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Get your home energy checked for free

Fuel bills are on the increase and squeezing everyone’s budget to its limit. Age Concern Barnet is currently delivering seminars throughout the borough, offering practical advice on saving money and using fuel efficiently this winter.

Age Concern Barnet is working very closely on this project with the Retired Senior and Volunteer Program (RSVP). Their Energy Challenge programme sends City and Guilds qualified volunteers into your home. They will give you free, personal, fuel cost-cutting and home warmth advice, which covers all aspects of domestic energy, including:-

• Help with reprogramming and resetting your boiler so it is more efficient.
• How to use electrical and gas appliances more efficiently.
• Advice on buying new gas and electrical appliances.
• How to insulate your home.
• Advice on damp.
• Advice on your fuel bills – perhaps you are paying too much or there is a better rate out there for you.
• Grants available to you.

If you would like a referral to RSVP for a volunteer to visit and do a free home energy check, contact Amanda Radonich, Age Concern Barnet Energy Adviser by email at amanda-finchley.acb@btconnect.com or 020 8432 1415.

Also contact Amanda if you are from a group for older people or sheltered housing scheme within the borough of Barnet and would like an energy seminar at your venue.

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