B.E.S.T. Belford Energy Saving Together
Open Meeting for those who live in the Belford Conservation area. Guidance for those who wish to make planning applications.
Ferguson Hall 14th June 7 pm
Best Film -
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At The Chronicle Environment Awards evening at Centre for Life in Newcastle. BEST were finalists in two separate awards: the Climate Change Award and Community Group Award. Lined up in the photo we have Eric Gassner, Sam Murray, Ann Murray, Tray Anfield, Georgie Bruce, Diana Herbert, James Herbert, and Colin MacDonald.
BEST – Belford Energy Saving Together is a group of local residents who formed a local action group in October 2008 in order to help the village cut our carbon footprint and reduce our energy bills. The group aims to reduce the village’s carbon imitations by 10 % over a one-year period, ending in December 2010. By achieving our goal local people will save money and we will have positively contributed towards avoiding the cataclysmic consequences of global warming. The Energy Saving Trust supports us in this work.
The volunteer group meets approximates 10 times per year, and is made up of business and community leaders and scientists. The group can be contacted
via the Energy Saving Trust and contact details at the foot of this letter.
To achieve our aims we are exploring ways to:
Generate energy locally,
Insulate our buildings,
Change our behaviour to reduce our energy bills;
As a first step towards achieving these aims we are asking 70 householders to provide BEST with information from their energy bills, gas, coal, oil, electricity. We need to gather the units of energy householders’ use over 12 months, not the cost of your energy bills. We want to find a current representative sample in the village, so we can measure how effective we have been over the year.
BEST do have some energy monitors to loan out to households free of charge to help you find out how much electricity you are currently using and to help you decide how best to save electricity.. We are also keen to help those householders who do not qualify for free loft insulation to find the cheapest way to insulate their homes.
To find out more information contact:
Roy Dodds, 5 Clark Place, Belford
Tel. 01668 213681 email: randmdodds@talktalk.net
or
Diana Herbert, 5 Nursery Lane, Belford. NE70 7NW
Tel:01668 219584 email: dianaherbert@btinternet.com
