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Visit York Open Eco Homes 2023

15th September 2023

We’ve joined forces with St Nicks again to deliver the 9th edition of this annual showcase event of energy saving home upgrades. This year’s York Open Eco Homes is taking place on Sunday 1st October 10am – 4pm and we have 8 hosts ready to welcome visitors. Use the opportunity to visit local homes and

Tags: energy saving, events, insulation, open home, retrofit, tour, york

Eco-Homes Café 4: DIY Retrofit, May 4th

6th April 2023

The fourth in our popular series of Eco-Homes Café events will take place on Thursday May 4th from 7pm at the Friargate Meeting House (YO1 9RL) and will be all about DIY retrofit projects. If you’re thinking of upgrading your home for better energy efficiency and comfort, at least partly as a DIY project then

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The £5k Boiler Upgrade Scheme: the policy we’ve been waiting for, or another green flop?

20th October 2021

The UK government have finally published their long-awaited Heat and Buildings Strategy, including the Boiler Upgrade Scheme starting in April 2022, which is a £5k grant for customers switching to an air source heat pump, or £6k for those switching to a ground source heat pump. So is this the policy that is finally going to kick-start the clean heat revolution, or will it go the way of the failed Green Homes Grant?

Tags: boiler upgrade scheme, financing, government grants, heat pump, insulation, retrofit, warmer homes york

A York Environment Week Frenzy

10th September 2021

If it isn’t already in your diaries, mark it now: York Environment Week 2021 is 18th-26th September. There is a veritable blizzard of events taking place and we aren’t stinting with our contribution! On Saturday September 25th at 1:30pm we have an event about rooftop solar for schools in York – the project we’re running

Tags: events, insulation, local, open eco-homes, solar, solar for schools, warmer homes york, york, york environment week

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

Tags: draught-proofing, financing, fuel poverty, government, grants, green homes grant, insulation, policy, retrofit, warmer homes york

New Community Energy Fortnight event: Building Better for the Future

18th June 2020

It’s Community Energy Fortnight 2020, which means community energy groups across the country are holding events to spread awareness and share learnings with other groups. This year is a bit unusual, however, thanks to the lockdown: instead of physical events, everything is online, which means that it’s never been easier to get involved! We at

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Warmer Homes York – what’s been going on?

17th June 2020

The cold winter months are fast becoming a distant memory with the lovely weather we’ve had recently. As the weather gets warmer, let’s briefly look back at the various activities that we undertook as part of our Warmer Homes York programme. Warmer Homes York area on website In case you haven’t spotted it yet, we

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2019 AGM report: Healing our homes in an age of heating

15th December 2019

Facing up to the challenge of making 25 million UK homes ready for the low carbon world we need is a huge challenge. With government and the housebuilding industry having pretty much deserted the fight, community energy organisations are stepping up to try to find a way forward. For our AGM this year we heard

Tags: AGM, climate emergency, energy saving, housing, insulation, retrofit

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

Tags: climate change, climate emergency, energy cafe, energy saving, events, fuel poverty, insulation, reduce emissions, york

Climate emergency, great YorSpace news and springing into action

26th March 2019

We’re very pleased to hear that the City of York Council has declared a climate emergency and hope to see more support for local action to reduce carbon emissions. Are YOU ready to spring into climate action with us? Whether you roll up your sleeves at our “Housewarming Party” or look for inspiration at the

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