EAGA Partnership Charitable Trust

The aim of the trust is the relief of fuel poverty and the preservation and protection of health by the promotion of the efficient use of energy, through the provision of grant funding to appropriate organisations and researchers.

The trust currently funds work within the grant programme Understanding and Combating Fuel Poverty. It provides financial support for work that contributes to combating fuel poverty and ensuring energy services are fair and accessible for all groups in society. Work for which funding is sought should consist of one or more of the following elements: 

·         Rigorous academic or policy-related research;

·         robustly evaluated action projects that can offer new models for use on a wider scale;

·         wider promotion of good practice (for example through toolkits and workshops).

Although the trust cannot support physical energy efficiency measures, it does support evaluation and promotion of targeted energy efficiency strategies. The trust is keen to support work that promotes a better understanding of the links between fuel poverty and other financial and social exclusion agendas at the national, devolved and local levels.

The trust currently has the following grant priority areas: 

·         fuel poverty and disability;

·         fuel poverty and young children;

·         the links between fuel poverty and migrant communities;

·         real and perceived barriers to the take-up of assistance;

·         fuel poverty and the climate change agenda; and

·         fuel poverty definition and target.

Further details are available from www.eagacharitabletrust.org

(Source: WCVA)