Creating warmer, healthier, and more sustainable communities is one of our core strategies for addressing the climate crisis and helping our customers manage rising energy costs. We’re improving existing homes with better insulation, low-carbon heating, renewable energy technologies and ventilation upgrades through large-scale energy efficiency and decarbonisation programmes. These improvements reduce carbon emissions, improve comfort and support the UK’s transition to net zero.
Our progress so far
Abri has secured over £45 million in government funding from housing decarbonisation programmes, including more than £32 million from Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund Wave 3. This investment will improve over 5,000 homes, including 3,800 homes within the next three years.
Abri is one of the founding members of the Greener Futures Partnership, a collaboration of like-minded housing associations leading the way to improve the energy efficiency and sustainability of homes across the country. Through this partnership, Abri has also helped secure significant collaborative funding to accelerate energy efficiency measures across the housing sector.
How we're improving homes
Our energy efficiency programmes assess the entire house to get a complete picture, helping us identify which combination of improvements are most effective. Measures include loft, cavity wall and external wall insulation, high-performance windows and doors, solar panels, air source heat pumps, improved ventilation and heating controls. By tailoring improvements to each home, we can maximise energy performance and long term benefits for the customer.
A data led approach
Our energy efficiency programmes are backed by detailed property data and technical assessments. Understanding how homes perform empowers us to make improvements where it will have the greatest impact. We combine this data with the customer’s experience with their own home to ensure improvements are evidence-based and designed around lived experiences.
Working in partnership
Collaboration is essential to delivering energy efficiency at scale. Through the Greener Futures Partnership, Abri works alongside other leading housing associations to share expertise, develop innovative service and create new, efficient methods of sustainability that accelerate decarbonisation. Together, the partnership has delivered upgrades including insulation, solar panels, air source heat pumps and ventilation improvements to thousands of homes.
Supporting greener communities
Making homes more energy efficient is more than improving buildings. It helps towards rising energy costs for customers, supports green jobs and skills, reduces carbon emissions and strengthens communities with warmer, better homes. By investing in existing homes today, we are helping ensure homes remain fit for the future while supporting broader environmental and social outcomes.
- £45m government funding secured
- 5,000 homes to be improved through funded programmes
- £32m secured through Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund Wave 3
- 3,800 homes to benefit over the next three years
- Founding member of the Greener Futures Partnership
