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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 721 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 6
Charity
Motherwell & Wishaw Citizens Advice Bureau
Location
United Kingdom
  • Scotland
Grant award
£278,233
Project Name
Community Advice to Reduce Energy Spending

Partnering with Airdrie CAB they will provide a single, trusted point of contact for vulnerable energy consumers across North Lanarkshire experiencing issues around energy usage and debt situations including food bank users.

Tenants and homeowners will access multi-channel support (phone, email, webchat, face to face and home visits) and their holistic approach will ensure they challenge all aspects of fuel poverty affecting the clients.

Phase 1
Round 6
Charity
Venus Working Creatively with Young Women
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£88,101
Project Name
Energy Support Project

This project will provide advice, support and advocacy concerning affordable energy and fuel poverty to vulnerable women and families living in South Sefton. The project will employ an Energy Support Co-ordinator who will work with a team of Money Management Mentor volunteers to deliver the project at the Venus Centre through drops ins and phone/email consultations.

They will deliver an outreach service within the family home, at drop-ins at local family centres and through a pilot of a new Meanwhile Money Management Shop such as pop-up spaces in local shopping centre.

Phase 1
Round 6
Charity
Caudwell Children
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£390,806
Project Name
Keeping Disabled Children Warm

Caudwell Children will utilise their expertise in supporting parents/carers of disabled children to identify, engage and support families to address energy efficiency and affordability. Working in partnership with Auriga, a specialist advice organisation, 10,000 families will receive energy information and 2,000 families will have detailed home surveys, efficiency advice, and income maximisation advice, appropriate to their needs. 

Phase 1
Round 6
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Project Name
Better Housing Better Health
Phase 1
Round 6
Charity
Centre for Sustainable Energy
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£191,000
Project Name
ABLE (Assisting B&NES on Local Energy

The project will support disabled (including older/frail) people in Bath & North East Somerset. It will fund a team of fuel poverty advisors to deliver support to the target audience, will train local volunteers, including those who are disabled to provide advice and work with local frontline health, social care agencies, charities, council and Housing Association (Curo), to identify people needing the support.Those living in heritage homes (common in Bath) will receive tailored conservation-specific advice and partners will be trained to understand fuel poverty and refer to the project.

Phase 1
Round 6
Charity
Lancashire Women
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£329,772
Project Name
Energy Advice for Lancashire Women

Eight of Lancashire Women’s staff members will be trained to provide energy advice to their existing client base, most of whom are in vulnerable situations. This energy advice would be integrated into one-to-one sessions delivered through their money advice service and also delivered through standalone sessions on energy advice as well as delivered through workshops and events focused on energy advice plus integrated into wider projects and support delivered across the Lancashire Women service

Phase 1
Round 6
Charity
National Energy Action (NEA)
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£138,809
Project Name
Increasing self-consumption of solar PV

The project will deliver support and advice to over 7000 low income and vulnerable households with PV (Solar Photovoltaic) technology on their homes to maximise use of the solar energy and reduce energy bills.

Working with social housing providers the project will identify properties in three locations in England, develop and disseminate easy to understand information, provide intensive support where needed, and provide small measures to support with optimising benefits of the system.

Information leaflets will be complemented by a suite of videos and web-based resources. Complementary

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The project will deliver support and advice to over 7000 low income and vulnerable households with PV (Solar Photovoltaic) technology on their homes to maximise use of the solar energy and reduce energy bills.

Working with social housing providers the project will identify properties in three locations in England, develop and disseminate easy to understand information, provide intensive support where needed, and provide small measures to support with optimising benefits of the system.

Information leaflets will be complemented by a suite of videos and web-based resources. Complementary bespoke training on PV and battery storage will be offered to front line workers operating in the target areas.

Households receiving information can seek further support via telephone, advice clinics or home visits. NEA will conduct an independent evaluation of the PV system performance and small measures provided to appropriate households. The project will establish the usefulness of these technologies in maximising PV energy use and reducing energy bills.

In addition, NEA will identify any misbehaving PV systems, assessing the impact of this failure on bills, and investigate barriers to repairs, reporting and discussing this with the relevant system owners. The long-term performance of systems will be assessed and downtime due to faults investigated. The impact of ownership models (social landlord or ‘rent a roof’ / existing servicing agreement) will be considered.

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Phase 1
Round 6
Charity
Citizens Advice Calderdale
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£69,471
Project Name
Keeping Calderdale Cosy

The ‘Keeping Calderdale Cosy’ project will visit 200+ vulnerable clients at home to support them with a wide variety of home energy issues and income maximisation work and will deliver a preventative programme of information sessions to at least 500 people over two years. The project will also provide training for at least 100 front line workers, including their own advisers and volunteers.

Phase 1
Round 6
Charity
Marches Energy Agency
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£36,713
Project Name
Telford Energy Advice (TEA)

An energy advice project to be delivered in the Telford & Wrekin area that aims to reach 10% of fuel poor homes through freephone, face-2-face advice, events, mobile exhibition and frontline staff training. Small measures will also be available to those who have home visits.

The plan is to support 770 households through drop-in sessions, home visits and a Freephone advice-line. They will also attend 20 community events and take an exhibition van to high-footfall events to support 200 people. Briefings provided to ten organisations, to reach 150 frontline staff, targeting health and social

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An energy advice project to be delivered in the Telford & Wrekin area that aims to reach 10% of fuel poor homes through freephone, face-2-face advice, events, mobile exhibition and frontline staff training. Small measures will also be available to those who have home visits.

The plan is to support 770 households through drop-in sessions, home visits and a Freephone advice-line. They will also attend 20 community events and take an exhibition van to high-footfall events to support 200 people. Briefings provided to ten organisations, to reach 150 frontline staff, targeting health and social care.

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Phase 1
Round 6
Charity
Northumbrian Citizens Advice Bureau
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£258,692
Project Name
Redress to Reassess Northumberland

A partnership of Citizens Advice Northumberland and Northumberland Community Blind Association. The project links two organisations with a history of delivering support to some of the county’s most vulnerable residents and will provide in depth face-to-face energy efficiency, accessibility and fuel related solutions to fuel poor households across Northumberland.

The advice and advocacy include support around income maximisation, reducing fuel costs through switching, membership of community oil schemes and energy saving behaviour. Low Vision Coordinators and specialist volunteers will help

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A partnership of Citizens Advice Northumberland and Northumberland Community Blind Association. The project links two organisations with a history of delivering support to some of the county’s most vulnerable residents and will provide in depth face-to-face energy efficiency, accessibility and fuel related solutions to fuel poor households across Northumberland.

The advice and advocacy include support around income maximisation, reducing fuel costs through switching, membership of community oil schemes and energy saving behaviour. Low Vision Coordinators and specialist volunteers will help those with sensory impairment to make use of technology to help them better manage their energy use

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