The Great British Refurb has been busily telling Government to help consumers make sustainable refurbishment affordable. We have used lots of different methods to get our messages across from petitions to No 10 Downing Street to public forms with political leaders to Parliamentary events with leading MPs. And our message is getting through.

The Department for Energy and Climate Change recently asked the Energy Saving Trust to pilot several innovative finance plans to cover the upfront costs of more expensive, energy efficiency and microgeneration measures. Many of us are already doing the easy stuff like cavity wall insulation, loft top up and low energy lighting. It’s the more expensive measures which are out of reach for a lot of us.