Are you eligible for funding to improve your home?

Funding is available to residents in all circumstances to improve your home's energy efficiency.

Energy Company Obligation (ECO) and ECO Flex

ECO is the Government's main energy efficiency grant funding programme for privately owned and rented UK households.

You might be able to get help for energy-saving improvements to your home if you either:

claim certain benefits and live in private housing (for example you own your home or rent from a private landlord)
live in social housing

You may get help with the cost of:

insulation work, for example to your loft or cavity walls
replacing or repairing your boiler - or other upgrades to your heating.

Find out more: Energy Company Obligation (ECO) and ECO Flex

Great British Insulation Scheme

The Great British Insulation Scheme is a new government energy efficiency scheme. It is designed to deliver improvements to the least energy-efficient homes in Great Britain to tackle fuel poverty and help reduce energy bills.

The scheme complements the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) scheme, yet unlike ECO's 'whole house' approach, this scheme will mostly deliver single insulation measures.

As well as supporting low-income and vulnerable households, it is also available to those living in homes with an Energy Performance Certificate rating of D-G, and within Council Tax bands A-D in England and A-E in Scotland and Wales.

You can be a homeowner, landlord or tenant (either renting privately or from a housing association). If you're a tenant, speak to your landlord before you apply. You'll need their permission before any insulation can be installed.

Find out more: Great British Insulation Scheme - GOV.UK

For further details, please see the council's Statement of Intent (SOI) ECO4 and Great British Insulation Scheme Flexible Eligibility Statement of Intent. Version 1.5

Boiler Upgrade Scheme

Through the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, you could get a grant to cover part of the cost of replacing fossil fuel heating systems with a heat pump or biomass boiler.

You can get one grant per property. Current grants are available for:

£7,500 towards an air source heat pump
£7,500 towards a ground source heat pump (including water source heat pumps and those on shared ground loops)
£5,000 towards a biomass boiler

Fossil fuel heating systems include oil, gas, electric or LPG (liquefied petroleum gas).

Check your eligibility and find out how to apply for the grant here: Boiler Upgrade Scheme - GOV.UK

Warm Homes Local Grant

For more information about the Governments Warm Homes Local Grant programme and to register your interest please see Apply for the Warm Homes: Local Grant to improve a home - GOV.UK

Please note that eligibility for the Warm Homes Local Grant programme is set by Government and does not, under any circumstances, include funding to replace broken or old and inefficient gas boilers.

For more information, advice and support about a broad range of energy related matters including potential support for gas boilers please see Energy advice and support - Sunderland City Council or contact Green Doctor, helping UK residents stay warm, stay well, and save energy. - Groundwork