As members of REScoop, the month of May saw Lorenza Casini, Energy Commons team lead, and Jonathan Atkinson, Retrofit team lead, together with colleagues from People Powered Retrofit, head to the 2025 European Energy Communities Forum. It took place in Kraków, Poland, on 20—22 May 2025, during Poland’s six-month Presidency of the European Council, and … Read more
Carbon Co-op’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) is taking place this Wednesday 23rd April at the Anthony Burgess Foundation in central Manchester. If you want to attend you can book a free place here. AGMs can be full of jargon, so this article explains what will happen at the event and how you can be involved. … Read more
Carbon Co-op’s area-based retrofit project is upgrading a group of homes in Levenshulme, South Manchester, aiming to improve energy efficiency, keep bills low and reduce carbon emissions. The key contractor for the scheme, Stockport-based B4Box, are not only a contractor but also a training provider, who are using the experience of retrofitting traditional Victorian terraced … Read more
Over the last year we’ve been increasingly asked about grant funded programmes for retrofit. Do we recommend them? Do we refer people into them? So we’ve done a lot of thinking about what our position is, because we want to provide clarity to our staff and the households we talk to. This blog post sets … Read more
On a sunny Monday lunchtime, the Carbon Co-op team took a stroll around the streets of Levenshulme to check in on our Area-Based Retrofit Scheme—an exciting project that’s transforming homes for a more sustainable and just future. During our walk, we had the chance to chat with key members of the project team, including Hannah … Read more
Introduction The pilot Area-Based Retrofit scheme in Levenshulme, South Manchester has been designed to trial the benefits of a localised approach to retrofit works. The idea is to enable multiple nearby properties of the same type to ‘retrofit’ their homes, which means making domestic upgrades and installations that improve the energy efficiency of a property. … Read more