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The success of your Warm Zone is dependent on three key elements:

• Development funding
• Measures funding
• Zone team costs

Development funding will support:

• Business planning
• Energy company EEC partner selection
• Installer tendering
  

Physical measures funding will typically cover:

• Loft & cavity wall insulation
• Central heating systems and controls
• Draughtproofing
• Low energy lightbulbs

Soft measures funding
Insulation, heating and other ‘physical’ measures are only part of the equation. Income maximisation and reduced running costs are also vital to the overall success of a Zone.

Comprehensive energy efficiency advice backed up by benefits health-checks and advice can make more of an impact than physical measures alone.

Zone team costs
The local Warm Zone team will provide the support services required to ensure:

• A highly effective assessment programme
• High-value data processing and timely reporting
• Pre-measures surveys and after-measures quality assurance checks
• Efficient measures scheme management for the non-fuel-poor
• Benefits health checks/referral and energy efficiency advice
• Focused marketing and high visibility involvement in the community
• Delivery of the overall programme objectives through partnership working

Team costs can be covered through cash contributions, grants, fees and in-kind support including secondments, premises, telephone and IT costs.

Funding sources
The Warm Zones aim is to access all available funding sources to make up a package that will support both measures and team costs, ensuring that we meet the ‘something for everyone’ objective. Potential sources of funds to meet the costs of delivering the programme include:

• Local authority contribution/ALMO capital receipts
• Energy Efficiency Commitment (EEC) – EEC requires electricity and gas suppliers to achieve energy saving targets by promoting improvements in energy efficiency in households in Great Britain. Suppliers encourage and assist their domestic consumers to make energy savings through measures such as cavity wall and loft insulation and energy efficient boilers, appliances and light bulbs. EEC2 runs for the period 2005-8 and is the successor to an earlier EEC programme completed in April 2005
• European Social Fund and Regional Development Funds - The European Social Fund (ESF) is one of four structural funds designed to strengthen economic and social cohesion in the European Union. ESF’s main purpose is to support the annual UK Employment Action Plan
• Warm Front scheme - The Warm Front grant introduced by Government in June 2000 was revised from summer 2005 as Warm Front 2. It provides a package, up to the value of £2700, of insulation and heating measures to qualifying households in the private sector (£4000 in the case of oil-fired central heating). Click here for full scheme details.
• Neighbourhood Renewal Funding (NRF) - In 2002, the Government launched the Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy in England and Wales. The strategy aims to ensure that no-one is disadvantaged by where they live. Neighbourhood renewal is about focusing on the issues that contribute to deprivation, including crime, inadequate public services, lack of health provision and poor housing
• Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder funding - Set up by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister to improve the future for people in designated areas
• Primary Care Trusts – PCTs have discretionary funding available to support health-related projects