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If your home isn’t energy efficient, it is costing you money and wasting energy. As a Local Energy Authority, Boston Borough Council gives free advice and information about a range of cost effective ways to reduce domestic energy usage.  The Home Energy Lincs Partnership HELP scheme offers reduced price cavity wall and loft insultation to residents of Lincolnshire.  You may also be eligible to have the works carried out free of charge if you are in receipt of certain benefits.  Further information is available via the above HELP link, or telephone 0800 512012 and Quote "HELP".  For other energy saving advise, we have a range of leaflets including:

30 top tips for energy saving
Home energy Quiz
Global Warming
Avoiding Damp and Mould Growth
How to lower your fuel bills

These checks will provide you with a report as to the most effective ways to improve the energy efficiency of your home.

You can complete a Home Energy Check on-line by clicking this link to the form on the Energy Saving Trust website or contact the Council by telephone on the number above and we will send you a questionnaire.

For more information on energy efficiency visit the Energy Saving web-site -

www.saveenergy.co.uk

If you own your own home or privately rent and receive income or disability related benefit, you could have a range of insulation and heating improvements installed free. To find out more, visit the Warm-front web-site on the link below:

http://www.warmfront.co.uk/

Use the following link for details of a heating rebate scheme for ALL older people. Funds have been made available to help homeowners and private tenants who are aged 60 or over to make their homes warmer. The Warm Front £300 Heating Rebate can be used by householders who are not in receipt of a Warm Front qualifying benefit and who have either no heating system or one which is inoperable.

http://www.warmfront.co.uk/heating-rebate-scheme.htm

Lincolnshire Energy Advice Centre

The Lincolnshire Energy Efficiency Advice Centre (LEEAC) provides free, expert, local and impartial advice to households throughout Lincolnshire. The Centre has a team of expert energy advisors offering a range of services to help consumers save money, energy and the environment. Since its conception the Advice centre has helped over 42,000 households.

Link to local energy saving advice centre page on Energy Saving Trust website

For further information call freephone 0800 512012 between 9.00am and 5.00pm Monday to Friday.