Neighbourhood Warmth is about taking action – together

Home energy can be complicated, especially if you’re trying to figure it out alone

Neighbourhood Warmth helps people to form teams around shared home energy challenges.

Not only does working together make things easier, it can also unlock other benefits, like group buying discounts, reduced disruption, and access to funding.

What can I use Neighbourhood Warmth for?

Right now, we’re piloting Neighbourhood Warmth in a few specific areas around the UK, with local partners like Carbon Co-op in Greater Manchester.

But, eventually, our aim is that Neighbourhood Warmth will be able to support “teams” of neighbours through “challenges” including:

Understand your home

We’ll walk you through the steps of getting a Whole House Retrofit Assessment, the most comprehensive way to find out what’s right for you and your home.

Get draft proofing

There’s no need to suffer in a cold, leaky home. Draft proofing is a quick, easy way to improve your home and make new energy saving friends in your neighbourhood.

Flex your energy use

Homes with storage heaters, solar panels, batteries, or electric vehicles are ideal candidates for Energy Flexibility schemes, which can save both money and the environment.

Who runs Neighbourhood Warmth?

Neighbourhood Warmth is run by mySociety, the charity behind websites like FixMyStreet, TheyWorkForYou, and WhatDoTheyKnow.

Our free online services exist to put more power into more people’s hands, for a fairer, healthier society. Enabling more community-led home energy action is a big part of that.

But we’re also massively grateful to the organisations who have helped us design and test Neighbourhood Warmth over the last few years, including Dark Matter Labs (with whom we ran the first alpha explorations for the site in 2023) and Carbon Co-op (with whom we’re running a pilot around energy flexibility in Marple, Greater Manchester).

Our work on Neighbourhood Warmth so far has been funded by Quadrature Climate Foundation, the National Lottery Community Fund, and Aurora Trust.

Image credits: The EnergySmart Academy, Public Domain, Consumers Energy, CC-BY-NC, David Dodge, Green Energy Futures, CC-BY-NC.