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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 £206 million to fund nearly 761 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 2
  • Round 8
Round 8
Charity
Element Society
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£24,688
Project Name
VoltEdge - Energy Saving & Advice Programme

The project aims to offer support with managing household expenses and adopting sustainable energy practices to empower young unemployed people between the age of 18 and 24, including care leavers, who are new to independent living. They will provide comprehensive education and practical training on essential life skills such as operating and regulating water and heating systems, utilising timer functions, and implementing basic yet effective energy-saving measures. To engage a wider audience of young people effectively, they will create regular and engaging social media content, including

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The project aims to offer support with managing household expenses and adopting sustainable energy practices to empower young unemployed people between the age of 18 and 24, including care leavers, who are new to independent living. They will provide comprehensive education and practical training on essential life skills such as operating and regulating water and heating systems, utilising timer functions, and implementing basic yet effective energy-saving measures. To engage a wider audience of young people effectively, they will create regular and engaging social media content, including TikTok and Instagram tutorials, to make energy-saving concepts accessible, entertaining and informative.

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Phase 2
  • Round 8
Round 8
Charity
Limehouse Project
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£112,775
Project Name
Energy Advice And Support

This project will build on a previous Energy Redress funded project, delivering face-to-face energy assessments and in-depth energy advice workshops for particularly vulnerable and hard-to-reach households. The project will fund two part-time energy advisers, who will deliver both virtual and in-person advice workshops, provide 1-2-1 meetings and support, including some individual casework, as well as offering energy training workshops for other local agencies working with local households struggling with fuel poverty issues.

Phase 2
  • Round 8
Round 8
Charity
Torus Foundation
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£285,100
Project Name
Torus Foundation Supportive Energy

The project will provide energy advice, advocacy, and practical solutions to vulnerable social housing residents in the Northwest, affected by high living and energy costs. Experienced, qualified advisors will provide tailored energy advice and signpost to wrap-around support to meet complex needs of tenants. The Energy Advisors will offer guidance on reducing energy consumption, identifying energy savings, and implementing low-cost energy-saving measures. Learning from previous successful projects funded by the Energy Redress Scheme, advisors will address both direct energy issues and

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The project will provide energy advice, advocacy, and practical solutions to vulnerable social housing residents in the Northwest, affected by high living and energy costs. Experienced, qualified advisors will provide tailored energy advice and signpost to wrap-around support to meet complex needs of tenants. The Energy Advisors will offer guidance on reducing energy consumption, identifying energy savings, and implementing low-cost energy-saving measures. Learning from previous successful projects funded by the Energy Redress Scheme, advisors will address both direct energy issues and underlying problems to create long-term solutions.

They will share their knowledge and best practices of delivering the project with up to 30 local charities, to enable them to build and grow their energy advice offer within local communities.

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Phase 1
  • Round 8
Round 8
Charity
Act on Energy
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£909,358
Project Name
Warmer Homes West Midlands

Warmer Homes West Midlands is an ambitious partnership programme to provide a universal, top-level energy advice service for the fuel poor across the seven urban local authority areas in the West Midlands Combined Authority area. This is a large-scale energy advice programme will help over 7,000 vulnerable households, create nine new jobs and help secure a further eight jobs. The project aims to reduce fuel poverty and improve the health and wellbeing of people with pre-existing cold and damp related medical conditions, through energy saving advice, energy saving measures an income

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Warmer Homes West Midlands is an ambitious partnership programme to provide a universal, top-level energy advice service for the fuel poor across the seven urban local authority areas in the West Midlands Combined Authority area. This is a large-scale energy advice programme will help over 7,000 vulnerable households, create nine new jobs and help secure a further eight jobs. The project aims to reduce fuel poverty and improve the health and wellbeing of people with pre-existing cold and damp related medical conditions, through energy saving advice, energy saving measures an income maximisation advice. Advice will be delivered by a team of qualified energy advisors by telephone, through case work, home visits and community events where it is safe to do so. A team of community outreach workers will ensure that as wide a range of people as possible will be able to take advantage of Warmer Homes West Midlands.

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Phase 2
  • Round 8
Round 8
Charity
Arun and Chichester Citizens Advice Bureau
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£443,747
Project Name
TFPT - Home Improvement Support

This project builds on the success of the Tackling Fuel Poverty Together initiative and aims to help residents in Sussex reduce their energy bills and improve energy-related behaviour. Support will be delivered to energy consumers in vulnerable situations through home visits. These visits will be used to fully evaluate the home’s current energy efficiency rating and give hands-on support with changing energy-related behaviour in the home. The project will support tenants with mould and damp issues until resolution, as well as maintain a register of trusted retrofit installers. 

Phase 2
  • Round 8
Round 8
Charity
Energise Sussex Coast
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£188,494
Project Name
Energising Communities

The project aims to implement a pioneering multi-site microgrid that explores the potential for three types of microgrid to support the transition to net zero. This includes microgrids for flats in Bexhill, for a neighborhood in Bexhill, and for a whole town in Battle. Their approach includes deploying cutting-edge technologies such as the Transmission Upgrade Avoidance (TUA) scheme to avoid grid connection delays and solshare to share solar power. Their solar farm’s innovative financial model and community-private ownership will show how solar farms can provide maximum benefit to local

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The project aims to implement a pioneering multi-site microgrid that explores the potential for three types of microgrid to support the transition to net zero. This includes microgrids for flats in Bexhill, for a neighborhood in Bexhill, and for a whole town in Battle. Their approach includes deploying cutting-edge technologies such as the Transmission Upgrade Avoidance (TUA) scheme to avoid grid connection delays and solshare to share solar power. Their solar farm’s innovative financial model and community-private ownership will show how solar farms can provide maximum benefit to local communities.

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Phase 2
  • Round 8
Round 8
Charity
Marches Energy Agency
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£495,073
Project Name
Telford Energy Advice Phase3 (TEA3)

This project will continue to build on the successful delivery of a previous Energy Redress funded project, providing free, impartial advice to energy-vulnerable householders within the Telford & Wrekin Council (T&WC) borough. The project will work in partnership with Telford Crisis Support (TCS) and Citizens Advice Bureau Telford (CABT). They aim to support over 4,500 vulnerable households directly and make clear, reliable information available to thousands more. Energy advice will be delivered through home visits, telephone support, 1-to-1 appointments, and at community hubs/events. The

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This project will continue to build on the successful delivery of a previous Energy Redress funded project, providing free, impartial advice to energy-vulnerable householders within the Telford & Wrekin Council (T&WC) borough. The project will work in partnership with Telford Crisis Support (TCS) and Citizens Advice Bureau Telford (CABT). They aim to support over 4,500 vulnerable households directly and make clear, reliable information available to thousands more. Energy advice will be delivered through home visits, telephone support, 1-to-1 appointments, and at community hubs/events. The project will also offer support to improve home energy efficiency, through the installation of low-cost energy efficiency measures, and signposting to grant funding.

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Phase 2
  • Round 9
Round 9
Charity
Groundwork Five Counties
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£299,972
Project Name
Groundwork Five Counties - Green Doctor service

The project aims to provide in depth energy saving advice to 1,775 vulnerable households to help them become more financially resilient.

The project will deliver face-to-face support to people most in need, in their communities and their homes. Support will include: comprehensive home surveys, identifying sources of heat loss, damp, leaks, and other issues impacting their home energy use, advice and practical support to switch suppliers/tariffs, alongside supplying and fitting suitable energy saving measures at no cost to them. 

They will also identify other needs that keep people in poverty and

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The project aims to provide in depth energy saving advice to 1,775 vulnerable households to help them become more financially resilient.

The project will deliver face-to-face support to people most in need, in their communities and their homes. Support will include: comprehensive home surveys, identifying sources of heat loss, damp, leaks, and other issues impacting their home energy use, advice and practical support to switch suppliers/tariffs, alongside supplying and fitting suitable energy saving measures at no cost to them. 

They will also identify other needs that keep people in poverty and refer households to provision to help with health and wellbeing, social isolation, employment, training, financial or other support to take steps to escape financial exclusion and fuel poverty.

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Phase 2
  • Round 9
Round 9
Charity
Age UK North Yorkshire Coast and Moors
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£292,808
Project Name
Energy Your Way

The project aims to deliver high quality energy advice to vulnerable older people living in Scarborough and Ryedale in, or at risk of, fuel poverty. They will work closely with local authorities, voluntary and health sectors, housing providers and statutory services to reach over 1,500 households.

The project will include a Warm Room provision; a space for people to stay warm during colder months thus reducing home energy costs, at three locations. Energy advice will be delivered through a combination of home-visits and at their office locations, advice will include: maximising income; dealing

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The project aims to deliver high quality energy advice to vulnerable older people living in Scarborough and Ryedale in, or at risk of, fuel poverty. They will work closely with local authorities, voluntary and health sectors, housing providers and statutory services to reach over 1,500 households.

The project will include a Warm Room provision; a space for people to stay warm during colder months thus reducing home energy costs, at three locations. Energy advice will be delivered through a combination of home-visits and at their office locations, advice will include: maximising income; dealing with fuel debt; getting better deals when market conditions allow; resolving disputes; referrals to energy efficiency programmes; priority services registration; support to reduce energy usage.

They will also create an Energy Hub to coordinate activity and knowledge share with other local organisations.

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Phase 2
  • Round 9
Round 9
Charity
Citizens Advice Mid Lincolnshire
Location
United Kingdom
  • England
Grant award
£91,823
Project Name
EnergyWell

The project aims to reduce vulnerable householders bills, whilst maximising their income, and providing them with the lifelong skills to manage their energy consumption, through information events and casework level advice.

Project activities will include information sharing events held in the community i.e market stalls, library events to discuss reducing energy costs within the home.  Casework support will focus on improving energy knowledge, whilst empowering participants to make changes within the home to reduce their energy consumption.  The result of which will save them money whilst

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The project aims to reduce vulnerable householders bills, whilst maximising their income, and providing them with the lifelong skills to manage their energy consumption, through information events and casework level advice.

Project activities will include information sharing events held in the community i.e market stalls, library events to discuss reducing energy costs within the home.  Casework support will focus on improving energy knowledge, whilst empowering participants to make changes within the home to reduce their energy consumption.  The result of which will save them money whilst reducing their carbon footprint. 

Vulnerable households will be provided with winter warmth packs which will include practical items such as information about money management and crisis prevention, energy saving light bulbs, thermometers and other useful items to keep warm.

Energy appointments will be tailored to the individuals needs and explore; tariffs, bills and fuel options, switching energy suppliers, energy efficiency measures, and identifying available grants.

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