£30k for energy help
MORE than 650 homes in South Kirkby will be eligible for help with home insulation after Wakefield Council secured £30,000 of funding.
The money will fund an energy awareness campaign in the Holmsley area of the town, which will include home insulation and energy advice surveys to 679 homes.
Wakefield Council, which is running the project with Groundwork Wakefield, secured the funding from the Department for Energy and Climate Change’s Local Energy Assessment Fund (LEAF).
Dominion Training and South Kirkby Community Association are also involved in the scheme, which has already started and will run until the end of March.
Coun Denise Jeffery, cabinet member for regeneration and economic growth, said: “This funding is a great success in helping Holmsley residents to be more energy efficient and save money on their bills.
“In addition to providing home insulation and energy advice surveys to local residents, households will also receive energy saving reports advising them how to be more energy efficient and save money on their fuel bills.”
Energy advice surveys will be provided by 25 community volunteers, trained to City and Guilds level in energy awareness/fuel poverty.
For more information contact Wakefield Council’s Home Energy Team on 08449 020222.
Or for more information about the team, and how you can reduce your energy costs, visit www.wakefield.gov.uk/energy
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Colmair
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 05:47 AM650 houses by £30,000 is £46 per house. The headline states the 650 houses will be eligible for help with home insulation because of the funding. Isn't this project running in parallel with the work already done by the Wakefield Home Energy Team? Isn't there already advice publicly available on the measures that can be taken to reduce energy costs, particularly insulation? This information can be easily picked up on the Wakefield website or at any local library, showing that, for instance, anybody over 70 or in receipt of income related benefits gets free insulation. So why spend £30,000 extra on this, and what's this with a City & Guilds in Energy AwarenessFuel Poverty?
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