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The end of our grant-funded pilot phase – what’s the next step for Cosy Homes?
Our whole house retrofit service has been operational for two years now. These two years (2019-21) have been our ‘pilot phase’, during which we’ve received grant-funding from the UK Department of Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy
How I eco-retrofitted my rural family house with Jayne Dowle
This week the Times covered the story of an eco retrofit of a rural home in St Catherine’s Valley near Bath – including insulation and external
MPs call for new and improved Green Homes Grant scheme
A cross-party group of MPs making up the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has called for the Green Homes Grant to be replaced with a new and improved multi-year energy efficiency scheme in the upcoming Spending Review, in a letter to the Business
The Green Homes Grant had highest amount of applications in the month it was scrapped
The April release of data from the Government on the Green Homes Grant shows that applications were increasing in the months before the scheme was scrapped, with a record number of applications made in March 2021. This comes after the Government blamed the
Our key learnings from developing a home retrofit service
Our whole house retrofit service has been operational for two years now. These two years (2019-21) have been our ‘pilot phase’, during which we’ve received grant-funding from the UK Department of Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy
New tool from Green New Deal: how many green jobs in your area
How many green jobs could be created in your constituency? This new tool from the Green New Deal team can tell you, and help you lobby your local MP to put them in place. Green New Deal are highlighting the jobs lost during the Covid-19 pandemic, and calling
The UK will announce plans to commit by law to reduce emissions by 78% by 2035
The UK government is to set in law the world’s most ambitious climate change target, cutting emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels. This is in line with the most recent recommendation from the Climate Change Committee, and will be part of the
Lessons to apply to retrofit from the early 20thC toilet revolution
This week in Building News Sam Stacey, Challenge Director at Transforming Construction, UKRI, argued that we can take learnings from the way that Thomas Crapper’s valve-and-siphon design was implemented in British homes across the country in the early 20th
Five housing associations have signed a partnership to improve the energy efficiency of their homes
Five major housing associations in the UK have signed a partnership to improve the energy efficiency of homes in their regions, totalling over 300,000 homes. The Greener Futures Partnership (GFP) is made up of Abri, Anchor Hanover, Home Group, Hyde and
Two years into Cosy Homes Oxfordshire: our impact so far
The pilot phase of Cosy Homes Oxfordshire (2019-21) is just the beginning of our journey to create a robust business model for delivering home retrofit that works for both homeowners and contractors - but we’re proud of how far we’ve come and what we’ve
We need to get the next generation excited about green jobs
Hundreds of thousands of new job roles are needed if we are to achieve a clean energy transition and meet net zero targets in the UK. Dina Potter of the National Grid believes that investing in young people is key to this, and that we now need to ensure that
Charity Ashden is calling for a ‘revolution in green skills training’
Ashden is calling for a revolution in green skills training, following the scrapping of the Green Homes Grant scheme in March 2021. If we are to retrofit millions of homes and stick to our carbon targets, the UK must drastically scale