Healthy Homes, Healthy Householders Webinar

In the coming months hot topics featured will include woodburning stoves, doors and windows, and air tightness for better energy efficiency.

The first webinar is Healthy Homes, Healthy Householders, on Wednesday 28^th June in the usual lunchtime slot 1 – 2.30pm.

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Anyone struggling to keep up with their energy bills or maintain a comfortable temperature indoors knows all too well the stress and worry which comes with high bills – but there are also serious physical and mental health conditions which can be caused, or made worse, by living in a cold home.

Join Marches Energy Agency (MEA) as they explore the links between health and cold homes, and how we can stay warm and well at home.

Project Managers Phil Newcombe and Claire Woolley will explore:

> How struggling to stay warm can affect our health

> How to spot warning signs in your own home

> What causes issues like damp and mould

> How retrofit can make our homes safer, healthier places to live and thrive

You’ll be able to ask any questions at the end in the Q&A session.

Claire Woolley Area Lead, Marches Energy Agency

Claire runs Healthy Homes Shropshire, a project which provides in-depth support to those struggling with health and cold homes. A large part of this project involves building networks and referral routes with health and wellbeing bodies to make sure local people receive effective, joined-up support.

Phil Newcombe Project Manager, Marches Energy Agency

Phil Joined MEA in 2009. His work involves post-occupancy evaluation of housing performance, carbon audits for organisations such as Housing Associations and Councils, community building energy efficiency surveys, renewable energy feasibility and funding studies.

In the past he has worked as a town planning enforcement officer; house renovator; in mental health support projects with adolescents, schizophrenic men, bereavement counselling; in a consultancy facilitating community involvement in regeneration programmes.