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At the beginning of 2019, we joined forces with Nicholas Doyle and Will Routh and formed a sister business called Chirpy Heat, offering strategic advice and support to social housing providers with...
One of the advantages of reflecting back over time – as we’re doing in this series of blogs to celebrate our tenth birthday – is that you can see which things were short-term fads and which were long-term structural challenges.
Turning 10 has been a great opportunity for us to stand back and appreciate just how much we’ve done and how broad our reach has been. Following on from Liz’s first (brilliant) birthday blog on Telling the Story of Retrofit, it’s my turn now to turn the spotlight on how we’ve helped to shape national, regional and local policy over the last ten years.
Last week, I had the privilege of speaking with some of those responsible for local delivery of fuel poverty schemes, people who are really transforming the everyday lives of many of the most vulnerable people in our society.
You don’t need to work in the energy sector to know that more and more people are experiencing fuel poverty, forced to choose between spending a large percentage of their income on heating or living in a cold home.
I was at the Kensington and Chelsea Poverty Watch meeting today, to see a presentation from the Public Health Nutrition Team about food poverty. My interest was the overlap between food poverty and fuel poverty – eating and heating – and to understand more about the everyday choices that low income and vulnerable householders have to make.
