Our Warm Homes Leics Coalition is part of a national United for Warm Homes campaign with local and national groups across the country. Together we aim to build enough pressure on our MPs and their political parties to get the government to do the following:
- provide real financial support for people in fuel poverty now
- set up and fund a nationwide street by street home insulation program, starting in the areas with the highest levels of fuel poverty
- provide real support for UK renewable energy generation
- end government support for the fossil fuel industry.
We’ve been making videos with our brilliant #WarmHomesLeics Coalition partners about why home insulation matters to the people they work with. Watch them on our YouTube channel – or go directly to the 8 min one with many partners in it here!
This song, written and performed for us by a supporter, sums up why we want our politicians to pledge their support for the Warm Homes campaign. Please watch it here, and then sign and share the petition here.
You can find our petition to local MPs here. Please sign and get other people to sign it!
You can find out more info here for the Warm This Winter Coalition and United for Warm Homes. Other Warm Homes groups are forming around the UK. You can see a map here.
So far our WarmHomesLeics Coalition consists of the groups below, but more are joining. We’re working together to push our MPs and political parties for action on the Warm Homes calls (see above). If you’re part of a group who might be interested, do have a look at what it involves and/or get in touch leicesterclimateaction[@]gmail.com.
So far our #WarmHomesLeics Coalition includes:
- Climate Action Leicester and Leicestershire – that’s us!
- The Race Equality Centre.
- Caritas Leicester and Leicestershire.
- Labour Behind the Label.
- One Roof Leicester.
- Victoria Park Health Centre.
- Women 4 Change.
- Leicester and District Trades Union Council (LandDTUC).
- Home-Start South Leicestershire.
- Hindu Climate Action.
- Global Justice Leicester and Leicestershire.
- Parents for Future Leicestershire.
- Muslim Green Guardians.
- COG Youth Services.
- Fuel Poverty Action Leicestershire.
- Fashion-workers Advice Bureau Leicester (FAB-L).
- Quetzal, supporting women recovering from the trauma of childhood sexual abuse.
- Leicester Society of Friends (Quakers).
- Opal22 Arts and Edutainment.
- Greenlight, connecting Christ, creation and community.
- Loughborough Quakers.
- Loughborough Climate Vigil.
- St Annes, St Augustine and St Pauls Churches.
- Leicester Friends of the Earth.
- Tilton Green Community Group.
- Extinction Rebellion Leicester.
- Green Lives Green Planet Desford.
- Red Leicester Choir.
- Aylestone Park Residents’ Group.
- South Highfields Neighbours.
- Leicester Progressive Jewish Congregation (Neve Shalom).
- Barrow Greener Living.
18/11/23: Warm Homes and Climate Action Community Gathering. Thankyou so much to all the people and groups who came to and supported this gathering. Lots of lobbying of politicians and MPs went on (both in person and via social media).
Please help to grow our campaign:
- Sign and share our local Warm Homes petition to our local MPs asking them to take action.
- Are you part of a group who might like to join our LeicsWarmHomes Coalition? Have a look at what it involves here or get in touch (leicesterclimateaction[@]gmail.com)
- Do you have somewhere that might like to display our quilt? Do get in touch!
- Would you like us to run a Warm Homes workshop or talk for a group you’re in? Again, do get in touch.
Among other things, so far we have:
- Started building a local WarmHomesLeics Coaltion of organisations, groups and communities who want to push for action on fuel poverty and climate change.
- Taken part in the Warm Homes Mass Lobby of MPs at the start of April this year (watch a short video here) and MPs are starting to sign up – look here to see if yours did.
- Set up a 5 mins a week WhatsApp group to get people taking action.
- In the May and June general election run up we repeatedly wrote to and contacted our candidates asking them to sign the pledge to support WarmHomes. 20 of the 30 candidates signed. Now we’re trying to arrange meetings with the MPs elected.
- On 11/3/24 we ran a series of 5 mini demos outside our local MPs offices. We handed in a letters asking our MPs to meet us and a report on fuel poverty, took photos and then used them for them for press work and on social media.
- Spoken at The Race Equality Centre’s (TREC’s) AGM on the shared causes of and solutions to climate change and fuel poverty
- Run stalls and workshops and conversations on how people can reduce their energy use, cope better in cold homes and push for government action on fuel poverty and climate change.
We have loads of ideas and we want to hear yours! Join us and get involved – we need people to make this work! Email leicesterclimateaction[@]gmail.com to join our working group.
