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Keep warm and well this winter

Posted on January 30, 2012

If you know someone who is elderly, caring for young children or in poor health and who is worried about their home being cold or damp, let them know about Winter Wellbeing. The Winter Wellbeing campaign offers advice on how to reduce fuel poverty, raise awareness of the risks of low temperatures and high humidity in homes, and encourage take-up of grants available for insulation and heating. The project may also be able to help people in need by providing …

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Ladock film hopes to inspire other low carbon communities

Posted on December 23, 2011

The mid Cornwall parish of Ladock is hoping that a film about their experiences of becoming one of the UK’s first low carbon communities will inspire other local projects to embrace low carbon living. A short film by the Cornwall based documentary maker Ben Giles was made after the parish won the Cornwall Rural Community Council’s ‘Sustainable Village of the Year’ award last year.  Following the film’s premiere at Ladock Community Hall, the film is now available to a worldwide …

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Cornwall Council wins partnership funding for Winter Wellness campaign to help reduce winter deaths

Posted on December 22, 2011

Press release issued by Cornwall Council A Cornwall Council and Council of the Isles of Scilly led bid has won over £140,000 from the Department of Health’s Warm Homes Healthy People fund for a campaign called Winter Wellness aimed at reducing preventable winter deaths. Each year, more than 300 people in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly are believed to die needlessly as a result of cold homes and freezing winter weather. Partners including NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, …

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Local energy experts gain Quality Auditor qualifications

Posted on December 20, 2011

Community Energy Plus has celebrated passing an important milestone in their journey towards achieving ISO9001 Quality Management System accreditation with 11 staff gaining IRCA[1] certified internal quality auditor qualifications. The Camborne based charity which helps Cornish householders to enjoy warmer, more energy efficient homes, is following the ISO (International Organisation for Standardisation) 9001 standard to embed quality control processes across all areas of its activities.   The Charity’s trading arm, Low Carbon Futures, has now added quality management system mentoring to …

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Partnership strives reduce excess winter deaths in Cornwall

Posted on December 12, 2011

300 people in Cornwall die every year because of the cold weather.  Latest figures from the Office of National Statistics indicate that Cornwall is starting to make progress in reducing this tragic number and a partnership between the NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, Cornwall Council and Community Energy Plus is working to stop people in Cornwall dying needlessly in the winter. The Warm Front Scheme offers grants for heating but sometimes these do not cover the full cost of …

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Community Oil Buying Club completes first order

Posted on November 16, 2011

A month after launching its new oil buying club to enable heating oil users in Cornwall to access more competitively priced heating oil, Community Energy Plus has completed its first order, saving its oil buying club members almost £4,500 collectively. The club already has over 500 members, representing approximately two per cent of oil buying households in Cornwall, and the Cornish fuel poverty and sustainable energy charity is confident that membership will quickly grow as more local residents look for …

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Big Lottery Funding strengthens Fuel Poverty services in Cornwall

Posted on October 12, 2011

A four year project to improve the quality of life for vulnerable people living in fuel poverty has been launched by Cornwall’s sustainable energy and fuel poverty charity following a grant of £430,000 by the Big Lottery Fund. Community Energy Plus’s ‘Warm Me Up!’ Project will deliver impartial advice and support to up to 1200 targeted households to help them to reduce and manage their energy bills.  Fuel Poverty, which is defined as a household spending more than 10% of …

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Insulation scheme gears up for temperature drop

Posted on October 7, 2011

Following the warm start to autumn, a local sustainable energy charity is expecting to see a sudden rush of applications to its insulation scheme as the expected seasonal temperature drop shocks residents into action to get their homes ready for the cold weather. Community Energy Plus delivers a county wide insulation scheme in partnership with Cornwall Council and has launched their campaign to encourage almost 3000 homes to take up their offer. Around a third of all the heat that …

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Community Oil Buying Club goes live!

Posted on September 29, 2011

In response to historic increases in the price of heating oil in the past year, Cornwall’s fuel poverty charity has launched an online energy club to help members reduce their heating bills. Communityenergyclub.org.uk is the brainchild of the Camborne based charity Community Energy Plus and has been created to bring together the collective buying power of heating oil users in Cornwall and enable members to access more competitively priced heating oil. The price of heating oil in the South West …

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Solar Communities 2011 scheme expansion

Posted on September 27, 2011

Two months after launching a £20 million investment package for community buildings in Cornwall, the Cornish sustainable energy charity Community Energy Plus has extended their offer for free PV for community buildings in Cornwall to include businesses and non-commercial organisations in Cornwall and Devon. Community Energy Plus has brought together five local installers to create a multi-million pound fund to invest in roof-mounted solar PV installations before the end of March 2012. Buildings taking up the offer will be able …

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