"Promoting the better use and supply
                  of energy to counter climate change"

CAT is an education and visitor centre which demonstrates practical solutions for sustainability, covering all aspects of green living: environmental building, eco-sanitation, woodland management, renewable energy, energy efficiency and organic growing.

CAT provides a range of postgraduate degrees, runs residential and one-day courses for schools, colleges, the general public and building trades, provides outreach work including teacher training.  Facilities include the visitor centre, eco-shop, vegetarian restaurant and an expansive range of renewable energy systems.

CAT is concerned with the search for globally sustainable, whole and ecologically sound technologies and ways of life.  Within this search CAT explores and demonstrates a wide range of alternatives, communicating to other people the options for them to achieve positive change in their own lives.

CSE is a charitable business, established in 1979, with the mission to advance sustainable energy policy and practice. Their vision is of a world where sustainability is second nature, carbon emissions have been cut to safe levels and fuel poverty has been replaced by energy justice.  CSE brings together an in-depth understanding of national energy policy with strong practical experience of delivering local and regional initiatives. 
They achieve their mission by:

• delivering effective projects which enable individuals, communities and organisations to make their energy supply and use more sustainable;
• empowering and supporting effective action by others in their organisations and communities across the UK, and;
• using experience and evidence to shape local, regional and national policy through expert analysis and research.

Changeworks exists to improve quality of life and to protect the environment.  They are a Scottish charity with commercial trading subsidiaries.
Working with passion, integrity and in collaboration to develop and deliver innovative projects and businesses that inspire and empower people and communities to make a difference.
By providing people with the information they need to make choices that lessen their impact on the environment, Changeworks help them to lead safer, healthier, more fulfilled lives. By alleviating poverty and disadvantage they help to foster social justice and equality of opportunity.  By using the earth’s natural resources efficiently they help to protect the rich and diverse planet that is our home and to ensure that those resources are available for everyone, now and in the future.

CEP is an award-winning charity and company limited by guarantee, incorporated in April 1998.  CEP works at a local delivery level to tackle climate change, promote sustainable energy and reduce fuel poverty.  They operate mainly within Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, occasionally in other parts of the South West Region.
Domestic Energy initiatives encourage individual families to access grants to improve the Energy Efficiency of their homes.  Renewable Energy initiatives support community groups seeking funding for renewable technologies.  CEP is also working to promote community ownership of Renewable Energy schemes.

The Energy Agency is a charitable organisation, established in 1999 and operates throughout Scotland although mainly South West Scotland. It provides free, impartial, expert advice to householders, businesses and communities covering energy efficiency, renewable energy and sustainable issues.

The Agency has developed and delivered a large number of innovative projects, many of which have won national and international awards. Since the year 2000, the Energy Agency has delivered education lessons linked to the 5–14 National Curriculum, to over 40,000 students. Working in partnership with a wide range of European, national and local organisations contributes to the success of its activities.

Warm Homes Energy Agency, a trading company owned by the Energy Agency, manages grant and loan schemes and the referral mechanisms for customers, utility companies and installers.

Groundwork focuses on communities facing serious disadvantage. Aiming to develop and deliver programmes that practically address environmental, economic and social issues. Groundwork delivers thousands of projects in neighbourhoods damaged by decline and neglect.
These areas are characterised by high unemployment and crime levels, poor public health, run-down housing and public spaces, waste ground and struggling businesses. They all aim to improve things in three ways:

• for people – creating opportunities for people to learn new skills and take local action
• for places - creating better, safer and healthier neighbourhoods
• for prosperity - helping businesses and individuals fulfil their potential.

This includes community behaviour change and domestically targeted home energy advice programmes, including the “Green Doctor”, which has recently received Audit Commission recognition for its effectiveness and positive impact.

MEA is an independent climate change social enterprise operating across the Midlands. Its purpose is to deliver outcomes addressing human induced climate change, energy security and peak oil, with objectives focused on protecting the environment, delivering sustainable development education and alleviation of poverty.
MEA's mission is to be the 'do tank' (not a 'think tank') which delivers low carbon communities, households and organisations via demonstration, inspiration and education. MEA majors on developing and delivering creative, practical and effective products and services to enable the rapid uptake of sustainable energy measures and climate change solutions.

NEA develops and promotes energy efficiency services to tackle the heating and insulation problems of low-income households.  Working in partnership with central and local government; with fuel utilities, housing providers and health services; and with consumer organisations, NEA aims to eradicate fuel poverty and campaigns for greater investment in energy efficiency to help those who are poor or vulnerable.
NEA has its headquarters in Newcastle upon Tyne and currently operates 20 demonstration projects at 10 offices in England and Wales. NEA has a separate office in Belfast which works throughout Northern Ireland and has two bases in Wales. NEA works closely with its sister organisation Energy Action Scotland on fuel poverty in Scotland. 

NEF is a registered charity established as one of the UK’s leading independent authorities in the fields of renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Our consultants are drawn from a wide range of backgrounds offering expertise in:

• Energy efficiency
• The technological, social and economic issues relating to small and large scale applications of renewable energy
• Community based energy projects
• The development of strategy for local authorities, county councils and other public sector organisations

NEF provides secretariat services to the the Ground Source Heat Pump Association and the Green Energy Scheme and is the delivery partner for the Carbon Trust Standard.

SWEA is a SAVE regional energy agency. It was established as an independent not-for-profit company. SWEA promotes sustainable energy and affordable warmth through partnership, awareness-raising, innovation and strategic action. They aim to help everyone in the communities that they serve to enjoy the benefits that energy can bring without reducing the ability of future generations to do the same.
SWEA works from the strategic level through to practical action on the ground, and has developed a portfolio of activities in energy efficiency, renewable energy and sustainable transport.  Based in Gloucestershire, they are active in South West England and Wales, with a particular focus and presence in Gloucestershire, South Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, and Powys.

The EcoCentre is a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee.
It was established in 1980 by a local group of volunteers who wanted to campaign positively on the issues of energy saving, renewable energy generation, increasing reliance on fossil fuels and its contribution to acid rain and global warming. 
The four main planks of WWEC’s work are:

• energy efficiency
• renewable energy
• environmental education – climate change and sustainability
• fuel poverty

In each of these areas the organisation works with government, statutory authorities, schools, communities and other third sector bodies to deliver its objectives. The audience for this work ranges from school-age children, teachers, householders, community groups, planners, housing officers and other local authority staff, installers, utility companies, health boards and government.