Two Rivers Housing lands £620,000 grant to retrofit 237 homes
What's the deal? Two Rivers HousingDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → has secured a £623,000 grant from Wave 3 of the UK government's Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund. The money will fund energy-efficiency work — solar panels, heat pumps, and insulation — across 237 tenants' homes this year.
Why now? The housing association is racing to bring all its homes up to EPC C or above by 2030. It has already completed energy improvements in more than 600 homes since 2021.
What's the endgame? The upgrades aim to make homes warmer in winter, cut energy use, and tackle fuel poverty. Two Rivers Housing has partnered with Severn Wye Energy AgencyDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a Gloucester-based sustainability charity, to deliver PAS 2035 Retrofit Coordination, retrofit assessments, technical design, and quality assurance. Severn Wye won the four-year contract after a tender earlier this year.
The details: Two Rivers Housing applied in a joint bid with Stroud District CouncilDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, Gloucestershire City HomesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, and Cheltenham Borough CouncilDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →.
"Securing this additional government funding means we can reach even more homes, making energy-saving improvements sooner and helping more families," said Sam Batt, decarbonisation manager at Two Rivers Housing.
The signal: The grant sits in the modest tier of publicly disclosed funding rounds, but it reflects a wider push to retrofit Britain's social housing stock and cut household energy bills as fuel poverty pressures persist.
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