will improve take up of energy saving measures, ensure residents are in the best position to pay for their energy costs and will use their Handy Service to implement small measures within older people's homes.

 

Phase 1
Round 5
Charity
Citizens Advice Fylde
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • Preston
Grant award
£48,632
Project Name
Fylde Energy

Fylde Energy will help some of the most vulnerable people in their locality to improve their energy health in the short and longer term. 

Open days will be used to raise awareness of energy issues and the support on offer, followed by a series of Energy Health Clinics offering one-to-one appointments to help people address their immediate energy issues. The clinics will be run at their offices in Kirkham, at outreach locations including GP surgeries and through home visits.  

Phase 1
Round 5
Charity
Live Inclusive
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • Doncaster
Grant award
£111,130
Project Name
Recharge

Live Inclusive is a Charity supporting people with disabilities and long-term health conditions. This project will see the charity recruit two energy advisers to support 620 clients with disabilities/long term health conditions living in Doncaster and Rotherham. The advisers will provide home visits and workshop sessions aimed at the target audience. They will also attend community events and develop energy knowledge amongst their volunteers.

Phase 1
Round 5
Charity
the Environment Centre
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • Southampton
Grant award
£173,184
Project Name
Switched on Portmouth

“Switched on Portsmouth” will reach out and support vulnerable and disadvantaged communities at risk of fuel poverty. It will complement and extend the reach of existing activities, through a single point of contact for affordable warmth advice and support in the city.

Winter warmth campaigns will raise awareness amongst the public and front line services about how to keep warm and well and home visits will be offered to vulnerable households requiring in depth hand-holding support with energy issues.

Phase 1
Round 5
Charity
Age UK East London
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • London
Grant award
£49,887
Project Name
Warm and Well at home

Warm and Well at Home aims to support the oldest vulnerable energy consumers. 

It will help them to stay warm and well at home by using experienced handy-people to install small, practical measures in the home, alongside high-quality energy saving advice.

 

Phase 1
Round 5
Charity
Citizens Advice Manchester
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • Manchester
Grant award
£89,200
Project Name
Switched On - Young People's Energy Advice

A partnership between Citizens Advice Manchester and Salford University to deliver a unique combination of user-led research and energy support, to fuel poor young people across the City of Manchester.

Citizens Advice Manchester will employ and train 2 young people, aged between 18 and 25 to become peer to peer ‘Energy Ambassadors.’ They will work with young people (drawn from lone parents, vulnerable families, care leavers etc) to test a range of engagement and delivery models, aimed at raising awareness of energy efficiency and encouraging changes in behaviour to help them move out of fuel

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A partnership between Citizens Advice Manchester and Salford University to deliver a unique combination of user-led research and energy support, to fuel poor young people across the City of Manchester.

Citizens Advice Manchester will employ and train 2 young people, aged between 18 and 25 to become peer to peer ‘Energy Ambassadors.’ They will work with young people (drawn from lone parents, vulnerable families, care leavers etc) to test a range of engagement and delivery models, aimed at raising awareness of energy efficiency and encouraging changes in behaviour to help them move out of fuel poverty.

The research will be used to develop a toolkit on how to encourage, engage and promote positive behaviours around energy for young people.

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Phase 1
Round 5
Charity
North Devon Homes
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • Barnstaple
Grant award
£163,419
Project Name
Making heat cheaper, smarter and greener - Boxergy

This project will trial a new technology called Boxergy, which combines highly efficient electric heating with energy storage. With a time of use electricity tariff, the system can significantly reduce the heating costs for households currently using night storage heaters and aims to offer heating costs comparable to or cheaper than gas boilers.

There will be 7 Boxergy systems installed, benefiting 9 socially rented homes using night storage heaters and located in villages between South Molton and Tiverton in North Devon. These will include 3-bedroom houses which will have an individual

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This project will trial a new technology called Boxergy, which combines highly efficient electric heating with energy storage. With a time of use electricity tariff, the system can significantly reduce the heating costs for households currently using night storage heaters and aims to offer heating costs comparable to or cheaper than gas boilers.

There will be 7 Boxergy systems installed, benefiting 9 socially rented homes using night storage heaters and located in villages between South Molton and Tiverton in North Devon. These will include 3-bedroom houses which will have an individual Boxergy system and semi-detached bungalows which will share a system. 

The project will include an evaluation carried out by National Energy Action (NEA), investigating resident satisfaction, ease of use, running costs and reliability. Performance will be compared to the resident’s previous energy consumption and against comparable households with night storage heaters .

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