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Coventry – Tuesday, 3 September 2013
CAN Awards 2013
East Midlands CAN Award Winner:
Rosemary Leach (Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council)
and Isabel Clark (Rutland County Council)
Collecting Award: Isabel Clark
Isabel and Rosemary coordinated and almost wrote the entire bid on
behalf of Rutland and Leicester District Councils for the hugely successful
DECC project. Though there were many people, including officers,
managers, warm homes officers etc who hugely contributed, these two
went above and beyond to ensure the project was successful. Through
the project, over three million pounds have been spent locally both
through capital and revenue funding. A great number of green deal
assessments have been carried out and hundreds brought out of fuel
poverty. Approximately 50 solar installations occurred in each of the
authorities, people have been given jam-jar accounts to pay bills by
direct debit, and they are given budgeting advice via the Citizens Advice
Bureau. Fuel vouchers have been distributed and hundreds of Sedbuk Arated boilers have been installed in fuel poor households.
Other Nominees:
Gedling Council
East Pennine CAN Award Winner:
Wakefield Council Home Energy Team
Collecting award: Paul Maplethorpe
Wakefield Council Home Energy Team partnered
up with Wakefield council School Travel Plan Team
and the Wakefield Joint Public Health team to
promote reducing CO2 across Wakefield district.
The area being concentrated on was Pontefract as
it is proven to have high emissions as it is in the
region of the joint M1 and M62 motorway
interchange. The ‘Cutting Carbon’ project was
piloted in three primary schools to promote
walking / health and energy reduction to pupils
parents and staff.
HECA East Award Winner:
Suffolk Warm Homes Healthy People Project
Collecting award: Martin Seymour/Christine Barrett
The partnership of Suffolk County and District authorities were
successful, for a second year running, in securing funding from the
Department for Health’s Warm Homes Healthy People project. This
year, in addition to £315,000 of DoH funding, the project received
£165,000 of DECC Fuel Poverty Fund funding to support capital
measures including insulation and the replacement of heating
systems. The majority of the fuel poverty and energy efficiency
related elements of the project was managed and supported by
District and Borough Council officers, in addition to their “day job”.
Other Nominees:
The Energy Team, Broadland District Council
London HECA Forum Award Winner:
Community Energy Savings Program (CESP) in Lambeth
Collecting award: John Kolm-Murray
In January 2012 a large-scale retrofit project got on the way on Lambeth’s
Loughborough Estate to bring the 850-odd flats up to decent homes standard. In a
very tight and intense partnership between E.ON, Lambeth Council, the ALMO United
Residents Housing (URH) and the main contractor United House, a £1.7m programme
of CESP-eligible works was devised to dove-tail into the £7.5m decent homes
programme. The program itself was not only finished on time and on budget, but also
additional qualifying works were identified whilst works were in progress. This meant
that in addition to the £1.7m CESP funding originally agreed, another £800k, mainly
consisting of external wall insulation, was added to the programme, leading to a total
of £2.5m of CESP funding.
Other Nominees:
Camden Well and Warm Project, East London Renewal Partnership
Circle Housing Energy Doctor Project, London Borough of Islington, affordable
warmth advice services’ SHINE project
North East CAN Award Winner:
Elizabeth Kemp (Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council)
Elizabeth joined Redcar & Cleveland’s Energy Team two years ago as an
apprentice. She has shown great enthusiasm and has developed her skills in
the field of energy and the environment. Elizabeth manages the day-to-day
communications for the North East Carbon Action Network and organises
local events, also assisting with their Affordable Warmth programme,
attending community events to give energy efficiency advice and providing
assistance and advice to households. Most notably, Elizabeth runs the local
Low Carbon Schools project, advising schools on how to reduce their
energy consumption and carbon emissions, working with the children
about energy conservation in school and at home. This has been a very
successful scheme, with schools successfully reducing their energy
consumption. She also manages the Carbon Champions network and is
continually looking for new ways to engage the Council’s workforce to
reduce carbon emissions.
North West Award Winner:
Stockport Homes Energy Team
Collecting award: Louise Whan
Stockport Homes Energy Team manage housing stock owned by Stockport
Borough Council. Since 2011, SHL have carried out an installation
programme of solar photovoltaic panels on their existing stock, this
involved installing PV on over 1,930 properties. This programme also
brought the installation of 28 large scale projects on council buildings and
schools. Solar thermal technologies have been installed onto new build
properties and, in late 2011, the first large-scale biomass boiler was
installed in Lancashire Hill. The installation of solar panels has led to
reduced energy bills, coupled with the cultural change programme which
advises residents on energy usage, which has made further financial
savings for residents.
South East CAN Award Winner:
Insulate Hampshire
Collecting award: Beth Richards
Insulate Hampshire was an area-based insulation scheme developed in
partnership with all District and Borough Councils and the County Council in
Hampshire, to deliver cavity wall and loft insulation to all Hampshire residents.
The project was initially developed in response to fuel poverty concerns, but also
aimed to achieve: energy bill savings for Hampshire residents; reduced CO2
emissions; creation of local jobs and an improvement in health and wellbeing.
Insulate Hampshire was one of the most successful area-based insulation
programmes in the country and successfully delivered over 18,600 insulation
measures into Hampshire homes. IH has undertaken further work around
delivering additional measures to vulnerable and fuel poor households, after
securing funding under the Fuel Poverty Fund in late 2012. The programme
consisted of the installation of a full gas central heating system to qualifying
residents; this programme is currently on-going.
Other Nominees:
Buckinghamshire Affordable Warmth project,
Alan Asbury
South West
Charles Garrett (Bath and North East Somerset Council)
Charles Garrett began work with HECA in 2001 and has been
involved in almost 30 initiatives to increase energy efficiency. In
2012/13 he has co-ordinated initiatives including: Warmer
Widcombe for Older People, Freedom from Fuel Poverty, Winter
Warmth Club and Open House, B&NES Energy@home and Warm
Streets CERT. These efforts have been recognised by South West
CAN membership this year when they appointed Charles the ViceChair of the branch.
West Midlands
Warmer Worcestershire Network
Collecting award: Heather Lammas
The Warmer Worcestershire project is a partnership of six district councils,
county council, NHS, statutory agencies and the voluntary sector, all working
together to address issues associated with fuel poverty. The project started in
2009 with a thermal flyover looking at heat loss and promoting insulation
measures. More recently, following funding through WHHPF, Warmer
Worcestershire has had a greater health focus. Once engaged, people are
referred to the appropriate scheme, whether that be benefit support or a referral
for ECO. Age UK supported 456 households and over 180 front-line staff have
been trained to recognise the links between cold homes and health. Moving
forward, the county and the six districts are working to deliver HECA plans
through the Warmer Worcestershire partners and are now working to develop a
long term strategic partnership with Carillion Energy Services to deliver ECO and
Green Deal to all residents to enable the delivery of both fuel poverty and CO2
targets.
Other Nominees: Rachel Jones
Lifetime Achievement Award
Hazel Hill (Bracknell Forest Council)
Hazel Began her role as a Sustainable Energy Officer in 1999. She
has been involved with HECA/CAN since then, being awarded
HECA officer of the year three times. Her work involves home
visits to residents providing energy information, also including
information about renewable energy for domestic use. Her work
over the years includes multiple energy efficiency schemes, and
she has obtained grants to help target the most vulnerable and
the fuel poor. She was also awarded a Green Apple Award in
recognition of her work in the environment.
Other Nominees:
Colin Anderson
Cliff Duff