Between 2024 and 2025, Energise Manchester teamed up with Longsight’s Queen Bee group to deliver a series of practical energy advice workshops — designed with the community, for the community. The Queen Bee group is a women-only group based at Northmoor Community Centre, where women from mainly South Asian backgrounds meet regularly to share food, … Read more
As the end of the first winter of activities comes to a close, the Energise Manchester team has taken some time to reflect on our experiences. We’ve found that our thinking around inclusive language has evolved, shaped by the project team’s insights. In this blog, we share an overview of our journey and the changes … Read more
A guest post by Sandy Rushton, People Powered Retrofit. Originally featured on Medium. As the delivery of the Energise Manchester project got underway, we needed to collectively define our audiences for the various project interventions. A group from the project teams working on the ‘Warm for Winter’ activities met for an online Assumption Mapping workshop to … Read more
A guest post by Sandy Rushton, People Powered Retrofit. Originally featured on Medium. On the Energise Manchester project, we’re asking a number of different questions about behaviour change and energy advice: These questions, alongside requirements from our funders, result in a complex and diverse needs for evaluation. Working with Shortwork to evaluate behaviour change Shortwork is … Read more
A guest post by Sandy Rushton, People Powered Retrofit. Originally featured on Medium. On November 2, 2023, the Energise Manchester team took part in a knowledge sharing session with Ellie Kuitunen. Ellie is an energy consultant who has worked at Manchester City Council, focusing on the adoption of large-scale retrofit. She recently completed an MSc in … Read more
A guest post by Sandy Rushton, People Powered Retrofit. Originally featured on Medium. On October 25th, 2023, the Energise Manchester project team met to carry out an Intervention Mapping workshop. The workshop was facilitated by Chandni Patel and Val Mitchell from Snook, with support from me and Lorenza Casini. This was one of the first project-wide … Read more