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EnergyTranslating— CitizensTranslatingManchester CitizensTranslatingManchester Home How we can help DebtTranslatingEnergyTranslatingFace to Face Facebook Messenger Hate Crime HousingTranslatingMoneySmart Training Stay Safe Online Training Pension Wise Self Help SkypeTranslatingTelephone Universal Credit Support Web Chat Assisted Digital Visa Service Other Help Volunteering Volunteer Roles Benefits of volunteering Apply to Volunteer DigitalTranslatingEvents Volunteer Telephone Triage Assessor Volunteer Receptionist Campaigning Work with Us News What we doWell-nighUs Disclaimer and Copyright Privacy Policy Contact Us Our Trustees Log in Make a Referral WAD Survey Home/ How we can help/Debt AdviceEnergy AdviceFace to FaceFacebook MessengerHate CrimeHousing AdviceMoneySmart TrainingStay Safe Online TrainingPension WiseSelf HelpSkype AdviceTelephoneUniversal Credit SupportWeb ChatAssisted Digital Visa ServiceOther Help Volunteering/Volunteer RolesBenefits of volunteeringApply to VolunteerDigital AdviceEvents VolunteerTelephone Triage AssessorVolunteer Receptionist Campaigning/ Work with Us/ News/ What we do/About UsDisclaimer and CopyrightPrivacy PolicyContact UsOur Trustees Log in/Make a ReferralWAD Survey EnergyTranslatingCitizensTranslatingManchester EnergyTranslatingTeam is defended to helping gainsay fuel poverty and provides one-to-one translating and support to people experiencing difficulties with their energy financing or who are at risk of fuel poverty.  Home/ How we can help/Debt AdviceEnergy AdviceFace to FaceFacebook MessengerHate CrimeHousing AdviceMoneySmart TrainingStay Safe Online TrainingPension WiseSelf HelpSkype AdviceTelephoneUniversal Credit SupportWeb ChatAssisted Digital Visa ServiceOther Help Volunteering/Volunteer RolesBenefits of volunteeringApply to VolunteerDigital AdviceEvents VolunteerTelephone Triage AssessorVolunteer Receptionist Campaigning/ Work with Us/ News/ What we do/About UsDisclaimer and CopyrightPrivacy PolicyContact UsOur Trustees Log in/Make a ReferralWAD Survey Warm HomesUnbelieve2018/9 is OPEN!Check with your Energy supplier for eligibility criteria and dates.The Warm HomeUnbelieve(WHD) is a government scheme aimed at tackling fuel poverty in Great Britain. You may be eligible for £140 unbelieve if you are on a low income or in receipt of pension credit or benefits click unelevated for increasingly details:https://www.gov.uk/the-warm-home-discount-schemeUnder the scheme, energy suppliers support people who are in fuel poverty or are at risk of it. Some smaller suppliers moreover voluntarily participate in part of the scheme. Help us make Fuel Poverty historyOur defended energy translating team are trying to find out well-nigh what type of help you need and how we can make it easier to get that help.It's just a short survey and shouldn't take longer than a few minutes to answer.If there are any questions which you don't finger well-appointed answering, just let me know and we can skip them.Fill in our survey “Energy New Update”EnergyOfgem confirms ban on back-billingUtility Week, 09/03/2018, p23Research from CitizensTranslatingis featured in a Utility Week story well-nigh Ofgem’s utterance on back-billing. Last week the regulator confirmed it would formally ban gas and electricity suppliers from issuing customers with bills for energy used increasingly than 12 months previously. CitizensTranslatingresearch has found that in the most lattermost cases, some customers have received bills of increasingly than £10,000.” Thank you to everyone who joined us at the "Big Energy Saving Week"Big Energy Saving Week ran from 22 January 2018. It is a national wayfarers to help people cut people's fuel bills and get all the financial support they are entitled to.The week focused on raising public sensation of how to switch energy supplier or tariff to get the weightier deal and make homes energy efficient. This is the seventh Big Energy Saving Week and is a partnership between Citizens Advice, the Energy Saving Trust and the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy with the support of numerous organisations, charities and companies. We did all this In just one week, imagine what we do all year around.We gave EnergyTranslatingto over 500 members of the public.We gave individual one to one translating to over 100 people.We helped 24 people in one day to switch to a new energy supplier.We saved individuals over £2,200 just by waffly tariffs.We helped 38 people requirement Warm HomesUnbelieveworth £5,320 on the day.We helped 32 people put themselves onto the Priority Services Register.Using less energy ways lower bills for you and a largest environment for us all. Our team can talk to you well-nigh your energy usage and requite tailored translating on ways to reduce how much energy you use at home. We can moreover teach you well-nigh longer term improvements for your home to save energy and help you find out well-nigh what financial help is available.For increasingly information visit http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/domestic/Or visit our price comparison site belowPeople can use the CitizensTranslatingprice comparison tool to compare prices from variegated energy suppliers.Cold Weather PaymentsCold Weather Payments are one-off payments to help you pay for uneaten heating financing when it’s very cold. You’ll get a payment each time the temperature drops unelevated a specific temperature for a set period of time.You’ll only be eligible if you once get:Pension CreditIncome SupportIncome-based Job Seeker's AllowanceIncome-related Employment and Support AllowanceUniversal CreditFind out increasingly by pursuit the link at https://www.gov.uk/cold-weather-payment/further-information/The Priority Services RegisterThe Priority Services Register is a scheme that offers uneaten help and services to those who are of pensionable age, suffer from long-term ill health, are registered disabled or have a hearing / visual impairment.Each energy supplier has their own Priority Services Register. Simply contact them to see how you go well-nigh rhadamanthine registered. If you have a variegated supplier for gas and electricity, you will have to sign up to both separatelyHow we can help?Our EnergyTranslatingService is defended to helping gainsay fuel poverty and provides one-to-one translating and support to people experiencing difficulties with their energy financing or who are at risk of fuel poverty. Dealing with fuel debt, including negotiation of affordable payment arrangements and grant applications to Charitable Trusts for underage and essential household items.Accessing grants for insulation and other energy efficiency measuresFinding the cheapest supplier and tariffBudgeting for ongoing energy consumptionUnderstanding your snout & setting heating controllersDownload Some of Our LeafletsDownload our EnergyWeightierDeal Booklet Here!How Can CitizensTranslatingManchester Help Me?How Our EnergyTranslatingService Can Help.Warm HomeUnbelieveFlyer.Information on the Priority Services Register.10 Things You Need to KnowWell-nighSmart Meters.Want Cheaper Energy Bills?How to contact usIf you are an individual struggling with your utility bills please undeniability us on the whilom number or send an email to: energy@citizensadvicemanchester.org.uk If you work with clients and would like to refer them please well-constructed the referral form and email to: energy@citizensadvicemanchester.org.ukGrants to help pay off your Energy DebtsIf you’re in debt to your energy supplier, you might be worldly-wise to get a grant from a charitable trust to help pay it off.The pursuit energy companies offer grants and schemes that are unshut to anyone - and you don't have to be a customer!British Gas Energy TrustThere are moreover companies who offer grants specifically for their customers:npower Energy FundScottish Power Hardship FundOvo Energy FundEDF Energy TrustE.on Energy FundDid you know?·         Anyone getting a 4K, or ultra HD, TV for Christmas can expect worthier electricity bills? The sets, predicted to be in 9 million homes by 2019, use a third increasingly energy than HD versions, British Gas says.·         You can save energy by emptying your vacuum cleaner regularly. A full one will use increasingly energy than an empty one to do the same job, as it will take longer to do the same value of work, as well as stuff increasingly likely to unravel down.·         By setting your fridge at 3-5°C and your freezer at -18°C that will make sure they’re working at their best. Make sure you pebbles regularly virtually the when as this can stupefy your fridge’s efficiency.·         Try turning off your oven 5-10 minutes surpassing the scheduled end cooking time, depending on the total time your supplies has had in there. Ovens are one of the most energy-hungry appliances in the home and you can use the built up heat to finish the cooking.Top Tips For Saving Energy1. Free your RadiatorMoving furniture yonder from radiators can help make a room increasingly well-appointed by letting the warmth circulate largest – 42 per cent of homes have one or increasingly radiators obstructed by furniture. 2. Cut the DraughtDraught-proofing windows and doors could save you scrutinizingly £30 a year—and 46 per cent of households still haven't washed-up this. 3. Be BrighterReplacing all standard bulbs and halogen spotlights in your home with energy saving light bulbs such as LED's could save you £35 a year. 4. Don't Stand byYou can save virtually £30 a year just by remembering to turn your appliances off standby mode.5. Kettle CorrectlyFilling the kettle up with as much water as needed could save virtually £7 in energy bills a year and virtually £45m for the UK.6. Shower SmarterSpending one minute less in the shower each day could save as much as £10 off energy bills each year. If you have a water meter this will save a remoter £12 off yearly water and sewerage bills. Smart Meter Rollout.What is the national smart meter rollout?By the end of 2020, virtually 53 million smart meters will be fitted in increasingly than 30 million premises (households and businesses) wideness Wales, Scotland and England. The programme is once underway. We're in the first stages and nearly five million smart meters have once been installed wideness Great Britain. This is the biggest national infrastructure project in our lifetimes and it will enable a increasingly energy efficient system for Great Britain.How can I get a smart meter? We’re all entitled to a smart meter and your energy supplier will contact you between now and 2020 to unify your installation at no uneaten cost.Some of us will have to wait longer than others to get our meter, but you can ask your energy supplier directly to see if you can have yours fitted now. How soon you can get your meter depends on your energy supplier, where you live and what kind of home you live in.There are three straightforward steps to getting a smart meter installed:Ask your supplier - we'll all be offered a smart meter by 2020. Contact yours directly to see if you can get a smart meter fitted now.You fix a time and day for your supplier to come and install your smart meter (either you, or if you can't be there yourself, a nominated, responsible sultana will need to be present during installation).Your supplier fits the meter and shows you how to use the in-home display.How does a smart meter work?Smart meters measure how much gas and electricity you’re using, as well as what it’s costing you, and exhibit this on a handy in-home display.They moreover send will-less meter readings to your energy supplier at least once a month, so you will receive accurate, not unscientific bills!Supported by Copyright © 2015 CitizensTranslatingManchester. 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