Join the Alwoodley Low-Carbon Homes Club!
In Alwoodley, our homes are responsible for 27% of our carbon footprint, each of us emitting an averaging 3.4 t CO2e from our home energy use per year. This is among the highest emission rates from homes in the city. Working together to reduce these emissions can make a meaningful difference to the city's drive to zero carbon. Are you interested in doing what you can to reduce the carbon footprint of your home? Are you keen to undertake eco-positive home refurbishment, and to be able to have a community of like-minded Alwoodley residents to support your journey?
Join the Alwoodley Low-Carbon Homes Club!
It's a simple model:
Make a pledge to make at least one change to your home to reduce your use of carbon in your home over the next twelve months (large or small changes all count!).
Click here to pledge and join the club!
Access your FREE Eco-home refurbishment assessment. Upon making your pledge, we'll send you a link to register for a FREE home assessment (Value: £125 + VAT) to guide you on what changes you can make, in what order, to save carbon and money. The suggestions range from quick wins to larger investments. Note, we have secured 20 free assessments, but requests must be submitted by April.
Share your assessments with the Alwoodley 2030 team, who will remove any personal identifying info, and share with people with similar homes. That way, many people across the ward can benefit from the information.
Take part in local conversations and events to learn about and support each other to take steps to reduce carbon emissions from your home.
Take at least one action and report back to Alwoodley 2030 so we can calculate our collective carbon Reduction impact!
We invite you to take a look at the data for carbon emissions in Alwoodley v other wards.
Upcoming Club Events and Activities (Final details and Dates TBD)
March: Launch Low-Carbon Homes Club! We hope that up to 20 people will make a pledge and access the free HERO assessment, and will engage as a support network to reduce the carbon footprint of our homes.
1st May. Buckstones Eco-Refurbishment Neighbour to Neighbour Info Share. Local resident, Sarann, has had a home assessment and has undertaken work to reduce her home's carbon footprint. At this informal gathering, Sarann will share what she learned from the report and what home improvements she had done (including advice on materials and tradespeople). This will be particularly useful for people who live in semis in the Buckstones area (or similar housing stock elsewhere). We'll also share info on locan and national initiatives to help you make these changes to your home.
In addition to these, we will be setting up a number of opportunities over the year for people to come together and talk to each other and learn from others who have done considerable work in this field. We will post details of our first meeting in the near future.
Our Growing Map of Low Carbon Homes Club Members (Post Code Only - We Won't Publish Exact Location)