Warm Homes is the umbrella name for the government’s current home upgrade funding in England. You will not find a single application form for it, because the money reaches homes through different routes depending on who owns the property.
Delivered by local councils for lower income households in privately owned and privately rented homes. Councils set their own delivery areas and run their own application routes, so what is available depends on where you live and which scheme your council is currently running.
For social landlords upgrading their own stock. Tenants do not apply; the landlord bids for funding and appoints a contractor. We work on programmes of this kind for housing providers and main contractors.
A separate grant of £7,500 towards an air source heat pump for owner occupiers and private landlords in England and Wales. It is not means tested. We apply for it on your behalf as part of the installation.
Grant amounts, eligibility rules and delivery areas are set by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and by individual councils, and they change as funding rounds open and close. Figures on this page were checked in September 2026. We will confirm the current position for your property and your area before anything is agreed.
The grant routes are aimed at the measures that cut what a home needs before they change how it is heated. What any individual property gets is decided by a survey and, on the council schemes, by an assessment against the retrofit standard PAS 2035.
Cavity wall, internal wall, external wall, loft, room in roof, under floor and flat roof insulation. These are the measures that reduce the heat a property loses, and on most homes they come before anything else. Our own crews install all of them.
Air source heat pumps, heating controls and, on some schemes, first time central heating for homes that have never had it. Heating is sized after the fabric work, so the system fits the house you will have rather than the house you have now.
What a scheme will fund changes as funding rounds open and close. We will tell you the current position for your area and your property when we survey, including where a measure is not worth doing.
We do not decide who qualifies and we cannot approve anyone. What we can do is tell you which route fits your situation and put the survey and the paperwork in front of the people who do decide.
The Local Grant route is aimed at lower income households in homes with a poor energy rating. Councils publish their own criteria, which commonly consider household income, whether anyone receives a means tested benefit, and the property’s EPC band. Private tenants need their landlord’s agreement.
Your landlord applies, not you. If you are a tenant of a housing association or council and want to know what is planned for your home, your landlord is the right first call. We deliver these programmes on their behalf.
The Boiler Upgrade Scheme grant is open to owner occupiers and private landlords in England and Wales regardless of income, for properties with a valid EPC and no outstanding insulation recommendations on it.
Its address, roughly when it was built, how it is heated now and who owns it. That is usually enough for us to say which route, if any, is likely to apply.
Funding rounds open and close, and councils run different schemes at different times. We check what is live for your area rather than working from a leaflet.
In person, looking at the roof, the loft, the walls, the heating and how the house is actually used. No satellite estimates. If nothing is worth doing, we say so.
With the measures set out, the funding position stated plainly, and every certificate and guarantee listed. Nothing is committed until you say so.
Tell us about the property and we will tell you which funding route fits, what a survey would look at, and what happens next. There is no charge for the survey and no obligation at the end of it.
If you would rather talk first, ring 01200 407790 or email hello@energygiants.co.uk.
Housing providers and main contractors: our sub contracting page covers programme delivery.
To the council, on the Local Grant route, and your landlord applies on the social housing route. We are the installer, not the funder. What we do is check which schemes are live for your area, survey the property and provide the quote and the technical paperwork the scheme asks for.
No. Warm Homes grant funding does not have to be paid back. If a scheme asks for a contribution from you towards a particular measure, that will be stated in writing on your quote before anything is agreed.
We will tell you, and we will tell you why. Plenty of work is worth doing without a grant, and plenty is not. Either way you get a straight answer at the survey rather than a sales pitch.
Not usually under the Warm Homes routes, which are aimed at insulation and heating. Solar and battery storage are quoted separately, and our cost page sets out the indicative ranges.
It depends on the scheme and on the council. A survey is usually within a week or two of you contacting us. Scheme approval sits with the funder and can take longer, which is why we set out the timescales for your route at the survey rather than promising a date we do not control.
Our own crews, from our Clitheroe head office. Insulation programmes are delivered under our PAS 2030 certification for flat roof insulation and as a TrustMark registered installer, with retrofit assessment and coordination to PAS 2035 on the whole house schemes.
A free survey, a straight answer on what your property needs, and the current funding position for your area.
