Ancho hands out support packs to keep tenants warm this winter
The packs contain useful items designed to keep them warm and reduce their energy costs.
North Ayrshire based housing association, Ancho, is handing out home support packs to its tenants who are in or at risk of fuel poverty.
The housing association, who are part of the Cairn Housing Group, successfully bid for £35,000 in funding from the Scottish Government’s Scottish Housing Fuel Support Fund, which is administered by the SFHA.
This has allowed it to help tenants forced into, or at risk of, fuel poverty through the cost-of-living crisis. The packs contain useful items designed to keep them warm and reduce their energy costs. Each pack is tailored to the needs of the individual household and can contain products, such as winter duvets, thermal curtains, air fryers, slow cookers, draft excluders, fleecy blankets, low energy lightbulbs and hot water bottles.
If you or someone you know is an Ancho tenant and wishes to be considered for a home support pack, please contact Ancho by emailing mail@ancho.co.uk or calling 0800 990 3405.
The funding also allowed Ancho to hold two cost-of-living roadshows to help support the wider community. The next event will take place on 10 January, from 13:30 – 16:00 at the Volunteer Rooms in Irvine, and will feature organisations who can help with energy, accessing foodbanks, cooking on a budget, debt advice, mental health, affordable furniture, and employability. It is open to everyone in the North Ayrshire community.
Jacquie Gardner, Ancho’s Area Housing Manger, said: “We are delighted to receive this funding from the Social Housing Fuel Support Fund. It will go some way to ensuring our tenants stay warm over the winter and will allow them to use energy more efficiently. I’d also like to thank Rodgers and Johnston, Everwarm and Frews, who made donations towards our home support packs.”