Energy Champion Training Wealden- Community Engagement

Energy Champions are friendly, helpful, and knowledgeable local people who are passionate about making a difference to the environment as well as the welfare of their local community.

As an Energy Champion, you will receive free training and ongoing in person support to give energy advice to local people and help them to bring down their energy bills and save energy. You might also set up Community Energy projects such as thermal imaging, draught busting, solar streets, hosting energy workshops and more.

The role is very rewarding as it’s a chance to genuinely help people in a very tangible way. Energy Champions not only address the cost of living crisis by helping to bring down energy costs, they do something about climate change by bringing down carbon emissions too.

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The Wealden Energy Champion project is funded by the National Lottery Reaching Communities fund.

Who is this for?

T his training session is for anyone that has attended the first energy champions training .

E nergy Champions will receive ongoing training and support from Energise Sussex Coast to enable them to give energy advice and organise events/ activities around energy saving and renewable energy. Energy Champions volunteer from 4 hours a month +.

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The Community Engagement training covers the following topics:

• An introduction to different types of Energy Champion activities

• Identifying the issues you want to tackle

• An exercise to identify the issues and target groups in your community that you’d like to focus your Energy Champion activities on.

• Pros and cons for your energy advice-based undertaking Assessing the different types of activities and what will work for your group

• Start to create an informed community engagement plan Drafting your community engagement activities and plan

• Communication skills during approaching and providing light touch energy advice Active listening and communication skills – the dos and the don’ts

• Roleplay practice. Practice being an Energy Champion!

• Close of training day and next steps

Refreshments will be provided for all attendees.

I f you're unable to make this date but would like to attend the training please let us know as we'll add another date later on in the year.

F acilitators

T he workshop will be facilitated by Kate Meakin and Chris Richards from Energise Sussex Coast. Kate is a Director of Energise Sussex Coast and the solar co-op Energise South. Kate manages the award winning energy advice for Energise Sussex Coast. She has years of experience of doing energy advice work and is a very experienced trainer.

Chris Richards is the energy champions co-ordinator at Energise Sussex Coast and will be supporting you on your energy champion journey.