Community Action
How Fuel Poverty Community Action Helps
What is community action, and why does it matter?
Community action is the pulling together of sectors to reliably tackle fuel poverty sustainably. CAP provided these tools and assisted in creating blueprint for best practices.
The Benefits Of Community Action:
Community Engagement
Individuals building ongoing and permanent relationships.
Community Cohesion
A common vision and a sense of belonging for all residents.
Community Regeneration
Enabling communities in decline to rebuild themselves.
Enabling Sustained Community Innovation & Cooperation
We developed an innovative model that enabled key sections of communities to come together and form coherent, reliable networks that could work alongside authorities to tackle their own local fuel poverty challenges, using a cost effective, sustainable and proven framework. Coming together gets things moving!
By supporting community networks comprised of organisations, local authorities and businesses, we enabled teams of skilled, committed stakeholders to diagnose the challenges specific to their area and tackle fuel poverty together, sustainably.
Community action is not about big budgets or complexity; the CAP core principles were about bringing people from all walks of life together to work on practical initiatives and activities that promote simple, but highly effective measures to raise awareness of the problem, transmit practical frontline knowledge and share advice on relevant topics around fuel poverty to as many people as possible.
Find Community Action Initiatives In Your Area
The vital message of energy saving and fuel poverty is being challenged near you. There are lots of intiatives going on locally. Find out more about your region by using our community action directory.
Community Action Near MeWhat Activities Did CAP Deliver?
Over two years CAP delivered an innovative range of support, planning, assistance and community activities to local authorities, organisations and individuals across the UK, uniquely tailoring each project based on stakeholder requirements, situational factors, locality and budget.
Community Action Awards
Industry Wide | Nationwide
Recognition for councils, charities, stakeholders and industry persons for their hard work and the differences they have made regionally.
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Community Literature & Resources
Local Authority | Frontline Workers
Raising awareness and giving frontline workers the tools needed to recognise those who require help, directly impacting the fuel poor.
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Join The Fight Against Fuel Poverty
If you would like to get involved tackling fuel poverty through community action, please have a look at the following sections. You might want to start with case studies to see how other people have made a difference in their community, and then when you're ready, head over to the toolkit or knowledge & resources page to find and download resource articles that are relevant to your objectives. Good luck!
Your Community Action Initiative
Got ideas for your own fuel poverty tackling initiatives? Our resource toolkit can help stakeholders get started or build on their existing knowledge.
