About HEAT
 

HEAT is an AfSL volunteer group promoting energy awareness in Hulme.

HEAT aims to:

• Reduce energy consumption in Hulme.
• Raise awareness of sustainable energy use.
• Source funding for energy saving campaigns.
• Help local people to create local solutions.
• Enhance local skills and involvement. 

HEAT was Regional Winner in Feb’s NEA/Defra Awards Scheme and was awarded £2000 which has been used to produce a newsletter delivered to Hulme residents and will also be used to set up a database logging local interest in community energy saving schemes. 

Get involved: 

• Project planning
• Press & Publicity.
• Schools Work.
• Event Management.
• Funding & Sponsorship and more …

Contact [email protected]

HEAT Projects

-          Loreto College – Students worked with HEAT in an Energy Awareness Campaign. They will road show the campaign in Hulme schools next year.

-          Hornchurch Towerblock – Residents plan to make it “…an exemplar of environmental friendliness and sustainable living, in a 1960's building.” including an Energy Campaign run with HEAT.

-          Zion Community Health Centre – HEAT volunteers will assist Zion service-users to save energy through action campaigns on ‘energy reduction at work and home’.

-          Metropolitan University – HEAT surveyed MMU Hulme Halls of Residence and ran Energy Workshops with MMU House Staff. Extra funding could develop the campaign next year.

-          Hulme Solar Co-op Study - Urbed, AfSL and UHC have applied for a grant to research benefits of a Solar Co-op in Hulme. If successful, HEAT will funded to run linked outreach work.

Interested in these projects? Contact [email protected].

Up and coming HEAT events

Action for Sustainable Living, St Wilfrid's Enterprise Centre, Royce Road, Hulme, , M15 5BJ.

Email: [email protected] Tel: 0845 634 4510 Fax: 0870 167 4655

Page last modified: 16 June 2006