Helping local businesses and residents save energy and money

As we regularly do, we want to highlight the help available to local residents and businesses to enable them to save energy and money:

Local residents

This year Reigate and Banstead Borough Council will be bolstering its usual awareness raising work using a £20,000 grant from the Department of Health via the Surrey Healthy Homes Partnership.

This money will be used to work with the charity Action Surrey to raise awareness amongst residents of the options available, which include free cavity wall and loft insulation.

For more information please visit www.actionsurrey.org.

Local businesses

Are you involved in a local business and interested in saving energy and money? There are a number of ways you can do this - sign up to a local free event to find out more and meet relevant experts.

Energy efficiency breakfast

The Council is running a free energy efficiency breakfast in partnership with the Carbon Trust and Surrey Chambers of Commerce.

When: Thursday 9 February, 7.30am to 10.30am

Where: Hartsfield Manor, Sandy Lane, Betchworth, RH3 7AA

The event will allow you to:

• manage and monitor your organisation’s energy use
• identify and implement key energy reduction opportunities
• conduct a walk around survey to identify further opportunities
• implement actions identified within the session
• have a one-to-one consultation with our expert trainer
• network with other like-minded businesses in your area.

Free utility management workshop

Following on from the breakfast event, a free day-long workshop has been organised to help businesses decode their utility bills and find areas for savings. The day offers practical advice for reducing energy and water consumption as well as minimising waste. This event is supported by the UTILISE programme.

When: Wednesday 29 February, 9.30am to 4.30pm.

Where: Harlequin Theatre & Cinema, Warwick Quadrant, Redhill, RH1 1NN

To book your place for these events, visit the Council’s Free energy management training for businesses page.

Part of the overall strategy

Cllr Rois Amiah, Conservative Councillor for Redhill East, said:

As a local businessman myself I recommend that businesses take up these opportunities, which really can help you save energy and money.

“As a Council we have implemented lots of changes in recent years to improve our own energy efficiency, and the cash savings this has produced have helped us freeze Council tax as well.”

To find out more about the Council’s energy strategy, visit our Sustainable Energy Strategy page.