Fuel Poverty and Rising Costs: Who’s Struggling This Winter? | Sponsored
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🗓️ 9 November 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Fuel poverty is hitting homeowners, full-time workers, and young people. As energy prices rise and the cost of living crisis deepens, heating our homes is becoming increasingly difficult.
In this episode, host Zoe Grunewald speaks with Jessica Taplin, CEO of British Gas Energy Trust, Martin Lord from Citizens Advice Essex, and Carol Shreve from Citizens Advice North Yorkshire and Law Centre. Together, they discuss the shifting demographics affected by fuel poverty, the importance of community-based support, and the urgent need for policy changes.
We also explore insights from British Gas Energy Trust's roundtable events across the UK, highlighting the collaborative efforts required to tackle this growing issue.
This New Statesman podcast episode is sponsored by British Gas Energy Trust, an independent charitable trust fully funded by British Gas, celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.
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| 0:27.6 | Hello and welcome to this special podcast brought to you by the New Statesman Spotlight Team. |
| 0:33.1 | We cover policy for those who shape it and the businesses it affects. |
| 0:37.3 | I'm Zoe Grunewold. |
| 0:43.0 | As energy prices rise and the cost of living crisis deepens, more people are falling into fuel |
| 0:48.9 | poverty. It's no longer just the elderly and disabled seeking help. Homeowners, full-time workers, |
| 0:54.8 | young people, carers and those in rural areas are now facing this struggle. In this episode, |
| 1:00.4 | we'll explore insights from the British Gas Energy Trust's roundtable events held around the UK |
| 1:05.1 | this year in cities including Glasgow, London, Doncaster and Bristol. The events focused on the impact of fuel poverty |
| 1:12.1 | on different groups in society, from young people struggling with insecure housing and jobs |
| 1:16.8 | to unpaid carers facing additional energy costs. This episode has been fully funded by British |
| 1:22.6 | Gas Energy Trust, an independent charitable trust established 20 years ago this year, fully funded by British |
| 1:28.7 | Gas. |
| 1:29.8 | Joining me on the panel today is British Gas Energy Trust CEO Jessica Taplin, alongside |
| 1:34.9 | Martin Lorde, Director of Citizens Advice Essex and Carol Shreve, CEO of Citizens Advice, North Yorkshire |
| 1:41.4 | and Law Centre. Welcome all of you. Let's kick off with you, Jessica. |
| 1:46.1 | How has the role of the British Gas Energy Trust evolved to meet the needs of this broader |
| 1:50.3 | demographic, including people like homeowners and full-time workers? |
| 1:54.5 | Hi, Zay. In the last few years, the trust has had to really respond quite rapidly to the growing |
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