https://www.ruralcc.org.uk/wow/

Come along everyone welcome to

'WOW' FREE ADVICE EVENT

Popping up in your community

Warm+optimistic+well

Tips to keep your home safe & warm

Smarter ways to save time, energy & money

Cook smart & save £££

WHERE:

Blackfordby Old School Room

Main Street

Blackfordby

DE11 8AB

https://maps.app.goo.gl/eZSwFCFbU7CzkdkS8

WHEN:

Monday 21st of October 2024

12.30-2.30pm

Funded by Cadent, our WOW project delivers a range of outreach and capacity building activities to support vulnerable and disadvantaged people in rural communities stay warm, become more optimistic, and improve their mental, physical, and social wellbeing.

Our team is travelling to all corners of rural Leicestershire and Rutland, popping up warm and welcoming spaces for people to connect and explore creative ways to stay warm, well, and save a bit of money too.

Through WOW we work with communities to move rural households away from fuel poverty towards safe and affordable warmth. We talk openly to communities about fuel poverty, raising awareness of who is at risk and the negative impacts it can have.

Our friendly team is on hand to advise people on methods of self-help (e.g., ways of saving energy and keeping warm during winter), recommend other useful sources of support (e.g., benefits checks, priority services register, money advice, employment support etc.), and to build capacity of local people and groups to continue longer term community action.

Our mental wellbeing can be improved massively by building strong social connections and networks of support within our communities. Sadly, if you are dealing with fuel poverty or struggling with the rising cost of living it is generally your social life that is negatively impacted first.

You are more likely to suffer from loneliness; and less likely to have the money to go out and grab a coffee with friends, invite visitors into your home, afford fuel to travel and see family, or to pay for data to connect via social media.

WOW is helping to remove some of these barriers by popping up an informal, safe, warm, and welcoming social space within communities, offering great coffee & tea a chance to get creative, free wi-fi, and device charging facilities free of charge and with no questions asked.