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We’re decarbonisation funding consultants helping maximise grant and other funding you can claim for retrofit work. We identify, optimise, obtain and administer funding for you, dealing with all the complexity so you can focus on your core business.

Housing Associations & Local Authorities

Maximising Retrofit Funding For The Social Housing Sector.

Problems We Solve

We're vastly experienced in the sector and we know that the challenges with delivering retrofit are real. We've designed our services to directly solve problems related to affordability, funding complexity and constrained resources.

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Funding shortfall

With retrofit set to cost the sector many millions of pounds, more funding is needed. The current funding pots don't go far enough leaving a funding deficit to begin with.

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Complexity

The retrofit funding landscape is hugely complex and as a result, most are only scratching the surface of what could be achieved in terms of winning funding. There is money being left on the table today due to not planning and executing retrofit projects effectively and assessing the whole of the funding market.

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Knowledge gaps

Our research shows that an expert service, bridging the gap between social housing and funding streams, would hugely benefit the sector. We're an expert service with an understanding of what’s possible, how to optimise it, how to manage funding criteria changes, and just as importantly, how not to go about funding and become ineligible and possibly subject to punitive terms.

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Bandwidth

Our experience working with social housing clients tells us the sector is always under pressure and resource constrained. We recognise the challenges of delivering quality housing as well as additional pressure WHQS has put on the sector not to mention now having to deliver retrofit. Our research shows that many don't have bandwidth or resources to become funding experts as well.

How We Do It

Independent Funding Consultants

The problems highlighted above represent a significant challenge to the sector. Adding funding complexity to funding knowledge gaps and lack of bandwidth to deal with all this in detail creates a perfect storm where not all the available funding for social housing retrofit is being drawn down, which considering there's already a funding shortfall to begin with, is a problem.

We’re retrofit funding specialists, helping clients in the social housing sector to optimise and maximise the amount of public (and private) funding they can claim for retrofit.

 

We're not affiliated with building contractors and do not provide delivery and funding packages ourselves, therefore you have complete transparency between the funding available and your project install costs.

How We Do It

Accelerating Retrofit With Innovative Funding Solutions

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Optimised Retrofit Grant Funding

Seeking and obtaining free available grant funding should be a non negotiable for housing associations grappling with affordability of retrofit.

 

Grant funding is admittedly complex though and navigating it sometimes won't get on your to-do-list. We've designed our services around grant funding so that we do the heavy lifting so you don't have to.

What's more, we've built our entire grant funding service around the concept of optimising the funding that's available. In other words, we establish for each of your properties how to leverage the funding that's available to the fullest extent possible meaning retrofit becomes more affordable and you reduce capital expenditure on projects.

Financing For Solar PV

Solar PV is a significant opportunity for the social housing sector to not just accelerate retrofit and improve SAP ratings but to reduce energy costs and mitigate against the risk of future energy price inflation.

Public sector grant funding for solar PV is a little restrictive for social housing but we've remained as passionate about PV and committed to it's wider adoption than ever.

Accordingly, we're bringing innovative funding options from the commercial sector into social housing that will help accelerate wider PV adoption and deliver all it's associated benefits more widely into the sector, all whilst helping to limit the amount of required capital investment in projects.

Solar panels on social housing

What We Do

Services For Social Housing

We're here to help you strategise, plan, find, optimise, secure, deliver and administer retrofit funding for your projects with the goal of delivering the maximum amount of grant funding possible to your retrofit projects.

We have deep experience in social housing and expertise in funding retrofit projects. We find the very best value funding solution for your projects from grant funding sources and innovative funding mechanisms created by Optify.

Retrofit funding appraisal

What We Do

Multiple Ways To Fund Retrofit For Optimal Results

With access to green financing, mechanisms to provide fully funded battery and solar PV schemes as well as grant funding that's available to social housing, we have several ways to help make retrofit more affordable and minimise capital expenditure on projects. We’re completely funder agnostic; we’re not affiliated with any specific utility company or funder so when we advise you on retrofit funding and find funding for you, you'll have access to the whole funding market and we're therefore able to achieve best value for you.

We assess your properties (or project) by doing a multi dimensional funding optimisation appraisal to assess your specific funding requirements and identify the best/ optimal funding package available for your requirements with the safety of additionality non-compliance already addressed whilst ensuring adherence to PAS and TrustMark and specific funding criteria.

We will also soon be launching innovative funding options not seen before, read about this here. Our clients will be able to claim this additional funding on top of grant money that can currently be claimed, making more contribution towards the cost of your retrofit obligations.

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