Stratton Parish Council has been asked by Dorset Community Action to make parishioners aware of a scheme to help people, particularly the elderly, who are struggling to pay fuel bills or repair heating systems. It may also be that their homes are hard to heat. The Healthy Homes Project, is an initiative of the British Gas Energy Trust and further details of the scheme can be found below.
In our area, CAB and Dorchester Age UK are delivering advice and signposting to organisations that help insulate the home for example. They are also giving debt advice and Wyvern are able, in some cases, to offer low cost loans.
Also, Magna Housing and Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty are working together to provide some sustainable wood to some people identified as benefitting from wood burners as they cannot get gas supplied to them.
The Healthy Homes Project
Do you find it hard to pay your gas and electricity bills?
- Is your home hard to heat?
- Would you like to check you are getting all the benefits and financial help you are entitled to?
- Is keeping warm in winter made more difficult by poor health, having a disability, mental health issues, having young children under 5, or living ‘off gas’?
If you answered YES to one of these questions, we can help you though our
Healthy Homes Project with advice, benefit claims, switching suppliers, home improvements and loans and grants.
CONTACT: bget@dorsetcommunityaction.org.uk