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The £5k Green Homes Grant: what you need to know

23rd August 2020

Update: on 21st September we ran a free webinar ‘An introduction to the Green Homes Grant and effective home upgrades’, which you can watch either here or on youtube. This post was updated on 12th October to reflect new findings about the scheme. You may have heard about the government scheme called the Green Homes

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Energy Café 3: bold beginnings, scaling up and fighting fuel poverty

12th April 2019

On 11th April 2019, YCE held Energy Café 3 at Quaker Meeting House, which featured a progress update on our Warmer York project and two talks from guest speakers about insulating houses on a national scale and fighting fuel poverty. First up was Russell Smith from RetrofitWorks, who told us about his mission to make

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