Knowledge & Resources

Relatively cheap prizes help encourage people to attend community engagement events such as bingo - but make sure they're energy efficient!

Community Energy Champions work closely with the local community. They are usually community volunteers and/or members of a Residence Association that meet at regular intervals in the evening. In order to gain maximum benefit, Energy Awareness sessions must be arranged to suite the target audience at a time and place convenient to community members.

Training - Training internal staff from your organisation to raise awareness of the issue of affordable warmth is just as relevant as getting the message out to external stakeholders.  This doesn't have to be formal training – you can use short briefing sessions/newsletters/social media etc.

Community events - Keep it fun and interactive.

Always ensure you consider the priorities of the person you are speaking to – with cut backs, and stretched resources tackling fuel poverty will often not be a priority. You need to make it simple to identify how action on affordable warmth could help support their wider strategic or operational aims/objectives.