Breakout session survey The breakout rooms at conference are of various sizes. To help us to allocate sessions to rooms could you give us an idea of your preferred breakout session, ranking first to fourth. This does not commit you to attending that session on the day, should you change your mind.Breakout A | Offline and Left in the Cold: How to include the digitally excluded This session explores how digital exclusion deepens and exacerbates fuel poverty, leaving many households unable to access support, manage energy accounts, or benefit from online tariffs and advice. Drawing on frontline experience and sector experts, it will examine who is most affected, the importance of building trust, and practical ways organisations can design more inclusive, accessible support for people facing fuel poverty. Chair: Tessa Kirby, Project Development Co-ordinator, National Energy Action Nicola McConnell, Digital Inclusion Lead, Sunderland City Council Robert Shapiro, Partnerships Manager, Good Things Foundation Joseph Chambers, Consultant, FarrPoint Breakout B | Retrofit: More than just the measures How do you go from the availability of grants and a choice of energy efficiency measures to a successful outcome for the household? This session will consider the different approaches to engaging people about the benefits of retrofit, how to enable the right measures to be installed, and how to support people throughout the process, including appropriate aftercare. Chair: Andrej Miller, Director of Homes, National Energy Action Lisa Beaney, Managing Director, Green Isle of Wight CIC Lorenza Casini, Carbon Co-op Breakout C | From Black Report to Blueprint: 45 years on the road to Warm Homes, Healthy Futures In 1980, the Black Report revealed how poverty, housing and living conditions drive health inequalities. A year later, National Energy Action was founded to turn that evidence into action. Forty-five years on, cold and damp homes still cause preventable ill health, but the solutions are clearer than ever. This session considers the journey from early evidence to today’s Warm Homes, Healthy Futures Blueprint, bringing together voices from different sectors to explore how we scale, fund and deliver flexible, health-connected fuel poverty programmes for the decades ahead. Chair: Danielle Butler, Head of Development, National Energy Action Dr Brenda Boardman, Emeritus Fellow, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford Laura Ratcliffe, Social Strategy Programme Manager, Northern Gas Networks Dr Ffion Prothero, GP, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board Jo Bibby, Director of Health, The Health FoundationBreakout D | An Introduction to the North East Combined Authority Warm Homes Taskforce Join members of the Nort East Combined Authority’s (NECA) Warm Homes Taskforce to learn about the work of NECA in reducing fuel poverty, and to feed in to the Mayor’s upcoming strategy towards warmer homes in the region. Chair: Matt Copeland, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, National Energy Action Ross Armstrong, Chief Executive, Warmworks Sharron Grant, North East Institute of Skills Laura Hood, Programme Manager (Domestic Retrofit), North East Combined Authorityj First ChoiceSELECTBreakout A | Offline and Left in the Cold: How to include the digitally excludedBreakout B | Retrofit: More than just the measuresBreakout C | From Black Report to Blueprint: 45 years on the road to Warm Homes, Healthy FuturesBreakout D | An Introduction to the North East Combined Authority Warm Homes TaskforceSecond ChoiceSELECTBreakout A | Offline and Left in the Cold: How to include the digitally excludedBreakout B | Retrofit: More than just the measuresBreakout C | From Black Report to Blueprint: 45 years on the road to Warm Homes, Healthy FuturesBreakout D | An Introduction to the North East Combined Authority Warm Homes TaskforceThird ChoiceSELECTBreakout A | Offline and Left in the Cold: How to include the digitally excludedBreakout B | Retrofit: More than just the measuresBreakout C | From Black Report to Blueprint: 45 years on the road to Warm Homes, Healthy FuturesBreakout D | An Introduction to the North East Combined Authority Warm Homes TaskforceFourth ChoiceSELECTBreakout A | Offline and Left in the Cold: How to include the digitally excludedBreakout B | Retrofit: More than just the measuresBreakout C | From Black Report to Blueprint: 45 years on the road to Warm Homes, Healthy FuturesBreakout D | An Introduction to the North East Combined Authority Warm Homes Taskforce
