Beat The Cold

16/07/2024

Follow our new page below.

Welcome to the official page of Beat the Cold. We are a dedicated charity committed to ensuring that everyone has access to warm, safe and comfortable homes in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.

Our mission is to reduce fuel poverty and promote energy efficiency. We offer a range of services, including:

🔹 Home energy assessments
🔹 Advice on managing energy bills
🔹 Support for accessing grants and funding
🔹 Information on energy saving measures

Our page will offer the latest updates, tips and resources to help you stay warm and well throughout the year.

Thank you for joining our community. For more information, visit our website: www.beatcold.org.uk

16/07/2024

Important announcement - we have created a new page to enhance our communication and engagement with our community.

We kindly request for all current followers to follow our new page by visiting this link: https://www.facebook.com/BeatTheColdStaffs/

By doing so, you will continue to receive essential updates, tips and resources to help you stay warm and healthy during the colder months.

Your support is invaluable to us and we look forward to keeping you up to date with our activity.

02/02/2024

✅ Low income households in Stoke-on-Trent could be in line for a £150 energy bill support payment.

🏠 Most eligible households will have the discount applied automatically to bills or it will be available as a top-up voucher for pre-payment meters.

☎️ If you have received a letter asking you to ring the Government helpline to confirm your details please do this by Thursday 29 February 2024.

👉 You can use the online eligibility checker on the Warm Home Discount gov.uk page or call the helpline on 0800 030 9322.

➡️ Help and support is also available through Beat the Cold on 01782 914915.

30/01/2024

Earlier today we launched the Fegg Hayes Community Lounge at Fegg Hayes Futures offering vital support to our residents.

Residents can access advice and support on everything from mental health and wellbeing to training and employment.

📅It is open every Tuesday and on a weekly basis, between 10 am and 12pm.

Find your local community lounge here ➡https://communities-together.co.uk

30/01/2024

UHNM declares Critical Incident

Simon Evans, UHNM Chief Operating Officer said: “We are currently experiencing extremely high demand for all our services. Both Royal Stoke University Hospital and County Hospital in Stafford have been under severe and sustained pressure since the holiday period however we have seen even greater demands in the last 24 hours.

“We have therefore taken the decision to declare a critical incident. This helps us to take additional measures to maintain safe services for our patients.

“We will always do our best for patients and keep patients safe and locally we are working with our NHS and local authority partners to put in place measures to ensure that people who need hospital and emergency care can get treatment quickly and to identify and utilise any additional capacity to allow us to discharge patients that do not require hospital care.

“As anticipated, the pressure is greatest in our emergency departments, who are facing on-going challenges as patients are unable to be admitted to beds promptly.

“During this time the emergency departments will continue to see the sickest patients first, which means for some patients there may be much longer delays for their treatment.

“We continue to ask the public to help us by only using A&E in a serious or life threatening emergency and for their help when we’re discharging their friends or loved ones to ensure they’re picked up from hospital as soon as possible and have everything they need at home.

“I would like to thank our staff for their on-going efforts during this extremely challenging period and the public for their understanding and co-operation.”

23/01/2024

The Warm Home Discount Scheme could take £150 off your winter electricity bill - eligibility, how to get your discount, deadlines.

24/10/2023

A reminder that this Saturday (28 October) from 12 noon there will be singing, dancing and street performances in Stafford town centre to mark the reopening of the Market Square following its refurbishment.
More details from https://bit.ly/sbctownevent and a list of performers throughout the day at https://www.staffordbc.gov.uk/event/stafford-market-square-re-opening-celebration-event-28-october-2023

24/10/2023

We are delighted to have been shortlisted in the Community Transport Association 2023 Photograph of the Year Award! 🎉
Our shortlisted image captures a trip organised for our members to The Black Country Living Museum and shows how our transport service is much more than getting someone from A to B, it helps people to live well with sight loss.
We need as many people as possible to vote for Beacon with the winner set to be announced at an awards ceremony next month
You can vote for us via this link by November 6th: https://ctauk.org/ct23-competition-cast-your-vote/

This is our shortlisted image for photo of the year, it shows four men with the arms around each other outside the museum, smiling towards the camera.

24/10/2023

24/10/2023

🥳👏 Congratulations to Newcastle-under-Lyme, which has won the Royal Horticultural Society's prestigious Britain in Bloom award https://bbc.in/3SbYP2e

🌷 Newcastle won its category as the best ‘small city’ in the UK, along with a Gold Award for the quality of its entry and then claimed the overall prize for best winner.