Home Action Plan

The Home Action Plan is a new, personalised in home audit service from the Energy Saving Trust, designed to help homeowners take action to save energy through tailor-made advice and ongoing support.

The service costs £99* and consists of the following benefits

• An in-depth environmental audit of your home and household
• A face to face consultation with a professional and accredited Home Advisor
• A detailed report and action plan containing tailor-made, practical recommendations on how to
  • Reduce your energy consumption
  • Conserve water
  • Reduce waste and recycle more efficiently
  • Cut down your emissions from transport
• A review of your home's potential for installation of renewable energy technologies
• Ongoing impartial advice and support to help you implement the actions
• An official Energy Performance Certificate - worth around £100

To develop the Home Action Plan service the Energy Saving Trust worked closely with families in two villages, Hook Norton in Oxfordshire and Stewkley in Buckinghamshire. Both of these villages have active community environmental groups and around 10 families from each group took part.

"Low Carbon Hook Norton is an action based group whose aim is to reduce energy. The Home Action Plan helped us reach that aim by providing a common way for ten different households to be assessed, to create individual household reports, which led to common overall actions for the community and a vehicle to communicate them."
Tim Lunel, Low Carbon Hook Norton

The Low Carbon Hook Norton group had special concerns due to the houses being solid wall, stone cottages with thatched roofs and off gas networks. The Home Action Plan provided them with actions and help in delivering positive outcomes from traditionally difficult to treat home.

"In Stewkley we have been able to identify the measures which typically make the greatest difference to reducing our energy bills and reducing our contribution to climate change."
Roger Crews, StewkleyGreen

Since receiving their in-depth report each community member has taken at least two actions and so far it is currently estimated that each household could save an average of £600 a year.

The Home Action Plan could benefit your community group by

• Helping the individual members to work towards the groups overall aims of saving energy, saving money and cutting carbon emissions
• Driving larger actions within the community
• Spreading common actions and knowledge

If you live within the pilot area and are interested in either having one of our Home Advisors come to your next community group meeting to talk to you about the Home Action Plan please contact Lucinda French or Alison Kukla. We can support you with promotional materials for the Home Action Plan including an advertisement for your local paper or newsletter that can be personalised on request.

For further information about the Home Action Plan or to book an audit please follow this link to our website www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/homeactionplan.

*£99 for properties up to 4 bedrooms. For more complex or larger properties, please ask for an individual quotation