03 February 2012

Eaga Charitable Trust supports projects that promote a better understanding of fuel poverty and more effective means of tackling it. This includes understanding the causes of fuel poverty, how to prevent it and which groups are most likely to suffer fuel poverty. It also includes how best to target assistance to those in fuel poverty or at risk of it.

They do not support physical energy efficiency measures but they can fund evaluation and promotion of targeted energy efficiency strategies.

As well as funding work that fits their general programme, in 2012 the Trust will also be prioritising applications which address one or more of the following themes:

• Fuel poverty and disability
• Fuel poverty and young children
• The links between fuel poverty and migrant communities
• Real and perceived barriers to the take-up of assistance
• Fuel poverty and the climate change agenda
• Fuel poverty definition and target.

Further details about each theme are available on the guidance notes which you can download from the website.
You can look at details of previously funded projects here.

The Trust want to speak to potential applicants at an early stage to discuss their ideas and whether they are likely to fall within their areas of interest.

You can download an application form here.

Deadline: next round 14 May (decisions late June)
Contact: Dr Naomi Brown, Trust Manager
Telephone: 01539 736 477
Email: eagact@aol.com
Website: http://www.eagacharitabletrust.org/home