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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 10
Charity
Forth Valley Sensory Centre
Location
United Kingdom
  • Scotland
  • Falkirk
Grant award
£83,914
Project Name
Making Sense of Carbon Efficiency

The Making Sense of Carbon Efficiency project aims to help people with sight and/or hearing loss better understand their energy bills and provide practical advice on how to save energy in the home. This information is not always accessible to deaf or blind people, with many leaflets not available in large print, braille not often an option and few firms providing BSL services that enable deaf people to ask about their bills.

By supporting with applications to Home Energy Scotland for home improvements and help people better understand their personal carbon footprint, this project will

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The Making Sense of Carbon Efficiency project aims to help people with sight and/or hearing loss better understand their energy bills and provide practical advice on how to save energy in the home. This information is not always accessible to deaf or blind people, with many leaflets not available in large print, braille not often an option and few firms providing BSL services that enable deaf people to ask about their bills.

By supporting with applications to Home Energy Scotland for home improvements and help people better understand their personal carbon footprint, this project will showcase how people can make small changes that help us all on the journey to net zero.

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Phase 1
Round 10
Charity
REAP (Rural Environment Action Project)
Location
United Kingdom
  • Scotland
  • Keith
Grant award
£73,430
Project Name
WarmWell Moray

WarmWell Moray will continue REAP's energy advice work to tackle fuel poverty amongst vulnerable people in Moray. People in this rural area will be supported to make appropriate changes to their situation - to be warm and well through energy saving measures, small grants, advice and referral on to other services.

Phase 1
Round 10
Charity
Beat the Cold
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • Stoke-on-Trent
Grant award
£227,013
Project Name
Smart Solar in Cannock

Beat the Cold will work with Chase Community Solar to increase savings to the Council tenants that have solar PV on their bungalow roofs. The project aims to significantly increase the amount of the solar energy residents use by introducing domestic battery technology and providing tailored customer advice and energy education.

Phase 1
Round 10
Charity
Community Action Northumberland
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • Morpeth
Grant award
£147,995
Project Name
Remote Northumberland Energy Advice

The Remote Northumberland Energy Advice project will see two part-time Energy Advisors recruited to provide one-to-one advice and support to the remote rural communities of Northumberland. The charity will raise awareness of the advice service through the existing network of over 20 ‘Warm Hubs’ and recruiting additional volunteers to their Community Energy Agent network. The advisers will provide telephone and email advice, run promotional roadshows and will promote other existing support services.

Phase 1
Round 10
Charity
Friends of St Nicholas Fields
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • York
Grant award
£49,042
Project Name
York Energy Advice & Training

This York Energy Advice & Training project will improve the lives of vulnerable households in York by providing quality advice directly to householders and to the support staff that works with them. New Energy Advisors and a Retrofit Co-ordinator will tailor advice to householder needs. The project will involve partnerships working with existing support groups to reach those in need.

Phase 1
Round 10
Charity
Rhondda Cynon Taff Citizens Advice
Location
United Kingdom
  • Wales
  • Pontypridd
Grant award
£50,043
Project Name
Empowered

The Empowered project will provide free social welfare advice, case-work and support, to vulnerable energy consumers to reduce fuel poverty across Rhondda Cynon Taff. A part-time Specialist Energy Adviser will undertake holistic assessments of each consumer’s needs, to identify the root causes of their energy problems and to find solutions.

Phase 1
Round 11
Charity
Habitats & Heritage
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • Twickenham
Grant award
£144,958
Project Name
South West London Energy Advice Partnership

South West London Energy Advice Partnership (SW Leap) is a new energy efficiency advice service for vulnerable consumers that offers home energy visits, telephone, email and online advice and conducts outreach visits to talk to users of community centres and other local service providers. All advice given is recorded and estimates of the financial savings and carbon reduction impact of the service are made. Volunteers are trained to give energy advice and gain work experience, giving them practical skills to assist in entering the expanding green jobs market.

Phase 1
Round 11
Charity
Macmillan Cancer Support
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • London
Grant award
£354,505
Project Name
Tackling fuel poverty caused by cancer (2)

 

Tackling fuel poverty caused by cancer will provide an Energy Advice Team to support people with cancer by giving energy savings advice. There will now be an additional team of Advisers who assist both with energy advice and household income maximisation (ie claiming benefits or securing grants) to reach a wider range of vulnerable people and provide a 'one-stop' approach to improving the household financial situation and keeping homes warm. This expert team now take referrals not only from the Macmillan telephone helpline and also from Macmillan health professionals working in local

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Tackling fuel poverty caused by cancer will provide an Energy Advice Team to support people with cancer by giving energy savings advice. There will now be an additional team of Advisers who assist both with energy advice and household income maximisation (ie claiming benefits or securing grants) to reach a wider range of vulnerable people and provide a 'one-stop' approach to improving the household financial situation and keeping homes warm. This expert team now take referrals not only from the Macmillan telephone helpline and also from Macmillan health professionals working in local communities and hospitals.

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Phase 1
Round 11
Charity
Aberfeldy Parish Church
Location
United Kingdom
  • Scotland
  • Aberfeldy
Grant award
£80,020
Project Name
Warm Connections

Warm Connections provides a free, impartial energy advice service to households in Aberfeldy and the surrounding area, where there is a predominance of rural, off the gas grid households. The main aims of the project are to give advice ranging from behavioural changes through to signposting to grants and loans, and securing emergency financial support for those in fuel debt, raise awareness of home energy use, mental wellbeing and climate change by informing and educating the general public about actions that can be taken and support which is available. 

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Warm Connections provides a free, impartial energy advice service to households in Aberfeldy and the surrounding area, where there is a predominance of rural, off the gas grid households. The main aims of the project are to give advice ranging from behavioural changes through to signposting to grants and loans, and securing emergency financial support for those in fuel debt, raise awareness of home energy use, mental wellbeing and climate change by informing and educating the general public about actions that can be taken and support which is available. 

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Phase 1
Round 11
Charity
NDVS (North Devon Voluntary Service)
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
  • Barnstaple
Grant award
£133,749
Project Name
Warmer Homes North Devon

Warmer Homes North Devon will work to support vulnerable patients with health issues and those more at risk from the impacts of Covid-19 which could be made worse by living in a cold home. It will provide one-to-one in-depth personalised energy advice to patients, when they are at their most vulnerable and may have energy related money issues or risk living in a cold and damp house through a Warmer Homes Advisor and volunteers who will work alongside hospital discharge teams, working as part of ‘help returning home’ schemes to provide patients with energy advice, home visits and case work for

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Warmer Homes North Devon will work to support vulnerable patients with health issues and those more at risk from the impacts of Covid-19 which could be made worse by living in a cold home. It will provide one-to-one in-depth personalised energy advice to patients, when they are at their most vulnerable and may have energy related money issues or risk living in a cold and damp house through a Warmer Homes Advisor and volunteers who will work alongside hospital discharge teams, working as part of ‘help returning home’ schemes to provide patients with energy advice, home visits and case work for those needing extra support.

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