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The next Big Energy Saving Week starts on Monday 21 January 2019. It is a national campaign to help people cut their energy bills and get all the financial support they are entitled to. The week focuses on raising public awareness of how to save money on energy costs by switching energy supplier or tariff, accessing discounts or grants, and making homes more energy efficient. “During last year’s Big Energy Saving Week we helped a couple, whose boiler had broken two years...

BBC News recently published this article: There were around 50,100 excess winter deaths in England and Wales in 2017-18 - the highest since the winter of 1975-76. The increase is thought to be down to the flu, the ineffectiveness of the flu vaccine in older people and spells of very cold weather last winter. Most excess deaths occurred in women and the over-85s. An extra 6,000 deaths are estimated to have occurred during last winter compared with three years ago. Chilly...

We are delighted to announce that Community First Yorkshire have been awarded over £300,000 of British Gas Energy Trust funding to assist people living in cold homes. This is great news as it means we have additional funding to deliver more support to the clients of Warm & Well in North Yorkshire. The aims of Warm & Well in North Yorkshire is reduce the number of cold homes, cold people and cold deaths within North Yorkshire. By working in partnership, the project aims to...

Warm and Well in North Yorkshire has been reaching more people in Richmondshire thanks to the work of the Citizens Advice bus. The bus has been making regular visits to Reeth & Leyburn markets, and Catterick Garrison Tesco. It has also been to the Muker show and the Emergency Services Fair in Richmond. The bus will also visit Middleham Key Centre, and Hudswell. They have been highlighting the work we do and talking to the public about how they can get help to stay warm and well this...

Warm and Well in North Yorkshire (WWNY) is supporting National Energy Action’s Warm Homes Campaign by organising ‘Keeping Selby Warm and Well’. It will be held on Friday 26 th January 2018 at Selby DistrictCouncil. The Warm Homes Campaign are highlighting the fact that over a million families won’t be able to meet basic costs of living this winter, facing an income shortfall of up to £778 per month to cover basic essentials, including energy....