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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 £150 million to fund nearly 660 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
Rhondda Cynon Taff Citizens Advice
Location
United Kingdom
  • Wales
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 10
Charity
Blairgowrie and Rattray Development Trust
Location
United Kingdom
  • Scotland
Grant award
£99,044
Project Name
The HEAT Project

The HEAT Project will expand the existing advice service to meet the growing demand for energy advice and support. New online and video-based home energy advice materials will be developed, and they will work with the local authority, community groups, tenants' associations, letting agents and others, to reach as many households as possible. 

Phase 1
Round 10
Charity
Community Energy Plus
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£294,013
Project Name
Energy Advice for Positive Mental Health

Energy Advice for Positive Mental Health will work with consumers with mental health issues to lower their energy consumption and make financial savings to reduce fuel poverty. In partnership with Cornwall Mind, they aim to improve the clients mental wellbeing by providing targeted appropriate support, helping them sustain engagement with the energy advice team. Direct emergency measures and crisis intervention will be provided for households failing to achieve basic warmth.

Phase 1
Round 10
Charity
Greener Kirkaldy
Location
United Kingdom
  • Scotland
Grant award
£197,217
Project Name
Help to Keep the Heat In

Help to Keep the Heat in will address the increase in demand for support from Fife households that are struggling to heat their homes affordably. Using a wide and deep community engagement approach to ensure maximum reach and participant benefit, they will train new referral partners, recruit a team of local energy champion volunteers to act as trusted local connectors and work in neighbourhoods with high levels of deprivation to deliver support where it is most needed.

Phase 1
Round 10
Charity
Rotherham Federation
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£217,203
Project Name
Rotherham Energy Angels

Rotherham Energy Angels is a project demonstrating how vulnerable energy customers can change habits to reduce energy consumption and costs. “Energy Angels” will deliver group and individual training, advice and support in energy awareness and efficiency through face-to -face groups, home visits, email, zoom and phone calls. Around 1,500 vulnerable households from ten fuel poverty hotspots across Rotherham will take part, reducing the impact of fuel poverty on their families.

Phase 1
Round 10
Charity
Bromley by Bow Centre
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£340,203
Project Name
East End Energy Fit

East End Energy Fit will provide energy advice and assistance to households in or at risk of energy crisis, focussing especially on the most vulnerable. Households will be helped with immediate debt relief work through grant applications, advocacy on payment plans and bill disputes, and improving long-term affordability by switching tariff/supplier, accessing discounts and maximising income.

Phase 1
Round 10
Charity
Community Energy Plus
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£139,132
Project Name
Sustainable Homes Advice Cornwall

Sustainable Homes Advice Cornwall aims to increase the uptake, accessibility and affordability of carbon reduction improvements for rural energy consumers. Sustainable Home Advisers will:

  1. Demystify the low carbon energy market and technologies for older, rural consumers.
  2. Facilitate and promote independent, self-help advice to carbon reduction technologies.
  3. Provide consumers with independent whole house assessments and advice to make informed choices.
  4. Help consumers reduce the cost of carbon reduction measures through access to local grants and funding schemes.
Phase 1
Round 10
Charity
Linstone Housing Association
Location
United Kingdom
  • Scotland
Grant award
£47,029
Project Name
Linstone Energy Savings Support (LESS)

The Linstone Energy Savings Support (LESS) project will provide targeted and intensive advice and support to their most vulnerable tenants to mitigate the issues causing them to experience fuel poverty and make a positive impact on their health and wellbeing. Delivered as part of Linstone's Response Team working in association with other local partners that support those in the most vulnerable.

Phase 1
Round 10
Charity
Scarf
Location
United Kingdom
  • Scotland
Grant award
£398,815
Project Name
Dundee Home Energy Advice Team (D-HEAT)

The Dundee Home Energy Advice Team (D-HEAT) project in Dundee city will deliver tailored advice to clients identify where small measures such as draughtproofing, LED bulbs and Radiator Panels could make an impact and will provide these measures. They will also offer free and impartial advice to homeowners and private lettings through free home visits and phone advice to support householders out of fuel poverty.

Phase 1
Round 10
Charity
Centre for Sustainable Energy
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£150,147
Project Name
Smart and Fair Energy Choices Tool

The Smart and Fair Energy Choices Tool will support energy advisors across Great Britain to assess the various smart energy offers available for their clients, in relation to their specific household circumstances. The tool, designed with user and beneficiary input, will allow advisors to give robust tailored advice to each client about the suitability of different available offers, the associated benefits, what is needed to realise them, and the risks involved and how to avoid them.

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