Are you involved in your local community or do you work for a voluntary or public sector organisation?
Run over 3 sessions (1.5 hours per week), this enjoyable and informative course aims to raise awareness of ways to save energy, support schemes, and how you can advise others to reduce costs and manage energy bills. We will provide practical resources that you can share with others and send out regular newsletters and updates after the course.
This information continues to be absolutely vital. The cost-of-living and energy crises are far from over, households continue to make difficult choices around heating their homes and levels of energy debt are rising.
You will learn about:
- Fuel poverty and the impact on health
- The current situation around energy prices, energy suppliers and ways to pay for energy
- Understanding an energy bill and tips to manage bills
- Understanding energy use in the home
- Energy efficiency and energy saving tips
- Carbon monoxide awareness and unsafe heating/cooking methods
- Financial grants and other support schemes to help vulnerable groups pay their bills and cut costs
- Becoming part of a network of Community Energy Ambassadors
All content is updated for every course to reflect ongoing changes in the world of energy.
Please note that this is a 3-week course, 1.5 hours per week
Mon 13th May 2024, 1-2.30pm
Mon 20th May 2024, 1-2.30pm
NB there is an intentional gap for the bank holiday on 27th May
Mon 3rd June 2024, 1-2.30pm
The course is funded by Northern Gas Networks and is free to anyone who is based within their operating area (most of Yorkshire, Northern Cumbria and the North East of England).
F eedback from previous courses
This will be our 53rd Energy Ambassadors course since the project kicked off at the start of the first Covid lockdown in April 2020 and we have received some excellent feedback:
"This has to have been one of the most useful and informative courses I have attended in a long time, with direct relevance to our client group (older people) at this time".
"One of the best courses, informative, interesting and useful. Trainers who delivered made the course enjoyable. Great team."
"Excellent course. As well as actually enjoying it, I really felt I learnt a lot of relevant information which will help our clients and also my own knowledge/experience. Kate and Chris have to be congratulated on being so up to date in a very changing/challenging period. Brilliant."
"One of the best courses for information I have ever done - delivered really well and very engaging facilitators thank you"
"It was brilliant. Pitched at the right level. Each session was the perfect length of time. Lots of great information and signposting"
"All of the course content was helpful. Best course I have attended in ages. Thank you"
