Home Energy Scotland, from the Scottish Government, provide clear and impartial advice on how to keep your home warm and cosy. They help people access financial support to make energy efficient improvements to their home, such as a new heating system or insulation. This toolkit has been designed to help you support the Home Energy Scotland campaign and raise awareness with your own audiences.
The Home Energy Scotland campaign raises awareness that advice and financial support is available to help heat your home more efficiently and cheaply. People are encouraged to get in touch by phoning Home Energy Scotland on 0808 808 2282 to find out what funding they can get, no matter what their circumstances.
Visit the Home Energy Scotland website to find out more. With your support we can make people across Scotland aware that there is help out there, with the following messages:
All your activity should direct people to contacting Home Energy Scotland on 0808 808 2282 or visiting homeenergyscotland.org.
Home Energy Scotland, funded by the Scottish Government, is a network of local advice centres covering all of Scotland. They provide free and impartial advice on reducing heating costs and carry out a property assessment over the phone to identify ways to make a home more energy efficient. They will also check if householders can receive free support worth around £5000 for improvements like loft and cavity wall insulation or a new heating system.
The Home Energy Scotland campaign runs from Wednesday 17th November 2021 to Sunday 27 February 2022 across TV, press, digital social media and PR.
The primary audiences for the campaign are those who may be struggling to heat their home, although advice and support is available to everyone, no matter what their circumstances. Increased funding of £18 million has been made available to support householders install energy efficient measures in their homes and save on heating bills, so the campaign encourages people to contact Home Energy Scotland by phoning 0808 808 2282 or visiting their website www.homeenergyscotland.org.
We have various assets for this campaign that you may find useful to illustrate the story on your own channel. These are available to view and download in the links below.
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We’d be grateful if you could support the campaign via your social media channels. You can share content from Home Energy Scotland or post your own.
Home Energy Scotland Facebook
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Home Energy Scotland website
Here are a few examples social media posts you may want to send out to your followers to show your support:
Get in touch with Home Energy Scotland for support and funding to help save energy and heat your home more efficiently this winter. If the cost of heating your home is a struggle, then Home Energy Scotland, from the Scottish Government, can help. They give free and impartial advice on how you can reduce your heating bills and get help worth up to £5,000 to make your home warmer. Contact Home Energy Scotland today on 0808 808 2282.
Home Energy Scotland can help. Get in touch to find out how you could save on bills and get help worth up to £5,000 to make your home warmer. You could receive funding to make improvements like home insulation, draught proofing or even a new heating system. Over 24,000 households in Scotland have benefitted so far. Find out more – contact Home Energy Scotland today on 0808 808 2282.
The editorial content below includes information on the campaign, feel free to use this copy (or relevant sections of it) on your intranet, e-newsletter or blog platforms:
The Scottish Government has made an additional £18 million available this year to help householders install energy efficient measures and reduce their heating bills, bringing the total support available through Home Energy Scotland to £50 million in 2021-2022.
People are being urged to seek support and advice now from Home Energy Scot-land to help make their homes warmer and reduce their heating bills, which can on average be up to £300.
Financial support worth up to £5,000 is also available to make homes more energy efficient through improvements like home insulation, draught proofing or a new heating system.
Home Energy Scotland also supports households with practical advice and, where appropriate, install energy efficient improvement – making homes more energy efficient and saving householders money.
With more people spending more time at home over the past 18 months due to coronavirus, energy usage has been greater than ever. But help is out there, and Home Energy Scotland want to be able to support even more people to make energy saving improvements to their home.
Did you know that a home that isn’t well insulated can lose more than 50% of its heat through its roof and walls so making improvements can help your finances and make your home more energy efficient, comfortable and cheaper to heat while helping lower emissions in Scotland?
Home Energy Scotland provides clear and impartial advice to make your home warmer. The one-stop-shop for support is funded by Scottish Government and de-livered by Energy Saving Trust. Calls are free to 0808 808 2282 or vis-it www.homeenergyscotland.org/contact to request a call back.
Home Energy Scotland, the Scottish Government’s free energy efficiency advice service, helps people access funding for energy efficient measures along with a range of other financial support and impartial advice. If it looks like you might be eligible for help, you will be referred for an initial survey to be carried out of your home before measures are installed.
To find out exactly what you are eligible for – whatever your circumstances – call the Scottish Government’s Home Energy Scotland hotline now on 0808 808 2282 or go to www.homeenergyscotland.org/contact.
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Email: homeenergy@stripecommunications.com
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