This is our project set up in partnership with the Dumfries and Galloway Seniors Forum.

What do we do?

Essentially, if you are over 60, we will try to help you with any problems you might have with heating your home and keeping warm. However, we are particularly interested in contacting those on the lowest income. So, if you are getting Pension Credit or certain other benefits we really would like to hear from you.

How have we done so far?

Well, we only started in April and we've done a lot to try to get our message out to those who need the sort of help we can provide. This has been really hard, but I think if you see what we've done so far you will agree that we haven't done too bad:

• So far we have sent out more than 7500 brochures with information and advice.
• We have provided personalized advice to over 90 people region wide.
• We helped over 30 of those people to change their tariff and pay less for their gas or electricity.
• About half of those people who contacted us where helped to register for their power company’s Priority Register.
• Already, 14 people have been put forward to receive grants for insulation or central heating.

We are pleased with those results so far, but we know that it isn’t nearly enough. We know that there are lots of people out there who are struggling to heat their homes. We will keep on trying to find those people by whatever means it takes, but if you know someone – please tell them about us. Help us to make sure that no one in Dumfries and Galloway is sitting in a house they can’t afford to heat, when there is help available that they just didn’t know about.