Organisations we work with

Groundwork

Energy Saving Trust and Groundwork have developed a partnership to support communities in taking effective action on climate change. The aim of this partnership is to help both organisations deliver more effectively to communities by combining Energy Saving Trust’s expertise on carbon emissions reduction with Groundwork’s expertise on community development, regeneration and employability.

This partnership will operate at national level but will provide good opportunities for Groundwork locally and regionally to work in partnership with Energy Saving Trust advice centres with the ultimate aim to help communities to act effectively together to achieve carbon emissions reductions.

http://www.groundwork.org.uk

Greener Living Fund

Defra launched the Greener Living Fund as part of their Third Sector Strategy in November 2008 to promote greener living across England. The Third Sector includes voluntary and community organisations, charities, non-Governmental organisations, co-operatives and social enterprises. Over £6million has been made available to develop and support projects run by national Third Sector delivery partners between June 2009 and March 2011. For information on all successful Greener Living Fund projects please visit the website:

www.greenerlivingfund.org.uk

The 8 succesful delivery partners are:

Centre for Sustainable Energy

The Energy Saving Trust has been working in collaboration with the national charity the Centre for Sustainable Energy since 2004 in the delivery of the Green Communities programme (formerly Community Action for Energy). Through our free membership network we support more than 3000 community groups and organisations nationally to take action on climate change.

www.cse.org.uk

East of England Development Agency

The Energy Saving Trust has been working with the East of England Development Agency (EEDA) since 2008 to develop the Green Communities ' Community Carbon Footprint Tool'. Originally developed by EEDA as partof the 'Cut your Carbon' campaign, the community carbon footprint tool was designed to support community groups in the East of England to measure their carbon emissions at a community and household level, and identify suitable ways to reduce their impact on the
environment. Following the success of the Cut your Carbon programme EEDA and the Energy Saving Trust are now working collaboratively to support sustainable energy projects and ensure that communities throughout the UK can access this tool.

www.eeda.org.uk