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Warm Homes: Local Grant

The Warm Homes: Local Grant is a UK Government-funded scheme providing free home improvements - like insulation measures, solar panels or heat pumps - for low-income, privately owned homes. It will help these households heat their homes, reduce their energy bills and be well-adapted to climate change.

The application portal reopened in April 2026. You can visit this site to check your eligibility and submit your application.

The application process is being managed by the Greater London Authority’s delivery partner, Sureserve. They have had difficulties contacting some applicants, despite their repeated attempts. To discuss your application, call 020 3961 5210 or email [email protected]. 

For more information, visit the Warm Homes: Local Grant page on the London City Hall site. 

How the scheme works

Camden Council is a member of the London Consortium, made up of 30 other London boroughs and led by the Greater London Authority (GLA) and London Councils. We are working with other London boroughs to deliver the scheme in a co-ordinated, efficient approach.

Read the GLA’s Warmer Homes privacy notice, to understand how the GLA uses your personal information when you apply (or someone in your household or your landlord applies) to the Warm Homes: Local Grant programme. 

What can be funded 

If you are applying as a homeowner or a private tenant, you are not required or expected to make any contributions to the cost of upgrades. 

If you’re applying as a landlord, you can apply for multiple eligible homes. You may be able to receive full funding for one home, but you must pay 50% of upgrade costs for any additional homes upgraded after the first. Tenants are not required or expected to pay for upgrade costs. 

The aim of the scheme is to boost the EPC rating of your home to at least a 'C' once the improvements have been installed. Measures that could be funded include:

  • wall, loft and underfloor insulation
  • solar panels
  • Low Carbon Heating – including air source heat pumps

Check your eligibility

To qualify for the Warm Homes: Local Grant, you must meet the following criteria: 

  • your home must be in England
  • you must own your home or rent from a private landlord
  • your home must have an energy performance certificate (EPC) rating of D, E, F or G. You can find your EPC out when you apply or check your home’s energy certificate on GOV.UK
  • your total savings are less than £25,000, including money in bank accounts, ISAs, and other savings. If you have £25,000 or more in savings, you cannot get help from this scheme unless someone in your property is eligible for Pension Credit Guarantee Credit
  • your home must be located within one of the government’s priority postcodes. Check whether your postcode qualifies here  

Or

  • you have a gross household income below £36,000 a year or at least one resident on a means-tested benefit including housing benefit, job seekers allowance, pension credit or universal credit