Warm Homes: Local Grant (Warmer Homes — Portsmouth-led consortium)

Description

Free or subsidised home energy-efficiency improvements — insulation, low-carbon heating (including air source heat pumps), and solar PV — for lower-income households in Bracknell Forest, Bedford, Brighton & Hove, Isle of Wight, Luton, Milton Keynes, Portsmouth, Reading, Rutland, Southampton, West Berkshire, Wokingham, Basingstoke and Deane, East Hampshire, Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport, Hart, Havant, New Forest, Rushmoor, Test Valley, Winchester, Adur, Arun, Chichester, Crawley, Horsham, Mid Sussex, and Worthing, delivered through 'Warmer Homes', a 30+-authority consortium led by Portsmouth City Council in partnership with AgilityEco, under the national Warm Homes: Local Grant.

Eligibility summary

• Available in: England.
• Open to individuals — not restricted to businesses.
• Relevant income bands: earning under the Personal Allowance, basic rate taxpayers.

Notes

Widened across two West Sussex batches to add all seven two-tier districts as confirmed consortium members. First batch (Adur, Arun, Chichester, and Crawley): the consortium's own warmerhomes.org.uk homepage names Adur & Worthing, Arun District Council, Chichester District Council, and Crawley Borough Council as partners, and Crawley Borough Council's own website separately confirms delivery via Warmworks under the same national Warm Homes: Local Grant programme. Second batch (Horsham, Mid Sussex, and Worthing): each has its own dedicated warmerhomes.org.uk/energy-saving-grants/<district> page confirmed directly, completing West Sussex — Horsham District Council's page states 'Horsham Council has teamed up with Warmer Homes to obtain funding for energy-saving grants', Mid Sussex District Council's page states 'Mid Sussex Council has teamed up with Warmer Homes...', and Worthing Borough Council's page states 'Worthing Council has partnered with Warmer Homes...', each citing the same national Warm Homes: Local Grant (WH:LG) programme. Previously widened in the August 2026 batch covering Havant, New Forest, Rushmoor, Test Valley and Winchester — the remaining five Hampshire two-tier districts — to add all five as confirmed consortium members, completing coverage of all eleven Hampshire districts/boroughs. Each has its own dedicated warmerhomes.org.uk/energy-saving-grants/<district> page confirmed directly: Havant, New Forest, Rushmoor, Test Valley, and Winchester. Previously widened in the August 2026 batch covering six Hampshire districts (Basingstoke and Deane, East Hampshire, Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport, and Hart) to add all six as confirmed consortium members — each has its own dedicated warmerhomes.org.uk/energy-saving-grants/<district> page, and Basingstoke and Deane's own press coverage explicitly confirms it 'is part of the Warmer Homes Consortium', while Eastleigh Borough Council's own reporting describes the scheme as 'led by Portsmouth City Council, working in partnership with a consortium of 30 other local authorities' with Eastleigh as 'one of the major Hampshire authorities participating'. This is the first confirmation of Hampshire-district membership in this directory, resolving the note in the prior batch that the wider consortium 'spans around 30 authorities across Hampshire, West Sussex, Berkshire, Bedfordshire, and beyond'. Previously widened in the August 2026 batch covering West Berkshire and Wokingham to add both as confirmed consortium members — West Berkshire has its own dedicated warmerhomes.org.uk/energy-saving-grants/west-berkshire page, and Wokingham's own council news page directs residents to warmerhomes.org.uk and the same 0800 038 5737 contact number already cited here. Previously widened in the August 2026 batch covering Southampton to add it as a confirmed consortium member — Southampton City Council's own 'Warmer Homes grants for energy-saving home upgrades' page and the dedicated warmerhomes.org.uk/energy-saving-grants/southampton page both carry Portsmouth City Council branding and route registration through the same Warmer Homes contact details (0800 038 5737 / retrofit@warmerhomes.org.uk) already cited here. Previously widened in the August 2026 batch covering Portsmouth, Reading, and Rutland to add all three as confirmed consortium members — Portsmouth City Council is the consortium's own lead authority (confirmed via the council's own 'Portsmouth celebrates successful Warm Homes scheme' page, with over 70 Portsmouth households already benefiting), Reading Borough Council's own energy-efficiency grants page names Portsmouth and 31 other authorities as consortium partners with AgilityEco as scheme administrator, and Rutland County Council's own page confirms it 'has teamed up with Warmer Homes' under the same WH:LG programme. Previously widened in the August 2026 batch covering Isle of Wight, Luton, and Milton Keynes to add all three as confirmed consortium members — the government's Warm Homes: Local Grant successful-local-authorities list groups all three under lead authority 'Portsmouth' with the same £34,807,254 funding line as the other Portsmouth-consortium councils already tagged here, and Isle of Wight and Milton Keynes each additionally have their own dedicated page on the warmerhomes.org.uk site. The wider Warmer Homes consortium spans around 30 authorities in total, several of which remain outside this directory's current council-trawl scope and are not tagged here.

Requirement

Homeowner or private tenant of a home with an EPC rating of D or below in a member authority area, with total household income under £36,000 or receipt of a means-tested benefit.

Other areas' version of this scheme

Warm Homes: Local Grant (Warmer Homes — Portsmouth-led consortium) is run locally — here's the same scheme in other areas.