St Anns Advice Group, Nottingham
Funding for this project was agreed by the Trustees in January 2012. The funding will be for one year.
The St Anns Advice Group is an established charity of 20 years standing. They deliver free, independent, quality advice on debt, benefit, housing, employment and generalist help with casework. They use a variety of delivery methods to ensure accessibility for those clients that are traditionally the most disadvantaged. Their key aim is to provide a holistic service to their clients and to achieve this they run several integrated projects which offer specialist services to accommodate the myriad of issues their clients often face.
Project Summary
This project will allow St Anns to expand their existing fuel debt service to include 150 – 200 home visits per year.
Their trained energy advisor will visit clients at home to offer:-
- Energy efficiency and behaviour change advice to help clients reduce future bills.
- Advice on making energy efficiency improvements to the home (insulation, draught proofing, boiler upgrades, etc)
- Help with understanding energy bills.
- Checking energy bills are correct.
- Help with reading gas and electricity meters.
- Support to clients in selecting the most appropriate supplier/ tariff for their needs.
- Loan of energy cost meters to help clients understand their household’s energy use.
- Applications to trust funds for energy efficient household equipment.
- Applications to Nottingham Warm-Zone for free or low cost insulation and draught-proofing and/or to Government Warm-Front scheme for boiler repairs and replacement
The Trustees aim to visit the project in early 2012
