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Tag: Cumbria Action for Sustainability

FREE Thermal Imaging Survey for Arnside Residents

Sustainable Arnside offered this FREE service last year and are offering it again this year to people who are interested in understanding the areas of their home they can insulate better and, in the long run, save money – which I guess is most likely all of us!

Thermal imaging can identify cold spots in your home, such as draughts around windows and doors, missing and defective insulation, water ingress, damp, and cold bridges. It can indicate both quick fixes and areas that require professional advice and support you on your journey to make your home warmer, healthier, cheaper to heat and lower your home’s carbon footprint.

The thermal imaging camera detects the heat emitted by objects and shows it in a colour-coded way – the colder areas are shown in blue and the warmer ones in red.

This year, alongside our amazing army of volunteer thermal imaging surveyors, we are working with two of our Cold to Cosy Homes home energy advisors to provide coverage of the whole of Cumbria. Anyone is eligible for the home survey. Both advisors and volunteers are trained to the same standard and will be offering the same basic thermal imaging survey.

Among the community groups volunteering to offer surveys to their friends and neighbours is Sustainable Arnside. Collectively, these fabulous volunteers will allow at least ten times as many households to benefit from thermal imaging surveys than if Cumbria Action For Sustainability worked alone. They have also provided high spec FLIR cameras which are calibrated to give accurate readings.

The window for conducting thermal imaging is late October as the weather turns colder, through to end of March, before the weather warms up. All surveys are carried out by volunteers in collaboration with Cumbria Action for Sustainability

To register your interest or for further information, contact: thermalarnside@gmail.com

To visit the CAfS website, click here.

Sustainable Arnside Thermal Imaging
Sustainable Arnside Thermal Imaging

‘Repair Cafe’ to Launch in Arnside This Autumn

Sustainable Arnside is starting up a Repair Cafe in Arnside this Autumn having recently been sucessful in being awarded a £1,580 grant by Cumbria Action for Sustainability to start up this social community event. Volunteer repairers will fix broken items brought in to the cafe, helping to reduce waste, consumption and carbon emissions.

The initial talk ‘What is a Repair Cafe?’ is on Wednesday, 18th September at the Arnside Educational Institute at 7.30pm.

On Monday, 30th September there is a meeting at the Community Cafe at the E.I.from 10-11am. This is for people wanting to find out more and who are interested in getting involved with Arnside Repair Cafe. They are looking for people who like to repair items and general volunteers to help run the sessions.

The first monthly Arnside Repair Cafe will take place Monday, 28th October at the Community Cafe from 10am-12 noon.

Arnside Repair Cafe is being funded by the National Lottery Community Fund and are part of the Zero Carbon Cumbria Partnership’s ambitious emission reduction programme to make Cumbria carbon neutral by 2037.

For further information, contact Alison Sandford on 07735851481 or email: ali@thesandfords.plus.com


New Group For Arnside – Sustainable Arnside

‘Sustainable Arnside’ is a new community-led group in the village that is planning to support Arnside village when facing the challenges of Climate Change. While aware that everyone is on their own journey regarding the contributions of humans to climate change and what to do about it, and certainly not telling anyone what they should believe or what they should do, these are personal choices. However, if you believe the amount of carbon we are producing, nationally and locally, is dangerous and needs to be addressed, they are here to help.

The Government has set deadlines regarding how we heat our homes and how we use our transport, and these deadlines are looming ever closer. Households in Arnside and beyond now need to visualise how they might meet those deadlines, which is often not an easy task. The group aims to offer guidance and help to those who are trying to make those changes – you might even save some money by addressing your carbon footprint!

If you have any great ideas or suggestions but don’t have time yourself, they would be delighted to hear from you. Contact them by email at: p.bates@lancaster.ac.uk with Sustainable Arnside in the subject line.

You can view, download or print their Mission Statement below.