Curtain donations needed

Curtain donations needed
 
Community Energy Action Charitable Trust is appealing to households replacing curtains to donate the old ones to the Curtain Bank. The Curtain Bank, a Community Energy Action project, fits recycled thermal and lined curtains in the homes of low income households to minimise heat loss from windows. However, without donations from the public the Curtain Bank cannot provide this assistance.

“We know spring is typically the season when households are replacing curtains,” says Gayle Katene, Curtain Bank Coordinator for Community Energy Action. “Thanks to generous donations of curtains last year we have been able to provide more help this winter than ever before. To do that again next winter we will need donations of curtains now.”

“There are many households in our communities who cannot afford to keep warm in winter,” says Bede Martin, Community Energy Action’s Chief Executive.  The Curtain Bank is one of the ways in which Community Energy Action addresses the issue of ‘fuel poverty’. The Curtain Bank does not receive any government funding and is financed through surpluses from Community Energy Action’s insulation installations and support from a Lotteries grant.

This winter has been the most successful ever in the Curtain Bank’s 15 year history. The Curtain Bank fitted curtains to 1470 windows in the homes of 342 households on low incomes. The amount of fabric fitted, more than 4600m2 would fit 10 netball courts.

The Curtain Bank has now closed for clients over summer, reopening again after Easter 2010. Curtains can still be dropped off at Community Energy Action, 198 Armagh St (back of the Orion building).

CEA can be contacted on phone 374 5698 or www.cea.conz.

For more information, please contact:

Bede Martin, CE, Community Energy Action

Phone: 03 363 9567

Mobile: 021 230 2908

Email: bede.martin@cea.co.nz

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