Our journey to Carbon Zero

Investing in our tenants’ homes to improve energy efficiency is a key part of our promise to provide, warm, safe, sustainable homes and help combat fuel poverty in the area.

At Two Rivers Housing, we’ve always been committed to reducing the impact we have on the environment and in 2014, we built our Rivers Meet office to BREEAM ‘Excellent’ standards.

We’ve been investing in improving the energy efficiency of our older homes through our planned maintenance programme for many years. We’ve installed new windows, doors and insulation across our stock and this programme will continue. We are also working towards ensuring that all of our properties have a minimum Energy Performance Certificate of C or above by 2030.

In 2020 we submitted a joint funding bid with Stroud District Council and Cheltenham Borough Homes for a grant to fund a decarbonisation pilot project in some of our homes in the Forest of Dean.

We completed this pilot project to fully retrofit 16 homes in the Gloucestershire village of Blakeney in 2022. Since then we have been increasing the number of homes we upgrade each year.

By April 2025 we completed energy improvement work in more than 300 of our homes using grants from the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund (formerly SHDF) and ECO4 programmes.

In 2025 we a secured £4.56m from the government’s Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund to help improve the energy efficiency of hundreds of our tenant’s homes in the Forest of Dean and across Gloucestershire.We will use the grant to partially fund upgrades to more than 750 of our homes.

The upgrades will include energy saving fittings such as solar panels, loft insulation and improved ventilation systems to homes that have low energy ratings.