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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 £213 million to fund nearly 790 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
Round 5
Charity
Youth Cymru
Location
United Kingdom
  • Wales
Grant award
£49,849
Project Name
Chillout & Save Your Energy

This project will work with young people to educate and train them to engage with energy issues, providing the understanding, tools, personal support and resources that they need to make better informed choices and decisions regarding energy.

A toolkit will be developed to help specialist youth workers integrate energy advice into their work with young people and the project will enable four social action projects to be developed by young people across Wales.

Phase 1
Round 5
Charity
Ashfield Citizens Advice Bureau
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£49,960
Project Name
Ashfield Energy Efficiency

This charity aspires to tackle the high fuel poverty rates in their area by providing a 2-year energy advice service, focused on the most vulnerable clients in their area.

Working with other partners and stakeholders, clients will be helped to save money on their energy bills through face to face advice and support in accessing energy efficiency grants, to further prevent them from suffering from fuel poverty.

Phase 1
Round 5
Charity
Energy Projects Plus
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£173,222
Project Name
Energy Action For Warmth

A street by street approach to deliver energy advice to vulnerable residents across the Wirral. Energy Action For Warmth will take learning from their Sustainable Seacombe project into a new area, being the town of Greasby.

The team will split the communities into "micro areas" of approximately 175 homes and on a weekly basis will conduct an awareness campaign within a micro area, to engage with as many residents as possible. This will take the form of door-knocking, home visits, local community drop-in events and telephone advice. 

Advice will be delivered by qualified energy advisers who

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A street by street approach to deliver energy advice to vulnerable residents across the Wirral. Energy Action For Warmth will take learning from their Sustainable Seacombe project into a new area, being the town of Greasby.

The team will split the communities into "micro areas" of approximately 175 homes and on a weekly basis will conduct an awareness campaign within a micro area, to engage with as many residents as possible. This will take the form of door-knocking, home visits, local community drop-in events and telephone advice. 

Advice will be delivered by qualified energy advisers who can refer people onto other appropriate support services too.

 

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Phase 1
Round 5
Charity
Severn Wye Energy Agency
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£113,010
Project Name
Energy Advocate - South Gloucestershire

This project is a partnership between Severn Wye Energy Agency (SWEA) and Sirona Care and Health. It will provide targeted support to hard-to-reach vulnerable people who often fall through the net of conventional fuel poverty programmes. SWEA will embed a trained Energy Advocate within Sirona, to work alongside their frontline staff to help take their clients out of fuel poverty. The Energy Advocate will conduct home visits and grant signposting and hold appointment based and drop-in surgeries across South Gloucestershire.

Phase 1
Round 6
Charity
Citizens Advice North Nottinghamshire
Location
United Kingdom
Grant award
£197,804
Project Name
Be Savvy - Be Energy Smart!

A two-year project to reach disadvantaged vulnerable consumers within Bassetlaw District, Nottinghamshire, to support them to ‘Be Savvy – Be Energy Smart!’ in meeting their energy needs and tackling fuel poverty.

The project will deliver different depths of interaction providing energy advice to both individual consumers and local front-line organisations and will target clients identified as disadvantaged from the local Cancer support centre (Aurora Wellbeing Centre), Foodbanks and Estate agents.

Phase 1
Round 6
Charity
Family Action
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£107,037
Project Name
Bradford Energy Advice

The project will see two new qualified energy advisors join the Family Action team to deliver high quality energy, fuel poverty and income maximisation advice for vulnerable energy consumers in Bradford. Advice will be delivered through in-depth face-to-face appointments at their advice centre and appropriate community venues, home visits to housebound people, telephone/email advice and via workshops in community organisations.

Key areas of advice will include energy saving behavioural advice, information on supplier obligations, understanding energy bills, switching suppliers and income

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The project will see two new qualified energy advisors join the Family Action team to deliver high quality energy, fuel poverty and income maximisation advice for vulnerable energy consumers in Bradford. Advice will be delivered through in-depth face-to-face appointments at their advice centre and appropriate community venues, home visits to housebound people, telephone/email advice and via workshops in community organisations.

Key areas of advice will include energy saving behavioural advice, information on supplier obligations, understanding energy bills, switching suppliers and income maximisation advice.  

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Phase 1
  • Round 6
Round 6
Charity
Middlesbrough Environment City Trust
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£108,601
Project Name
Cosy Homes South Tees

The project will create energy advice provision in Redcar & Cleveland, developing the proactive approach already used in Middlesbrough and providing consistency across the South Tees Affordable Warmth Partnership area.

Provision of an extensive one-to-one advice programme with a strong focus on families, developing a robust referral pathway to support vulnerable clients through energy advice, access to energy efficiency measures, income maximisation and wellbeing support.

Phase 1
Round 6
Charity
Shetland Islands Citizens Advice Bureau
Location
United Kingdom
  • Scotland
Grant award
£93,067
Project Name
Warmer Homes for the Shetland Islands

Warmer Homes for the Shetland Islands will provide tailored energy advice across the Shetland Islands, particularly targeting vulnerable people. The project will be delivered through outreach advice sessions and energy awareness events in rural and island communities. 

Support offered will include an understanding bills and tariffs, reducing energy consumption through behaviour change, liaison with energy providers, tackling fuel debt and referral for support with energy efficiency measures through the Home Energy Scotland (HES) referral portal.

Phase 1
Round 6
Charity
Bromley by Bow Centre
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£269,196
Project Name
Empower You Too

The Empower You Too project will be delivered in partnership by the Bromley by Bow Centre, Citizens Advice East End, Age UK East London and Poplar Harca, providing essential energy advice to 2,350 people in vulnerable communities in Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Newham.

Training for 80 community volunteers as Energy Champions across the four organisations will enable them to advise peers on a wide variety of energy issues through appropriate means of engagement and making onward referrals for more in-depth support and measures.

The project will also develop a toolkit and training resources for

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The Empower You Too project will be delivered in partnership by the Bromley by Bow Centre, Citizens Advice East End, Age UK East London and Poplar Harca, providing essential energy advice to 2,350 people in vulnerable communities in Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Newham.

Training for 80 community volunteers as Energy Champions across the four organisations will enable them to advise peers on a wide variety of energy issues through appropriate means of engagement and making onward referrals for more in-depth support and measures.

The project will also develop a toolkit and training resources for other community organisations wishing to take on independent delivery of the energy awareness qualification and energy champion led approach.

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Phase 1
Round 6
Charity
Groundwork London
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£49,768
Project Name
Fuel-poverty advice for Barnet/ Brent (FABB)

This project aims to support 700 vulnerable households across Brent and Barnet to improve energy efficiency, build resilience to fuel poverty, save money and better represent consumer interests in the energy market.

The project will target low-income residents, older people and residents living with physical health issues or mental illness by providing a combination of home energy visits, targeted energy café events and frontline staff training. Trialling a new approach to outreach by linking with existing community hubs in highly deprived Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs).

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This project aims to support 700 vulnerable households across Brent and Barnet to improve energy efficiency, build resilience to fuel poverty, save money and better represent consumer interests in the energy market.

The project will target low-income residents, older people and residents living with physical health issues or mental illness by providing a combination of home energy visits, targeted energy café events and frontline staff training. Trialling a new approach to outreach by linking with existing community hubs in highly deprived Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs).

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