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Charitable Programmes

  If you cannot afford warm and healthy home, we can help you!

Community Energy Action is a charitable trust, and surpluses from our work are reinvested in our charitable programmes. These programmes ensure vulnerable people in our community can keep warm and healthy. A warm and dry home benefits health.

 

Our charitable programmes

Community Energy Action is currently running the following charitable programmes:

  • Warm Families, a targeted programme  for those with medical conditions
  • Warm Babies, a targeted programme for families with small children (0-4 years old)
  • Elderly Health, a targeted programme for older people.
  • Community Energy Action Discretionary Fund, a fund that provides funding for insulation and heating for those in extreme hardship.
  • Curtain Bank, providing recycled lined or thermal curtains for Community Services Card holders.
  • Energy Advice Service, a free advice service on all home energy issues.

 

If you cannot afford to keep warm and do not fit into any of these programmes, please contact us. We may still be able to help you.

 

Please be aware that we get very busy in winter and can have a long waiting list during that time. You are advised to contact us well before it gets cold if you need help!


Your warm house helps your community

Community Energy Action does not have annual appeals in which we ask for money.  Instead you can support our charitable programmes by using Community Energy Action to install your insulation and heating. The surpluses from our ‘general' subsidised insulation service are combined with funding from our sponsors to provide a higher subsidy to vulnerable people, such as the elderly, families with newborn babies and those with cold-related health conditions.

 

Another way you can help is by donating your old curtains to the Curtain Bank.

 

 

Warm Families   

Warm Families is funded by by ENERGYWISETM and Partnership Health subsidies with extra support from Community Energy Action surpluses and supported by the Canterbury District Health Board via Community and Public Health. 

 

Warm Families assists people with a health condition that is likely to improve when their home is warm and dry. The programme's objective is to improve the health of those with a medical condition by installing insulation and efficient heating.

To be eligible, homeowners or tenants must hold a Community Services Card and live in a house built before 2000. Any cost to the homeowner is negotiable and inability to pay will not exclude you from this programme. Tenants are encouraged to make enquiries but we will need the landlord’s permission to provide a quote. Housing New Zealand Corporation and City Council tenants are not eligible for this programme.  


To see if you are eligible ask your GP, medical specialist or other medical professional to refer you to the Warm Families Programme by filling in referral form and sending to Community Energy Action. You may not need a signature from your doctor if you have any other proof of your medical condition. Please contact the office for more information.

 

MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS ONLY:

 

FOR HOUSEHOLDS:

If you think you are eligible for Warm Families:

  • ask your GP or medical specialist to fill in the referral form

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Warm Babies

 

The Warm Babies Programme is funded by ENERGYWISETM subsidies with extra support from Community Energy Action surpluses.

 

The Warm Babies Programme assists families on a low income with a preschooler (any child under 5) who live in a cold and/or damp house. The programme's objective is to protect the health of children by making their homes warm and dry by the installation of insulation and efficient heating.

 

The project is open to both homeowners and tenants (a financial contribution is

necessary from the landlord). Housing New Zealand Corporation and City Council tenants are not eligible for this programme. Any cost to the homeowner can be negotiated and inability to pay will not exclude someone from the project. To be eligible for this programme, homeowners or tenants must hold a Community Services Card and live in a house built before 2000.

 

To see if you are eligible ask your Plunket Nurse to refer you to the Warm Babies Programme or print out and fill in the self-referral form and return to Community Energy Action.

 

MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS AND SOCIAL WORKERS ONLY:

 

FOR HOUSEHOLDS:

If you think you are eligible for Warm Babies:

 

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Elderly Health Programme

The Elderly Health Programme is funded by ENERGYWISETM subsidies with extra sponsorship support from Canterbury Community Trust and Community Energy Action surpluses.

 

The Elderly Health Programme assists people 65 years and older with a cold-related health condition who live in a cold and/or damp house. The programme's objective is to protect the health of older people by making their homes warm and dry by the installation of insulation and efficient heating.

 

The project is open to both homeowners and tenants (a financial contribution is necessary from the landlord). Housing New Zealand Corporation and City Council tenants are not eligible for this programme. Any cost to the homeowner can be negotiated and inability to pay will not exclude someone from the project. To be eligible for this programme, homeowners or tenants must hold a Community Services Card and live in a house built before 2000.

 

To see if you are eligible, print out and fill in the self-referral form and return to Community Energy Action.

 

 

MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS AND SOCIAL WORKERS ONLY:

 

FOR HOUSEHOLDS:

If you think you are eligible for Elderly Health:

 

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Community Energy Action is supported by: