Annual Conference and Events

NEA Annual Conference



Countdown to 2010 – Are YOU doing enough?

NEA’s Annual Conference – Countdown to 2010: Warm and energy efficient homes for the vulnerable – will this year take place at the University of Chester from Monday 17–19 September 2007, supported by ScottishPower.

The plenary sessions at this year’s conference will cover the following issues:

  • Countdown to 2010
  • Targets for country, county and community
  • Ensuring social justice is compatible with an environmentally driven agenda

    Implications for the Government’s statutory targets to eradicate fuel poverty are severe. In only three years’ time the plan is – or should it be was? – that no vulnerable household will be fuel poor. The conference will focus on the national, regional and local actions needed to support delivery of the Government’s targets and how to ensure social justice is prioritised in an environmentally driven agenda.

    The new Minister of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Phil Woolas MP, has been invited to provide the ministerial address at the start of the conference.

    The main conference sessions are supported by eight seminars covering an extensive range of topics and three workshops allowing participants to have their say, ask questions and share knowledge and experience. An exhibition of products and services will be a main focus for the conference and will host discussion tables during breaks in the conference proceedings. There will be an opportunity to visit Ashton Hayes - the village aiming to be the first small community in England to achieve carbon neutral status. A varied social itinerary, including Roman and ghost tours and dinner at the Racecourse complete the line up for NEA's conference, offering informal networking opportunities. NEA is grateful for the support of ScottishPower, sponsors of this year's conference, and would also like to thank Defra for its additional support.

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    NEA Events Diary

    We also have a number of other events scheduled to take place over the coming months.

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    • Latest press releases 

    • NEA: Government fuel poverty initiatives are welcome but inadequate

      30/05/2008 - National Energy Action (NEA), the leading fuel poverty charity, has welcomed aspects of today’s Ofgem and Government fuel poverty action plan, but fears the measures announced will prove inadequate in the context of escalating fuel prices and 4.

    • NEA: Additional help for the fuel poor – but not enough?

      11/04/2008 - National Energy Action (NEA) the leading fuel poverty charity today welcomed the decision by all big six energy suppliers to offer more assistance to their vulnerable customers through social packages but expressed concern at the level of support.

    • NEA: You will pay more - that’s a dead cert

      02/04/2008 - The UK’s leading fuel poverty charity, National Energy Action (NEA), is urging the Government to come clean about the amount of public money the Government is spending on energy efficiency measures for low-income households and who is footing the bill.

    • National Energy Action charity backs fuel poverty report

      26/03/2008 - Leading fuel poverty charity National Energy Action (NEA) has today urged the Government to follow the recommendations of its own advisory group The Fuel Poverty Advisory Group (FPAG).