Warm Homes, Healthy Futures
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Warm Homes, Healthy Futures is a National Energy Action-led project. It is a nationally co-ordinated network, connecting health and social care sectors, that delivers support locally to keep people warm, safe and healthy at home.
Working in partnership to tackle fuel poverty and improve health
Warm Homes, Healthy Futures is National Energy Action led project. It is a nationally co-ordinated network, connecting health and social care sectors, that delivers support locally to keep people warm, safe and healthy at home.
Together, we – with health, housing and energy experts – are working to tackle fuel poverty and improve health for thousands of people across England, Scotland and Wales.
National Energy Action and partners work to support local health and housing bodies to harness critical insights and evidence the positive impact that fuel poverty services have.
These insights highlight best practice in delivery, the benefits to health, as well as the lived experience of support.
The programme enable effective partnership working between health, energy and housing, working collaboratively at area-based levels to tackle health inequalities and fuel poverty as part of a shared agenda.
The link between cold homes and unhealthy futures
Damp
Up to 50%
Damp homes are linked to a 30-50% increase in respiratory problems.
Cold homes can kill
10,000
On average, 10,000 people die each year from living in a cold home. And for every death there are eight no-fatal hospital admissions.
Mental health
25%
A quarter of young people living in cold homes have multiple mental health risks, compared to 1 in 20 in warm homes.
Impact of our Warm Homes, Healthy Futures programme
Number of people we’ve helped
48,000
Our programme has reached almost 50,000 people by helping connect vulnerable people to energy and safety advice, income maximisation, essential gas appliance servicing, and other related crisis support.
Social return on investment
£16.55
National Energy Action’s Social Return on Investment model indicated that the programme has so far unlocked £16.55 in total social value per £1 invested.
Frontline workers trained
3,131
Over 3,000 frontline workers were upskilled through a mix of face-to-face awareness sessions, and monthly training webinars were delivered to frontline organisations.
Because of my daughter’s medical equipment, we can’t cut back on electricity but we cut back on everything else . Our energy adviser got us a new cooker and a winter warmth support pack, insulation items and a heated drying rack. Now we’re ont rationing every tiny thing.
Warm Homes, Healthy Futures client