[Jo] We've talked about earlier on in the programme about how heat and power of our homes is a huge contributor to carbon emissions. And we've had a couple of people certainly within the breakouts I've been part of around how we can get better at that. Carbon emissions make up 25% of global emissions, the ones that are in our actual homes. Is that right? So, yeah, lots to think about there. So I'm going to introduce you because you're the expert and, tell us a bit more about Energyworks and the work that you do around energy efficiency. [Andy] Well, I will do. Hello, I'm Andy from Goundwork. Specifically, Energyworks. We work out in the communities of Greater Manchester, Stockport and up into East Lancashire, basically trying to help as many people as we can be more fuel efficient, save money, save energy and save carbon because they're all intertwined. Groundwork is a lot bigger than just Energyworks. We do a lot of stuff out and about, we do the community engagement with landscaping, training, coaching, employment. We've got a big Kickstart scheme going at the moment and sustainable business. It's a lot. It's a whole bunch of stuff. And as we are a charity, we do all of this to benefit communities as well as the natural environment. But I will talk about initially the main people that we work with are people that are living in fuel poverty. It's got a lot more of the spotlight. If we go into the next slide, there's a few facts that we can that we can look at. There we go. So it's coming into the spotlight now with all the issues with the prices going up, with the gas, the gas prices going up and everything, but fuel poverty has always been there. They've changed the definition slightly. So it looks at the efficiency of your house now, as well as the high costs and low income that normally would define a household to be in fuel poverty. But as you can see, 11% of households in England are estimated to be in fuel poverty. One in five are private sector and one in ten are on pre-payment that are struggling and at risk of being self-disconnected, which basically means that they don't have enough money left on there in the bank to be able to keep the lights on and the heating on, which in this day and age I know a lot of people probably wouldn't think is a thing. So we work out in the communities to try and help as best we can prevent this, working with energy companies, with residents either in the home, over the phone, whatever is necessary to either get these people back online, back on supply, or to find them some sort of additional income. And if we move on to the next slide, you can see some some statistics of fuel poverty across the boroughs of Greater Manchester as well as the region of England. And you can see Stockpot is ever so slightly below the national average for England. We essentially want that number to be zero, regardless of what it might be. We don't want people living in fuel poverty and in my eyes, if that number than bigger than zero, we still have a lot of work to do to support people with energy efficiency in the home. And if we want to move on to the next slide, I think it goes without saying that there are a lot of health impacts and a lot of things that come with living in a cold home. Be it just the physical health conditions. And then that, in turn, does have a massive mental health impact as well. And it says there, 23,200 excess winter deaths due to cold homes, which did get worse with Covid. Obviously, with people not wanting to leave their homes or a lot of people we came across that was sat living in cold homes, not wanting to visit the hospital or not wanting to go out and top up their meters. I'm sorry that I've depressed everybody with it, but we are here to help people with that. You can probably tell I can probably speak for hours and hours, but I've picked one kind of section, we can have a look at the retrofit side of it because I know that's in the news a lot. So if we move on to onto this and we can just run through quickly, some of the things we can look at. If we look on the next slide there is ECO Funding that's available. So this is a government led scheme. You can access it through your energy company, and you can get large scale home improvements at reduced costs, dependent on your income and whether you are in receipt of benefits. This is something again that we can help with at Energyworks. We we can put through to some of our schemes that will see if you're eligible and we'll run through that with people. So it's cavity wall, loft insulation, room in roof. We'll have a look at replacement heating systems - namely, at the moment, we're still replacing boilers with new ones if they are broken. The Green Homes Grant, we've all probably heard of that, is still going but it's led by local authority now, not through the centralised government portal and for Greater Manchester it is E-on. And again we can have a look at what we can do in terms of getting houses. I signed up for improvements at a reduced cost, and what we do essentially is a mini audit of the house. When we come out and do a home visit, we'll have a look at the heating system, we'll have a look at the insulation. We'll have a look at bills and make sure people aren't paying too much and we'll fit small measures. If we move on to the next slide. It's what what we call small measures, which are LED light bulbs, radiator reflector panels, draught proofing and we'll have a look at water savings as well. The projects that we've got on at the moment. As long as the eligibility criteria is hit, there will be no cost to the customer or the resident, it's completely free. All of this, including these measures. The criteria is quite extensive, but it's also quite broad, so it's income related, benefits related, and it's health condition as well. So it's always worth coming across to us. Radiator panels, I will say this to everybody here: it's very easy to make your own. If you just stick some tin foil over some cardboard and stick it behind your radiator, and it will push some of that heat back into your rooms. It's fantastic. Honestly, you might think it's a really silly thing to do, but especially on outside walls or radiators under windows. I know a lot of people do have radiators under windows, it'll just push some of that heat back into the house, and it can save you quite a lot of money. You can turn your radiator thermostats down, or you can even turn the boiler thermostat down so they don't get as hot because more of that heat is coming into your room and it'll save you some money. It'll save gas. It'll save carbon. Absolutely fantastic thing to do. Another thing we can all do is change our energy efficient behaviours around the house. I know that's that's quite small there, but there are little things you can do around the house that have big implications, and they all add up and you've all seen in the news there's no savings to be made. You Switch has stopped offering new deals and a lot of energy companies - there's just nothing out there that's cheaper. So the only way that we can save money around the house is to change what we do and how we do it in the house. Like you can see here, this is another big thing. What we do when we come out to do visits, we'll have a look around and the team are fantastic. They'll notice things like that like, right, if you didn't do this, you'd save this much money. If you don't do that, if you do this instead of that, if you need your heating to be on ever so slightly more, let's have a look at what we can do to reduce that, to offset that cost. But as you can see, I mean just keep keeping the doors closed. It's a pound, but that in conjunction with draught proofing and reducing appliances on stand by, it really does start to add up. Keeping thermostats between 18 and 21 is fantastic, about 50 quid, and it might not look like a lot of money. But for people who are really struggling, it can be the difference between keeping your lights on and sitting in the dark, or eating tonight. I will just say something very quickly on carbon monoxide, as I think it's a massive thing. You can move on to the next slide. I'd just very much like to raise awareness. I know everyone probably knows quite a lot about carbon monoxide, but it's worth just a bit of a recap from me that if you have any of the symptoms that are on there, if somebody says anything to you that they're feeling a bit headachey, if they're feeling a bit breathless, a bit sleepy, feeling bit sick and then they're fine when they're out the house and when they go back, they start feeling the same - it's probably going to be carbon monoxide poisoning. I always say, try and get hold of a carbon monoxide alarm if you can. We do have some, we're waiting for them to be delivered, but with everybody who is on gas, be it a fire boiler or a cooker. We do tend to leave one with them just to be certain. Again, completely free. Next slide. Last slide. That's our free phone number and an email address to put referrals through to us. I can come out and do a more in depth thing with everybody, around community centres and go into loads of details. And I know we're quite pushed for time here, but I can come out and do a training session or something with the teams or whatever it might be. And if you're interested in a visit like I said, give that number a call or give that email an email and we'll get back to you!