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H&F Council is working to help local residents buy high quality solar panels from trusted suppliers.

Solar panels will help you generate your own green energy, for less. And by taking part, you'll be helping us cut carbon emissions and take action on the climate emergency.

It's open to all homeowners in the borough, or those with permission from their freeholder or landlord.

Please register your interest before Tuesday 23 March.

Thank you for taking the time to give us your views on addressing the climate and ecological emergency. We've had a great response and will be feeding back some of the key findings shortly.

In the meantime, you might have your own ideas on community projects that could improve your local environment or raise awareness of the need for all of us to play our part in helping to combat climate change. If you're inspired to set up a community garden or a food waste project, create community art from recycled materials, or raise funds for a green energy installation on a community building, you can join the many organisations across H&F who have used crowdfunding platform Spacehive to raise funds for your idea.

H&F Council has a partnership with Spacehive and have created our own page, the H&F Hive , for projects raising funds in the borough. The council has two funds on the H&F Hive to which local projects can pitch. To date, there have been 43 great projects that have successfully hit their fundraising targets, raising from less than £200 to £112,000!

Do you want to save money on your energy bills? The government is offering up to £10,000 to make your home more energy efficient with the new Green Homes Grant. If you qualify and are successful, you could get a voucher to make improvements that will:

If your household is on a low income you can apply for 100% of the cost of improvements, up to £10,000. All other homeowners and landlords can apply for up to two-thirds of the costs, receiving up to £5,000.

For example, if you’re not on a low income and you install insulation costing £4,000, you will only pay £1,320. The government would pay the remaining £2,680.

Not only could this save you hundreds of pounds per year on your energy bills, it will reduce your carbon footprint too and help in our efforts to combat the climate and ecological emergency.

If you rent your home, energy efficiency improvements to your rented home could save you money on your bills. Please get in touch with your landlord about this opportunity.

Energy improvements for your home can include:

Once you’ve used part of your voucher on these improvements, you can use any left over for upgrading single glazed windows, energy efficient doors, or hot water tank thermostats and heating controls.