Centric Lab

n 2024, community liaison officers joined a programme run by Centric Lab. After a learning course, a grant was allocated to Support Staffordshire to facilitate workshops with 2 demographic groups on their experiences of the health impacts of extreme weather and how existing built environment assets can adapt to improve wellbeing and quality of life.

Kirklees Warm Homes

Kirklees Warm Zones (2007–2010) was a pioneering area-based fuel poverty and energy efficiency initiative in West Yorkshire, unique for its cross-tenure model offering free loft and cavity wall insulation to all households in the borough, regardless of tenure, without means-testing.

Lloyds and the Good Economy Partnership

Bromford Flagship, a housing association, and Senze, a technology provider, with support from Lloyds, pilot tested the use of monitoring technology in a sample of 121 homes to measure actual thermal performance and compare this with modelled EPC data.

The UK CoBenefits Atlas

The UK Co-Benefits Atlas, part of the CO-BENS (Climate Outcomes and Benefits for the Economy, Nature and Society) project, aims to quantify and visualise the wider social, economic, and environmental benefits of climate actions.

Private Rental Sector Report 

A report, calling for bold action to bring the PRS into alignment with the UK’s decarbonisation goals, focusing on policy reform and investment in energy efficiency focused retrofits.