Greener Kirkcaldy

[caption id="attachment_2088" align="alignright" width="300" caption="The orchard site - a beautiful location with loads of potential"][/caption] We've now signed a lease for a community orchard space at the new Ravenscraig allotment site. We have been fortunate to get some funding from the Peoples Postcode Trust to develop the orchard and and are ...

We are delighted to have been awarded £49,431 to work with families with children on affordable warmth over the next two years. The Kozy Kirkcaldy Kids project will help to provide children with a better start in life by helping their families to stay warm and comfortable while spending a lower ...

We are delighted to have been awarded £382,116 to work on making Kirkcaldy greener over the next three years. The Kirkcaldy Goes Greener! project will help households reduce their carbon footprints and learn about positive community-based solutions to climate change. Our food and waste projects will encourage people to grow and ...

Understanding how to drive more efficiently could save you a lot of money on your fuel bills. The Energy Saving Trust estimate that after training you could save as much as two months’ worth of fuel. Greener Kirkcaldy organised fuel efficient driving sessions last summer. The drivers who took the training ...

If you would like the chance of winning a condensing combination boiler then the Energy Saving Trust are running a competition you may like to enter. Details on the link.

Let us help you get your heating and electricity bills under control. We can help you access free or subsidised insulation or heating improvements check that you are getting the best deal from your energy supplier carry out simple energy saving improvements in your home, free of charge to eligible people advise on ...

[caption id="attachment_1599" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Home handyman Sandy on left, plus assistant"][/caption] Our handyman provides simple measures to reduce your heating bills. These can make a real difference to your comfort too. What will the handyman do? Things like draughtproofing doors and windows, insulating pipes, putting an extra jacket round your hot water ...

A number of useful news items which may be of interest to you have scrolled off our main news section, or will do soon. Here they are, gathered together. Get them while they are available. Free cavity wall and loft insulation is available in Glenrothes. An interest free loan is available for ...

Some great news - we have been awarded £8,000 by the Comic Relief Local Communities fund, to help older people to stay warm and comfortable while reducing their fuel bills this year. The Greener Kirkcaldy energy advisors will work with older people who are struggling to pay high fuel bills, ...

Solar PV panels produce electricity from sunlight. They reduce your greenhouse gas emissions immediately and have a financial payback over the medium term. The Energy Saving Scotland advice centre South East has been running a promotional offer in partnership with an installer and Fife Council. They wrote to households within target ...

We are expanding our staff team after being awarded funding by the Climate Challenge Fund for our Kirkcaldy Goes Greener! Project. The new project will centre on community engagement and volunteer development, with practical projects focussing on energy efficiency in older ‘hard to heat’ properties; sustainable food events and skills ...

The Scottish Government has announced that "Households in every local authority area in Scotland will be offered free insulation measures under the Universal Home Insulation Scheme". This means free cavity wall and loft insulation for all households in Fife, regardless of income and property size, on a first-come, first-served basis. Extensions ...

A motion congratulating Greener Kirkcaldy on being awarded Climate Challenge Funding has been put forward by Kirkcaldy Constituency MSP David Torrance. In his accompanying letter Mr Torrance says that we are providing a crucial service to the community and he wishes us all the best in making Kirkcaldy a greener community. We ...

Energy Assistance Package results We recently received feedback from the Energy Assistance Package, from which we can estimate the savings we have helped people to make and the result of income maximisation. For further details of the calculations see Appendix 2 of our report for November 2011 to January 2012. The Scottish ...

The Warm Home Discount is a four year scheme which replaces the social tariffs some households got from their suppliers. There are two groups the discoiunt is aimed at: The Core Group The Broader Group The Core Group is a specified group of older customers on low incomes. For the first year of ...

We recently compiled our second short report on the progress of our Lang Toun Energy Savers project from August to October (Acrobat file 1.3 MB). It is very readable and only seven pages long. This project is funded by the Ebico Trust for Sustainable Development and we are very grateful ...

You may have heard of the Green Deal and ECO (Energy Company Obligation). These are the UK government's new schemes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as they have to under the 2008 Climate Change Act. Green Deal/ECO will replace a swathe of schemes in use at the moment, dramatically changing ...

Fife Council successfully bid to the Scottish Government’s Universal Home Insulation Scheme for £575,000 to run the scheme in partnership with Energy Saving Scotland advice centre (ESSac) and the installer Everwarm. Letters about this offer should now have arrived at eligible households. Anyone who is unsure about this ...

A Scottish Government pilot scheme to help people with solid wall insulation in Fife (and Orkney) has been announced. This pilot scheme will take the form of an interest free loan for installing insulation. It will be run by the Energy Saving Scotland advice centre (ESSac) and offer a loan ...

We have updated our About Us page. As well as all of our funders we have gathered reports on our past and current projects into one place. We have also added our annual accounts and Memorandum and Articles of Association (our constitution). Under s.23 (1) (a) and (b) of the Charities ...