Advice to help reduce your bills
Energy Saving Trust
Provide households and businesses with free energy saving advice to help lower their fuel bills and improve their carbon footprint. Find out more on the Energy Saving Trust website.
Save water
Find out some top tips to help save water in your home and the garden - visit the Yorkshire Water website.
Help with keeping warm
Fuel Bank Foundation
This organisation provides emergency heat and light to those households who have run out of cash and have not been able to keep their prepayment gas and electricity meters topped up. For details visit the Fuel Bank Foundation website.
Warm Welcome Spaces
If you need a Warm Welcome Space near your home during winter find out more on the Warm Welcome Space website.
Radio Teleswitch Service meter switch off
If you have electric heating you may have a Radio Teleswitch Service (RTS) meter. From 30 June 2025, the technology controlling these meters will start to be phased out. Your energy supplier will contact you if you are affected. For further details visit the Energy Saving Trust's RTS meter page.
Government schemes
Boiler Upgrade Scheme
Apply for a grant from the government to cover part of the cost of replacing your fossil fuel heating system with a heat pump or biomass boiler. Suitable for homeowners and small business owners. Apply for the Boiler Upgrade Scheme on the government website.
Great British Insulation Scheme
You may be eligible to get free or cheaper cavity wall or loft insulation to help reduce your home's energy bills. The scheme is open to homeowners, landlords or tenants. Apply for support from the Great British Insulation Scheme on the government website.