The ScottishPower Energy People Trust has awarded £7,737,433 to 152 projects helping 830,671 people in 629,691 households through community projects designed to reduce fuel poverty

What we do

The ScottishPower Energy People Trust funds not-for-profit groups that help people whose lives are affected by fuel poverty.
 
Since our formation in November 2005 we have provided £7.7 million to programmes run by grass roots organisations that help people who are struggling to pay their energy bills due to low incomes, poor housing or ill-health.
 
We are funded by ScottishPower and voluntary donations from independent supporters.
 
Decisions to award funding are made independently of ScottishPower by an experienced Board of Trustees who have a special interest in fuel poverty. They include representatives from Energy Action Scotland and National Energy Action.

The ScottishPower Energy People Trust is an independent charity established to help end fuel poverty in Britain, Charity No. SC036980. Registered address: 1 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow, G2 8SP.

Types of Funding

Income Maximisation

Helping households that aren't claiming benefits to which they're entitled; or are not eligible for grants because they don't receive the appropriate benefit.

Crisis Funding

Projects that help the urgent essential needs of people suffering from fuel poverty.

Research

Funding projects that help people in fuel poverty to achieve affordable warmth.

Energy Efficiency

Rushmoor Healthy Living (RHL) - Fighting Fuel Poverty

More than 7,000 people in Aldershot, Farnborough and surrounding communities will be helped out of fuel poverty through a two-year project run by Rushmoor Healthy Living. With the help of a £75,185 grant from the ScottishPower Energy People Trust, the Fighting Fuel Poverty project is funding a full-time Energy Bill Advisor to help vulnerable families who are at risk of fuel poverty. Working from community venues, the Energy Bill Advisor will hold one-to-one energy advice surgeries to help people make their homes mo...

The Princess Royal Trust - Eliminating Poverty Project

Carers of all ages who look after someone who is ill, frail or disabled, without payment – can face financial difficulties and end up living in fuel poverty. So the success of a project that has been lending a helping hand to this very special group of people has been warmly welcomed by the ScottishPower Energy People Trust. The Princess Royal Trust, East Ayrshire Carers’ Centre, which received £80,000 from the Trust to fund a two-year project, has successfully sourced £350,000 worth of unclaimed benefits for its ca...

Project Counter Attack

More than 800 households in the Borough of Blackpool have been helped out of fuel poverty in the first two years of a three-year project run by Blackpool Council Primary Care Affordable Warmth Partnership. The Affordable Warmth Partnership, whose key partners include Blackpool Council and Blackpool Primary Care Trust, secured a grant of £90,000 from the ScottishPower Energy People Trust in 2006 – and set out to discover why vulnerable households in the area were not accessing benefits and grants that could help them ac...

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Read our Annual Report 2008 and other documents to check out our performance and progress.