Warm & Safe Wiltshire – Parish newsletters
Warming up Wiltshire!
Do you struggle to keep your home warm or worry how you will afford your energy bills this winter?
Contact Warm & Safe Wiltshire for free, impartial advice about keeping your home warm, using your heating system, understanding your energy bills and making energy saving improvements. Advice can be given through home visits as well as over the phone. Home fire safety checks can also be organised in partnership with Fire and Rescue for eligible residents. Homeowners or privately-renting tenants in Wiltshire with a suitable property can now have cavity wall insulation installed in your home, free of charge – helping to make your home warmer and cheaper to heat1.
If you, or someone you know, would benefit from speaking to a trained energy advisor, then get in touch.
Call 0300 003 475| email warmandsafe@wiltshire.gov.uk
1All offers are subject to survey, funding availability and property suitability.
Cold Living
Living in a cold home can be bad for your health. Consistently low temperatures in your home may exacerbate existing health issues (particularly respiratory and cardiovascular conditions) and make it harder for you to recover from illnesses. It can cause you and your family to feel miserable at home, effecting concentration, dexterity and mental health.
Residents can now contact Warm & Safe Wiltshire – the commitment from Wiltshire Council and Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Service and their partners to help residents live in safer and healthier homes – and a one stop shop for all cold home and energy queries. The service provides free, impartial advice about keeping your home warm, understanding your heating system and energy bills, switching energy supplier, making energy saving improvements and a comprehensive home fire safety check where eligible. Energy advice can be given through home visits as well as over the phone.
Warm & Safe Wiltshire can help to improve energy efficiency in the home which can reduce fuel bills. The service can also advise on possible benefit entitlement and available grants such as the Warm Home Discount. Insulation is one of the best ways of lowering your energy bills and a new grant offer means that if you are a homeowner or privately-renting tenant in Wiltshire with a suitable property you can have cavity wall insulation installed in your home, free of charge – helping to make your home warmer and cheaper to heat. In some circumstances you may also be able to access grant funding to help with the cost of insulating your loft. All offers are subject to survey, funding availability and property suitability.
Please contact the team if you would like any advice or you know anyone who would benefit from a referral.
Call 0300 003 475| email warmandsafe@wiltshire.gov.uk
Volunteers Wanted
We are currently recruiting volunteers to help us deliver the project and I have attached a couple of posters that explain a bit more about the type of opportunities that are available.
if you would like any further information on the project please call 0300 003 4575.
