Find out what’s going on and have your say to shape our Planet’s vital resources, we’ve turned the spotlight on heating our homes at our FREE event.

 Can you afford to Turbo-Charge your home?

What’s the cheapest route to saving money on/in your home?

EVERYONE WELCOME - No knowledge or experience needed.

FREE Refreshments and FREE event packs 

Hosted by

DLA Piper LLP, 1 St Paul’s Place, Sheffield S1 2JX

(Entrance between Café Nero and Café Rouge outside the Peace Gardens) 

Registration 1.30pm; 1.40pm start, Wednesday 14^th March 2012 

Book your place; Donate using our Online Registration System

Minimum suggested donation:  £1 Students and concessions;  £5 Anyone else

Standard Charge: £15 for booking but not turning up or turning up without booking.

Facilitators:

Perry Walker, Fellow, New Economics Foundation (nef)

Wendy Stern, Founder and Chairman, Action for Involvement

Our Experts include:

·       Tom Lipinski, Chief Technical Officer, Green Structures Ltd, London;

·       Dr Karl Redmond, Director, Construction Service Network, Leeds Metropolitan University;

·       Dr. Tony Rooke, UK Sustainability Services Practice Lead, Logica;

·       Eddie Murphy, Technical Director, Mott MacDonald, Sheffield;

·       Dr Hasim Altan, Building Environments Analysis Unit, The University of Sheffield.

Work in small groups with our experts and use Crowd Wise, a highly interactive tool nef developed to create consensus, just a few of the questions you may ask to tackle this issue could include:

·       How can we prevent our heating bills going through the roof?

·       Should we put up prefabs to house our young and single people?  

·       Can we afford to invest in sustainable housing?  

·       How will our Council involve us in decisions on affordable and sustainable housing?

·       Should the Government develop a sustainable, eco-friendly housing programme to cut emissions and save energy?

·       How will we house our aging parents and grandparents?

For more info (links to our newsblog or other websites; some files are pdfs)

• Death of a thousand tips (opens as a pdf)
• Ethicalliving.climatechange
• Top Ten Eco Tips, Energy Saving Trust (now defunct)
• The Golden Rule
• Sheffield Solar Farm, Project Sunshine, University of Sheffield

Action for Involvement creates space for people to get together with high level policy makers, decision-makers and key stakeholders where we tackl issues affecting all of us. Interests include education, housing, transport, technology, health and welfare.

Personal data we collect from you is for our sole use including the preparation of attendee list for all participants; photographs taken at our events may be used on our website or in other publicity. 

We gratefully appreciate funds from the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Ingenious Grants Project events and endorsement by our Steering Group which has made this series of events possible.