Crisis Resilience Funding support

Turning Crisis Resilience Funding into lasting resilience

Every winter, we know local councils face the same challenge. How best to support households in crisis due to cold weather, with budgets under increasing pressure and demand for resources like the Crisis Resilience Fund (CRF) growing?

AgilityEco are specialists in helping households most at risk of fuel poverty. We're experienced partners in delivering compliant, high-quality energy efficiency programmes and providing tailored support to local communities across the UK.

By investing a portion of CRF funding into targeted energy efficiency improvements, you can help vulnerable households lower their energy costs, improve health and wellbeing and reduce future demand on your local welfare services – for the long term.

The cold weather challenge for local authorities

Many households who need crisis support live in homes that are:

• Expensive to heat and poorly insulated
• Cold and damp
• Prone to mould and condensation
• Occupied by vulnerable residents (older people, families with young children and people with long-term health conditions)

Emergency fuel payments may keep the heating on for a few days or weeks, but once that support ends, households often return to crisis. This leads to a cycle of repeat applications for financial help, without changing the circumstances causing crisis in the first place.

We help you make better use of crisis funding

Energy efficiency improvements help create long-term financial resilience – a key aim of the Crisis Resilience Fund. Because reducing the amount of daily energy a home requires reduces its residents’ need for future crisis support. We deliver home improvement measures including:

• Loft and cavity wall insulation
• Draughtproofing
• Heating controls
• Ventilation improvements
• Minor heating upgrades
• Advice and resident support

How energy efficiency improvements help local authorities

Fewer repeat applications for crisis funding

Households whose energy bills are permanently reduced due to energy efficiency upgrades are less likely to need repeat urgent assistance – leaving crisis budgets for those facing genuine emergencies.

Greater value for public money

Energy efficiency improvements keep delivering cost savings for 15 to 40 years after being fitted, rather than the few weeks’ relief provided by a one-off payment.

Better resident health and wellbeing

Warmer, drier homes reduce pressure on wider public services, including social care and the NHS.

• Fewer cold-related illnesses, GP appointments and hospital admissions
• Less damp and mould in homes
• Better mental wellbeing
• Improved educational outcomes for children
• Greater independence for older residents

Support for local priorities

This approach supports many local authority objectives, including:

• Tackle fuel poverty and support vulnerable residents
• Prevent homelessness
• Reduce health inequalities
• Improve housing quality
• Climate and Net Zero ambitions
• Social value commitments

Why partner with us?

AgilityEco are specialists in helping households who are most at risk of fuel poverty.

We’re experienced partners, used to managing funding and delivering compliant, high-quality energy efficiency improvement programmes quickly and effectively. Alongside this, we support local communities with tailored energy efficiency schemes and advice.

Our end-to-end service includes:

• Assessing household eligibility
• Property surveys
• Whole-house retrofit recommendations
• Installation management
• Quality assurance and compliance
• Resident engagement and aftercare
• Monitoring and reporting of outcomes and social value