Where does the money come from?

Our Big Energy Challenge is funded by the Treasury’s ‘Invest to Save Budget’ – money set aside to support schemes aimed at improving public services.

The money – £770,000 – has been allocated specifically to this project and is not allowed to be put to any other purpose.

Challenge 1

Some appliances like phone chargers continue to consume electricity when not in use. Switch off at the socket!

Switch mobile phone chargers off at the socket. Unless you do this, your charger will continue to work even when it’s not actually charging up a phone. You can tell it’s using electricity because it’ll be warm. Across the UK, mobile phone chargers left plugged in waste electricity worth over £60 million.