Fyne Homes Energy Action for Tenants
Grant of £67,917 will help tenants to reduce their energy use.
Fyne Homes is delighted to announce that its FyneHEAT Project has been successful in its bid to the Scottish Government’s Climate Challenge Fund to continue to provide advice and assistance to tenants to help them reduce their energy use andbills, switch suppliers and reduce their carbon emissions.
Gigha Primary School will partner FyneHEAT in an exciting addition to the project – the school would like to recycle its food, paper and cardboard waste by turning it into compost. The school has also adopted an area of shoreline to keep tidy and free of rubbish. After doing regular beach cleaning, it highlighted the need to reduce/reuse the amount of plastics washed up on the beach, but, with no recycling facilities on the island, the school children want to find a solution for this global problem.
Using the FyneHEAT app which has been developed byKiswebs, the project hopes to increase its use of social media, with information and advice on Twitter and Facebook and through the FyneHEAT App to engage with their tenants.
The grant of £67,917 will help tenants to reduce their energy use, by offering energy efficiency advice and assistance through home visits, holding regular energy saving advice surgeries and providing employment for three energy advisers.
FyneHEAT Project Manager Karen Hilton said:
“This is fantastic news, and I am delighted we can continue to help our tenants. Some household budgets are under constant strain and, by increasing awareness on what actions can be taken to reduce energy bills, tenants will be less likely to experience fuel poverty.
“We want to provide our tenants with homes they can afford to heat and assist them to change or adapt their behaviour to achieve this.
“I am also really excited about the project onGigha; the children have come up with some great ideas on how they can reduce food waste and how to recycle beach plastics, a problem that is constantly hitting the headlines around the world, so I can’t wait to see what their solutions are for this global problem.”