Meet the Community Heat Team
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Adam Clarkson
Heat Team Volunteer. Adam is an engineer by trade, working as a Naval Architect and has a general interest in interesting technology and sustainable changes. He moved to the area in June 2021 and thought he’d like to get involved with village life and thought that his skills would be suited to volunteering as a Community Heat Volunteer.
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Tim Crick
Project Leader & Heat Team Volunteer. Tim has been involved in the project from the early stages, helping get funding organised and building the Community Heat Team. He has undertaken Thermography and Energy Efficiency exams to help the team design and deliver the Heat Survey process.
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Kate Neville
Heat Team Volunteer. Kate lives close to West Linton and has an interest in supporting projects that assist efforts towards a net-zero society. With a corporate communications background, she has been helping with photography and project website development.
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Iain Roxburgh
Heat Team Volunteer. Iain has a background in sustainable development, community grant giving and environmental management, and currently works as a Non-Domestic Energy Assessor preparing EPCs for commercial buildings. He has relatively recently moved into West Linton, and is learning 'on the job' the demands of improving the energy efficiency of an older property!
All our Heat Team Volunteers have been PVG checked with Disclosure Scotland.
If you would like to contact us, please use our Contact section in the ‘Booking A Survey’ page.
DELIVERY PARTNERS
Sustainable West Linton & District
Dr Jon Stinson | BSc | PhD | FHEA
Peebles and District Citizens Advice Bureau
The Community Heat team do not give householders financial advice, but we have partnered with the Peebles and District Citizens Advice Bureau, so that local householders or those in rented properties can get in touch with them directly and arrange an appointment during one of their regular visits to our area.
Peebles and District Citizens Advice Bureau, part of the Citizens Advice network in Scotland, is a local charity providing free, independent, confidential, impartial advice in a range of areas including benefits, debt, energy, housing, employment, relationship and consumer issues. Peebles and District Citizens Advice deliver advice at the bureau in Peebles and across the Tweeddale area, with outreach appointments offered in West Linton, Romannobridge, Broughton, Skirling, Innerleithen and Walkerburn.
Peebles and District Citizens Advice Bureau’s current schedule for visiting our area is the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month in West Linton, in the Village Centre and the 3rd Thursday of each month at Newlands Activity Centre, Romannobridge.
All advice is confidential, and anybody wishing to contact the bureau can do so by calling 01721 721 722
HOME ENERGY SCOTLAND
The Community Heat team have also partnered with Home Energy Scotland.
Home Energy Scotland is a free and impartial advice service funded by the Scottish Government to help you keep your home warm for less, whilst cutting costs and carbon emissions too.
Their friendly advisors support across a wide variety of subjects including energy saving tips, advice on renewable technologies and can check if you’re eligible for any grants or funds for energy efficiency improvements.
You can call them on 0808 808 2282 or email at www.homeenergyscotland.org/contact.
As partners The Community Heat Team can also make a referral on your behalf.
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
The West Linton Community Thermal Action Team have collaborated with Bruntsfield Area Net Zero Action Initiative (BANZAI) in Edinburgh. We have provided them with aerial thermal images, carried out a demonstration Heat survey and shared our project structure with this like-minded organisation, who are wanting to set up a similar thermal project in their own community.
Run by Linlithgow Community Development Trust, Linlith-Go-Solar is a community energy enterprise project, using solar energy to benefit the town of Linlithgow. Solar panels have been put up in various locations throughout the town. The energy generated is sold to the local community, with the surplus revenue used to help fund community initiatives.