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County Durham Healthy Homes Partnership Event 7th November 2012

The County Durham Healthy Homes Partnership will be holding its third annual stakeholder event, focusing on the alleviation of fuel poverty and cold-related ill health. The event is in early development and this is an opportunity to ‘save the date’ … Continue reading

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To Infi-Knit-y and beyond!

In December 2010, we posted about Macmillan Cancer Care’s ‘Infi-Knit’ Campaign. You can read our original article about it here. The campaign involved asking the public to contribute their suggestions of how to keep warm. For each suggestion, a part … Continue reading

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How to identify Fuel Poverty

We have added a new page to the Partners section of this site to give a detailed explanation of what Fuel Poverty is, and why it is important that we try to reduce it. You can find the new page … Continue reading

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Homeless Action Partnership Newsletter

We are pleased to announce that we have been featured in the Spring 2011 edition of Durham County Council’s Homeless Action Partnership Newsletter. We gave them a brief explanation of who we are at CDHHP, how Hotspots works, and how … Continue reading

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County Durham Healthy Homes Partnership Event 10 March 2011

On March 10th 2011, we ran a County Durham Healthy Homes Partnership event at the Glebe Centre in Murton for approximitely 90 delegates. There were 7 presentations relating to health and energy, along with delegate packs, tea and coffee, and … Continue reading

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Welcome

The County Durham Healthy Homes Partnership is a strategic partnership concerned with reducing fuel poverty and encouraging people to keep warm and keep healthy, rather than suffering from the effects of the cold. We also offer fire safety and home … Continue reading

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Event Rescheduled – Excess Winter Deaths: Facing Public Health Challenges Together

On Thursday 10th March, we are holding a County Durham Healthy Homes Partnership Event entitled: ‘Excess Winter Deaths: Facing Public Health Challenges Together.’ The aim of the event is to bring partners together to celebrate achievements made over the last … Continue reading

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Big Knit is a Big Hit!

In December, we put a post up about Age UK’s scheme, ‘The Big Knit,’ where they asked knitters to make woolen hats to be sold on the top of Innocent Smoothie bottles to raise money for the charity. Age Uk … Continue reading

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Heat or Eat?

Whether someone is able to keep warm in winter is often as much a question of health as it is wealth. Those most vulnerable to the cold include: older people, disabled people and those living with serious illnesses, such as … Continue reading

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The Cost of Keeping Warm

Does Debt Breed Fuel Poverty? Without a doubt, one of the biggest factors affecting whether people are able to keep warm in the winter is cost. There are many people who simply can’t afford to pay the high prices of … Continue reading

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