Suffolk Coastal is working with partners across Suffolk to tackle
winter fuel poverty with a £260,000 grant from the Government's
Warm Homes, Healthy People fund.
The cash will be used to fund a number of initiatives in
Suffolk, which are subject to eligibility.
Anyone who has a vulnerable relative or neighbour is urged to
help them find out more about what support and assistance might be
available to them.
A special telephone line, 08456 037 686, has
been set up to deal with enquiries and can offer, subject to
availability:
- Free information, advice and support to anyone struggling to
keep warm this winter.
- Installation of free community alarms fitted with extreme
temperature sensors in vulnerable people's homes, along with a
befriending service.
- Free temporary heater loan scheme.
- Free emergency boiler repairs for vulnerable households through
the Age UK 'Surviving Winter' Appeal and funding through the Warm
Homes project. Groups to benefit will include the over 60's,
families on a low income, families with children and young people
with learning disabilities.
- Free insulation and small energy efficiency improvement jobs,
including draught proofing.
- Free independent energy surveys in the home to help households
struggling to pay their energy bills by offering advice and
providing help to install measures to save money and energy.
- Road show run by Suffolk Acre to promote their good neighbour
and
community oil buying schemes (new window PDF
550KB).