Charities warn recent broken manifesto promise means the poorest households, living in least efficient homes are set to miss out on up to £750 a year cut to their energy bills

This year NEA is celebrating our 40-year anniversary and we want to spend this milestone by bringing together our supporters across the whole of the UK, surpassing last year’s event and crucially investigating new opportunities to work together to end fuel poverty.

The Warm Home Discount (WHD) scheme currently provides a payment of £140 (inclusive of VAT) towards energy bills, and also contains provisions to carry out projects to help low-income and vulnerable households to better afford their energy bill. The scheme was introduced by the Government in April 2011 and is an obligation on energy suppliers funded through bills.