Retrofit and Renewables Community Delivery Programme

The ‘Home Retrofit Advice Service’ and ‘Solar Made Easy’ projects will be scaled up to build householder confidence and improve accessibility of energy efficiency and renewable energy measures for householders. Taking a community-by-community approach, working in partnership with local community groups, parish councils and the Farmer Network; they will increase engagement and confidence in the local supply chain; increase supplier confidence in the market and unlock £1million of spend on retrofit in Cumbria (£10k per household). As part of the project, they will support 700 homeowners with advice via events, webinars and other training and upskill contractors to provide quality ’deep retrofit’ in a wide variety of building types.