If you, or someone you know, need this service telephone 0300 500 80 80 and discuss your needs. www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/caring/keep-warm/
Transition Wirksworth have teamed up with St James Arts Centre and New Mills School to create a pollinator garden at St James’. The garden’s aim is to make the area beautiful and provide food for bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects. New Mills School produced a design and a planting day in May involve students, staff and volunteers. Future plans may include planting a dwarf apple tree, spring bulbs, climbing plants and lavender. If anyone would like to help maintain the garden please get in touch with the group: www.transitionnewmills.org.
Our Fantastic Home mobile exhibition spent Nottinghamshire's half term visiting a number of local high streets. We spoke to shoppers in Eastwood, Calverton and Mapperley. But we're just as at home in mud as we are on tarmac. Earlier this month we attended Transition Hope Valley's very busy Apple Day in a very muddy field in Derbyshire!
We've offered visitors to the exhibition advice on everything from solid wall insulation and changing a boiler to solar panels and making sure your shower is energy efficient. We've also given away free items which will save people money on their electricity, gas and water bills.
Energyfunder is a new project launched in partnership with Crowdfunder UK to provide a platform for people with great energy ideas to find the funding that they need to get their projects off the ground. It’s a unique idea that uses the new trend of crowdfunding (reaching out to your community to fund an idea) to fund communities who want to make their own energy. Whether you have an idea for a new product to bring to market or you want to insulate your scout hut or replace the boiler in the village hall, energyfunder can help you raise the money from the community around you.
www.energyshare.com/labs/energyfunder/
Free benefit entitlement checks and home energy efficiency support for local people
AgeUK are using funding from E.ON to offer 150 free energy efficiency checks and 125 benefits advice sessions to older people living in Nottingham City, Gedling, Broxtowe and Rushcliffe. These checks will help to maximise income, reduce energy consumption and lower spending on energy bills during the most difficult months for vulnerable older people.
Thanks to the grant, people living in Gedling, Broxtowe, Rushcliffe, and Nottingham City can benefit from a free energy efficiency check through Age UK Notts' handyperson service. The handyperson will carry out an 'energy fit' check to assess the energy efficiency of a person's home and give top tips on how to save energy. Where possible they will also install simple and practical energy efficiency measures such as draught proofing in a bid to reduce energy bills.
In addition to the 'energy fit' checks older people will also be able to take advantage of free benefit advice sessions with qualified advisors who will assess eligibility of benefits and provide support to claim what they are entitled to. The advice is free, impartial and confidential and allows Age UK Notts to refer people to additional services and support if needed.
To find out more about the free energy efficiency checks call 0115 952 3509 or call 0115 844 0011 for benefits advice sessions.