Warmer homes and cheaper bills? It's possible!

Have you turned on your heating yet this year? I’ve definitely noticed the temperature drop in the last few days, and I reached for the thermostat for the first time this weekend.

This week, the price cap on our energy bills was lifted, and average heating costs will shoot up by 10%. At a stroke, this plunged another 700,000 households into fuel poverty. 

For people living in the 6 million households now facing energy poverty, and for all the pensioners who won’t get their winter fuel allowance this year, facing winter is particularly worrying.

Too many of us live in cold, draughty, damp homes, and lifting the price cap will hit the poorest households hardest this winter.

We have a solution

Soaring energy bills over the last few years has been caused by  spikes in dirty, dangerous fossil fuels like gas. At Possible, we’re campaigning to help the UK get off gas for good with clean, affordable energy and heating, and well-insulated homes. This would bring down bills, slash emissions and ensure everyone lives in warm, comfortable homes that can face every winter to come.

Imagine it. Community by community, street by street, a programme to insulate homes, swap gas boilers for heat pumps, build local renewables, and keep us all warm without heating up the planet. 

If we get this right, we’d look back in a few decades and wonder why we ever put up with people shivering in poverty, children coughing in damp, mouldy bedrooms, and handing over so much of our wage packets to corporations making billions in profits while cooking the planet.

We know we can do this.

With a new government in power, we have a huge opportunity to win a revolution in clean heat, and so many other climate solutions.

We’ve already won big by lifting the ban on onshore wind, and we have so much to do. But, as a registered charity, we rely on donations to carry out this vital work.

Would you consider chipping in a few pounds, before it gets too cold? Together, we can work towards a future where everyone has a warm home, a better life and a safer climate.