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Hotspots Newsletter Winter Edition

We have just uploaded the latest edition of our website. To read it, visit the Hotspots Newsletter section of this website or click here: Hotspots Newsletter Issue 4 winter 2011. //

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Warm Front Scheme Eligibility Criteria Changes

Warm Front are a government funded scheme that provides grants to make your home warmer, healthier and more energy efficient. They are one of the schemes that we sometimes pass clients on to when they are referred to us via … Continue reading

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Dignity Newsletter

We recently produced a short article for the February 2011 edition of the Dignity Newsletter on how the County Durham Healthy Homes Partnership and Hotspots promote maintaining dignity for older people. Alternatively, you can download the whole newsletter here: Dignity … 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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