Free Home Insulation for over 70s in Rhondda Cynon Taf via Green Drinks Rhondda Cynon Taff » Green Drinks Rhondda Cynon Taff
Free insulation is being offered to those over the age of 70 in Rhondda Cynon Taff in a bid to reduce the cost of energy bills and also protect the environment.
Rhondda Cynon Taf Council’s specialist Home Energy Officer is promoting the initiative, which is open to homeowners or tenants who have someone over the age of 70 resident in their home.
On offer regardless of income, insulation is the easiest way to make your home warmer in summer and cooler in summer.
As energy bills continue to rise, the focus of the Home Energy Officer is to ensure residents have access to schemes that help reduce their fuel bills to heat their homes affordably while also protecting the environment by reducing fuel consumption.
Free insulation is still offered, free of charge, to those in receipt of...
More support for advocacy projects for elderly people is needed in Wales according to an Age Concern report launched by Plaid Assembly Member Leanne Wood.
A survey by the charity found that only half of Welsh organisations working with older people provide an advocacy service. About a third of these will have to stop or operate on reduced funding over the next 12 months.
Speaking at the launch in the Senedd, Plaid’s Leanne Wood AM commented:
“It gives me great pleasure to speak at this launch. The issues raised in this report are serious. If good quality advocacy services are not available, then people suffer. I know that only too well from my experience of working for women’s aid. Not everyone needs advocacy services - the important thing is that people know that there...