Rushmoor Healthy Living

Funding for this project was agreed by the Trustees in October 2011. The funding will be for one year.

The Rushmoor Healthy Living project has been successfully running since 2008.

Main project objectives:

Educate, encourage and support individuals to reduce the amount they pay for their energy, reduce their energy consumption and make their property more energy efficient so as to reduce future fuel debt and reduce the likelihood of individuals experiencing future Fuel Poverty
To pilot new project ideas to increase number of beneficiaries & better empower more people to help themselves as detailed further above
To work with vulnerable and disadvantaged people, including those from the local Nepalese population
To ensure individuals are helped with the other problems they face in order to reduce likelihood of future recurrence of Fuel Poverty (either via Fuel Poverty project, other RHL projects or signposting to and support to access other organisations)

Main project outcomes:

Beneficiaries will be less likely to experience future Fuel Poverty:
- Beneficiaries will be more aware of how they can reduce their personal energy consumption
- Beneficiaries will have homes with improved energy efficiency
- Beneficiaries will reduce their existing and future levels of fuel debt
- Beneficiaries will be on more suitable tariffs for their circumstances
Beneficiaries will gain access to benefits/ grants to which they are entitled
Beneficiaries will have better physical and mental health as a result of reduced levels of fuel poverty
New ideas will be tested which, if successful, will increase the number of beneficiaries and prevent even more people falling into fuel poverty

Derek Kirkup

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