Keeping warm

In Stockport, an estimated 20,000 properties do not reach the current standard of being adequately heated and this can affect people's general health and wellbeing.

The Council has a wide range of services, advice and support available to anybody who needs help with heating their home or staying fit and well during the winter.

Stockport's Kill the Chill Campaign

This has been launched to inform Stockport's communities about the growing problem of keeping warm in winter and how to overcome the rising costs of electricity and gas in the current economic climate. It provides information and advice on heating your home, managing the money and keeping warm. 

Visit the Kill the Chill webpages

 

AWARM (Affordable Warmth Access and Referral Mechanism)

This helps vulnerable households in getting help and advice to keep warm in their homes, by improving warmth in homes, maximising people's income and providing debt advice, fire safety checks, home repairs and security.

Visit the AWARM webpages

 

Handy Help Service

If you are aged 50 and over, Age Concern Stockport's Handy Help Service can give you information about local tradesmen who can install energy saving measures that will help you to stay warm at home and also help to reduce your fuel bills. They can help with minor repairs, installing smoke alarms and changing batteries etc. The service is free but they will ask for a small administrative fee.

Useful contacts

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Energy Savings Trust Advice Centre
Address: 21 Dartmouth Street, London, SW1H 9BP
Phone: 0800 512 012
Fax: 020 7654 2460
Web: www.energysavingtrust.org.uk
Email: energy.efficiency@stockport.gov.uk

Age UK Stockport (Handy Help & Gardening Service)
Address: Commonweal, 56 Wellington Street, Stockport SK1 3AQ
Phone: 0161 480 1211
Fax: 0161 480 3735
Web: www.ageukstockport.org.uk
Email: admin@ageukstockport.org.uk