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Job: Project Officer – Cold to Cosy Homes

By |2022-11-23T12:20:36+00:00June 9th, 2020|Vacancies - expired|

Date posted: Tue 9 June 2020 Closing date: 11pm, Tue 30 June 2020 Join our busy team delivering Cold to Cosy Homes Cumbria and other energy-advice projects to vulnerable households across Cumbria. Our Cold to Cosy Homes service provides energy-saving advice to households along with installing energy-saving measures to save on costs, cut carbon and enjoy a cosier home. The role includes promoting the service to our network of volunteers and organisations across Cumbria and providing advice by telephone and at home visits. The role also includes analysing demand for advice, visits and installations and coordinating with [...]

Job: Project Manager – Low Carbon Communities

By |2022-11-23T12:20:18+00:00June 9th, 2020|Vacancies - expired|

Date posted: Tue 9 June 2020 Closing date: 11pm, Tue 30 June 2020 We are looking for an experienced and skilled project manager to drive practical actions to cut carbon emissions in South Lakeland. You'll coordinate and deliver support to inspire, motivate and enable communities to cut their carbon footprints in a range of ways, including through low-carbon energy. You’ll share your extensive expertise on everything from carbon footprinting and renewable energy to emission reduction for households and businesses. You’ll offer practical advice, signposting, mentoring and events, building the capacity of communities to take action and increasing [...]

Funding target reached and EV webinar!

By |2020-06-05T12:35:50+01:00June 5th, 2020|Electric vehicles, Homepage, News|

Despite pressures from the national response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the community share offer from Charge My Street has succeeded in raising £130,000 to install 100 electric vehicle (EV) chargepoints across Cumbria and Lancashire. Charge My Street and CAfS would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who put forward their own investment and to those who helped get the word out about the share offer. Investors included those who have been driving EVs for years and some who have not yet made the switch but could see the benefit of preparing our region for wide scale [...]

Secondment Opportunity:  Project Officer, Cold to Cosy Homes Cumbria

By |2020-06-09T17:43:06+01:00May 26th, 2020|Vacancies - expired|

Date posted: 26 May 2020 Closing date: 9am Tuesday 9 June 2020 We have an exciting new Secondment Opportunity to join our Energy Team as a Cold to Cosy Homes Project Officer from July 2020, initially for 3 months with possible extension. The role is to expand our successful Cold to Cosy Homes Cumbria project more widely across districts in Cumbria – expanding now specifically to Carlisle, Allerdale and Copeland – and helping Cumbrian households reduce their carbon emissions, reduce bills and keep warm. Applications are especially welcome from people who work in, or regularly engage with community organisations [...]

A message from our chief executive

By |2020-04-03T16:16:28+01:00April 3rd, 2020|Homepage, News|

How the world has changed in a short space of time. In these unprecedented times, we hope that you and your families are safe and well. We’re very much thinking about all of our supporters, as you deal with the impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic on every aspect of your lives – not least economically and socially. Even in dark times, there are some positive things to celebrate. Across Cumbria, we’ve seen individuals and communities coming together to support each other, with overwhelming responses to appeals for volunteers. People are innovating and embracing technology to stay connected with each [...]

Cold to Cosy Homes scheme responds to Covid-19

By |2020-03-19T11:07:10+00:00March 19th, 2020|Draughtproofing, Home energy efficiency, Homepage, News|

Our Cold to Cosy Homes Cumbria service has been modified in response to the Coronavirus situation. We are currently offering only the free-of-charge emergency service to vulnerable households whose gas boiler has broken down. Call free to the LEAP call centre on 0800 060 7565 to find out if you or someone you know could be eligible for a free boiler replacement. This emergency boiler scheme, called ECHO, will run for the next few weeks, until the fund is used up. The scheme is aimed at households that are vulnerable and need immediate assistance to stay warm and well [...]

Coronavirus – CAfS response

By |2023-06-01T08:40:43+01:00March 16th, 2020|Homepage, News|

Last updated: 31 May 2023 The way we're delivering some of our projects and services has been adapted to take account of the current Coronavirus guidelines. Here are some updates about our main services and activities: CAfS events We are now running both in-person and online events. We are taking Covid precautions at our in-person events. We request that for the protection of vulnerable people, you remain COVID-19 aware and follow the government guidance. Visit our events page to see events we've got planned. Cold to Cosy Homes Cumbria We're continuing to offer our free telephone advice calls, and our [...]

Job: Community Carbon Literacy Coordinator

By |2020-07-01T14:44:55+01:00February 27th, 2020|Vacancies - expired|

Date posted: 27 February 2020 Closing date: 5pm, Wednesday 25 March 2020 CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Due to the current situation with Coronavirus, we are suspending the recruitment of this post for the time being. If you were interested in applying but had not yet done so, please send an email to [email protected] by the deadline of 5pm on Wednesday 25 March 2020 to express your interest in the role. We will keep your details on file and contact you when we resume the recruitment to invite you to apply then. Details about the post - for [...]

Focus group informs EV project

By |2020-02-27T15:40:48+00:00February 27th, 2020|Electric vehicles, Homepage, News|

In last months newsletter and on our website, we put out an appeal for electric vehicle owners and non-EV owners alike to lend us their experiences and perceptions and the response we received was heartily enthusiastic! Dozens of respondents told us how they would happily give us some insight into their views on EVs, so we asked them to do exactly that over a pizza and a pint at Kendal’s Brewery Arts Centre. Because we had a wealth of respondents to choose from and only a small amount of space, we sent out invites to those who lived fairly locally [...]

EV chargepoint share offer under way

By |2020-02-28T12:52:09+00:00February 27th, 2020|Community energy, Electric vehicles, Homepage, News|

About a month ago, we mentioned that we would soon be supporting the launch of a unique community share offer that aims to change sustainable transport in the North West. Well, the launch has been and gone and the Charge My Street share offer is NOW OPEN as anyone who follows our social media should already be well aware. We’ve tweeted and Facebooked about little else since the offer went live on the 24th. We're like a new mother or Piers Morgan after a Greggs vegan pastry reveal. It closes on 31 March so you can expect to hear more [...]

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