TAMar
ENergy fest
2023
Tavistock Butchers HallÂ
Saturday 11th NovemberÂ
10:00-15:00.
With ever increasing energy prices, now may seem a good time to consider options within your home and/or business for addressing energy efficiency … and retrofitting to improve the buildings performance, cost of heating and levels of comfort.
With this in mind, we look forward to welcoming you to Butchers’ Hall in Tavistock on Saturday Nov. 11th from 10:00 until 15:00.
This is a free, family friendly event, suitable for all ages.
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Saturday 11th November
10:00-15:00
Tavistock Butchers HallÂ
We’ll have a mixture of fun activities, short talks, advice stands, displays, and exhibitors providing information about how to retrofit your home, business or organisation, make them more energy efficient, warm and comfortable; how to reduce your energy bills; generate your own energy; and what you can do to reduce your carbon impact and do ‘your bit’ to progress towards net zero.
Open Homes network
We’ll also have a display of our Open Homes network featuring householders who have undertaken their own projects and are happy to share their experiences and lessons learnt, good and bad.
Activities
Activities will include an interactive smart meter display, an art activity, a family energy quiz and we hope, an activity with our community gardeners.
You can buy competitively priced LED bulbs; and have a breather and enjoy a drink and home-made cake from our refreshment stand at our energy cafe.
Activities for children … and adults include:
- Interactive smart meter display
- Tavistock’s Energy Future – participative art
- What is watt?
- How energetic are you?
exhibitors & Displays
We’ll have experts from a number of organisations and our own advisors to share their knowledge with you. We’ll keep you updated on our exhibitors as they confirm.
Our exhibitors include:
- Dartmoor Energy –Â
- NEA (National Energy Action) – Action for Warm Homes
- Transition Tavistock – Working towards a sustainable future for Tavistock and District
- Devon Wildlife Trust – Protecting wildlife for the future
- Tavistock Neighbourhood Plan
- South West Water
 Our Tamar Energy Community displays include:
- Practical Energy Advice
- Warmer Bedford Cottages
- Retrofit for Warmer Healthier Homes
- Smart Meters
- Community Solar
- Power Allotments
If you’d like to exhibit, or help us out and volunteer on the day, OR YOU’D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT US please get in touch.
More about our Exhibitors
Nathan McCarter Joinery – Artisan creators of beautifully bespoke doors and windows
A name synonymous with quality, Nathan McCarter Joinery is a humble, yet progressive joinery business. In creating bespoke and handcrafted timber doors and windows, we give our discerning customers excellence of quality and service from concept to completion and aftercare.
Aiming to create perfection in every door and window, we combine period design and styling with traditional, handcrafted expertise that sits perfectly with your interior decor and exterior architecture.
From modern homes and traditional or listed buildings to renovation or refurbishment projects, our bespoke service brings together master craftsmen, traditional methods, and contemporary tooling for your own personal requirements.
New Generation Energy – Renewable Energy Solutions
Designing, supplying, installing and maintaining bespoke renewable energy systems for the past nine years with an emphasis on customer satisfaction and an ethos of ongoing support and maintenance for our current and future client base.
Established in 2007 by Andrew Metcalf and based in the South West we have installed hundreds of renewable systems, from small photovoltaic arrays to large commercial biomass boilers and are MCS accredited for all our technologies.
Lendology cic – Lending decisions for people, by people
Lendology CIC disrupt traditional lending with our decisions powered by partnerships and people, enriching homes, and lives through affordable finance.
Working in partnership with West Devon Borough Council, we lend council funds to homeowners for home repairs, improvements, renewable energy measures and to improve the energy efficiency of homes.
Unlike other mainstream lenders, Lendology doesn’t use algorithms or credit scores. People make lending decisions for people. They believe that everyone should have access to a home that is safe, warm, and suitable for their individual needs and works across the community to enable this, reduce fuel poverty and establish the link between health and homes. If you are worried about the rising cost of energy, we recommend taking action now to ensure your central heating is working and that your home is as energy efficient as possible.
Lendology will be available until 14:00 on Sat. 12th November.
Lovely Savings – A Utility Warehouse Partner
Lovely Savings, a Discount Club helping families and small businesses save money on their essentials
Devon Wildlife Trust – Protecting wildlife for the future
Established over fifty years ago by a small group of volunteers, Devon Wildlife Trust is the only charity that exists to protect all wildlife in Devon and to safeguard Devon’s unique natural environment.
NEA – National Energy Action – Action for Warm Homes
From October, with the government’s price freeze in effect, National Energy Action predicts 6.7 million UK households will be in fuel poverty. It means they cannot afford to live in a warm, dry and safe home. National Energy Action is the national charity working to end fuel poverty in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Find out more about the challenge we face, the difference we make, and the difference you can make.
Jack Morewood – Research and Retrofit: How researchers are delivering warm, sustainable homes
Research and retrofit: I am a researcher and PhD student at the Welsh School of Architecture in Cardiff. I’ve held different roles in research and industry, and am at the Tamar Energy Fest to share more about how built environment researchers are tackling the big challenges facing our homes, including fuel poverty, energy security and the climate emergency.
Jack “Come and hear about what we’re doing to deliver warm, sustainable homes and where my research is going next.”
As part of Jack’s MSc he undertook an analysis of TEC’s Warmer Bedford Cottages work
Ben Watts – Kilowatts.io
Kilowatts.io gives you tools to better understand where your energy comes from, and costs, and the knowhow to cleanly generate more of your own.
We’re an independent software developer building apps and APIs to inform better energy decisions in complex and volatile markets. Our apps forecast hour by hour prices and investment returns for solar, wind, storage, heating and conventional energy assets, both at smaller at bigger scales.
Come along to try out our existing apps and find out more about the complexity of energy markets.
Transition Tavistock – Working towards a sustainable future for Tavistock and District
Local travel as it could be?
Our meetings share views on how easy it is to use sustainable transport around the Tavistock area and to nearby towns – and ideas on how it could be better and more inclusive. Frequent, well-connected public transport in all directions; easy to walk, use a wheelchair or cycle to reach facilities; leading rather than lagging in the shift to low emission vehicles for both personal and business travel? What changes would you make?
We’re keen to involve individuals, groups and businesses who want to shape this vision for mobility, influence decisions and encourage low-carbon travel habits. Whether your concern is potholed pavements or diesel fumes, cycle safety or bus routes, get in touch on travel@transitiontavistock.org.uk.
Tavistock Neighbourhood Plan
The Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (Tamar Valley AONB) is located on the Devon & Cornwall border. It is a special landscape that is defined and shaped by the rivers Tamar, Tavy and Lynher, and by the human activity focused around them. The area is famous for its mining heritage landscape and market gardening history, and is a haven for wildlife.
Events
Up and Coming Events
Sat. Oct 22nd – 10:00 to 14:00 – Okehampton Energy and Retrofit Fair – Ockment Centre – EX20 1AR
Sat. Nov 12th – 10:00 to 15:00 – Tamar Energy Fest – Butchers’ Hall, Tavistock – PL19 0AL
Our autumn energy advice and retrofit programme
Are you interested in energy saving and improving the energy efficiency of your home or business?
Come along to one of our events and have a chat …
You may be thinking about options for saving energy and improving the energy efficiency of your home (retrofitting), but not sure where to start.
Here at Tamar Energy Community we’d like to see what we can do to help. We’ve arranged a number of events to meet you and have a chat, with information stands to browse.
We’re kicking off in Great Big Green Week with an information display in Tavistock Library, available from Sat. 24th September through to Sat. 1st October. You can also find us on the 24th Sept at Tavistock Farmers Market (tbc) and the Okehampton Coffee Morning.
We’re going online on Fri. 30th Sep (19:00) with a discussion about retrofitting your home (or business) in practice. You can book via Eventbrite. Here’s the link: https://Retrofitting-Your-Home-In-Practice-Sep22.eventbrite.co.uk
Our first Energy and Retrofit Fair in Okehampton will be at the Ockment Centre on Sat. 22nd October (10:00-14:00). You can find out more here: https://tamarenergycommunity.com/okehampton-retrofit-and-energy-fair-2022/ ; and our annual Tamar Energy Fest will be at Butchers’ Hall in Tavistock on Sat. 12th November (10:00-15:00). You can find out more here: https://tamarenergycommunity.com/tamar-energy-fest-2022/
Do come along!
If you would like to host our information display in a community space local to you, get in touch and we’ll see what we can arrange. Email hello@tamarenergycommunity.com.
Okehampton Retrofit and Energy Fair 2022
Okehampton Energy & Retrofit
Fair 2022
Ockment Centre
Saturday 22nd OctoberÂ
10:00-14:00.
With ever increasing energy prices, now may seem a good time to consider options within your home and/or business for addressing energy efficiency … and retrofitting to improve the buildings performance, cost of heating and levels of comfort.
We look forward to welcoming you to our first Okehampton Energy & Retrofit Fair in the Ockment Centre on Saturday Oct. 22nd from 10:00 until 14:00.
This is a free, family friendly event, suitable for all ages.
We will also be joined by Lendology
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Saturday 22nd October
10:00-14:00
ockment Centre, Okehampton
We’ll have a mixture of fun activities, advice stands and displays providing information about how to retrofit your home, business or organisation, make them more energy efficient, warm and comfortable; how to reduce your energy bills; generate your own energy; and what you can do to reduce your carbon impact and do ‘your bit’ to progress towards net zero.
Open Homes network
We’ll also have a display of our Open Homes network featuring householders who have undertaken their own projects and are happy to share their experiences and lessons learnt, good and bad.
Activities
Activities will include one or two family challenges.
You can buy competitively priced LED bulbs; and have a breather and enjoy a drink and home-made cake from our refreshment stand at our energy cafe.
Activities for children … and adults include
- What is watt?
- How energetic are you?
Advisors & Displays
We’ll have our own advisors on hand to share their knowledge with you and our informationm displays for you to browse.
If you’d like to exhibit, or help us out and volunteer on the day, OR YOU’D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT US please get in touch.
Tamar Energy Fest 2022
TAMar
ENergy fest
2022
Tavistock Butchers HallÂ
Saturday 12th NovemberÂ
10:00-15:00.
With ever increasing energy prices, now may seem a good time to consider options within your home and/or business for addressing energy efficiency … and retrofitting to improve the buildings performance, cost of heating and levels of comfort.
With this in mind, our theme for our 2022 Energy Fest is “Retrofitting and Energy Efficiency Matters”.
We look forward to welcoming you to Butchers’ Hall in Tavistock on Saturday Nov. 12th from 10:00 until 15:00.
This is a free, family friendly event, suitable for all ages.
.
Saturday 12th November
10:00-15:00
Tavistock Butchers HallÂ
We’ll have a mixture of fun activities, short talks, advice stands, displays, and exhibitors providing information about how to retrofit your home, business or organisation, make them more energy efficient, warm and comfortable; how to reduce your energy bills; generate your own energy; and what you can do to reduce your carbon impact and do ‘your bit’ to progress towards net zero.
Open Homes network
We’ll also have a display of our Open Homes network featuring householders who have undertaken their own projects and are happy to share their experiences and lessons learnt, good and bad.
Activities
Activities will include an interactive smart meter display, an art activity, a family energy quiz and we hope, an activity with our community gardeners.
You can buy competitively priced LED bulbs; and have a breather and enjoy a drink and home-made cake from our refreshment stand at our energy cafe.
Activities for children … and adults include:
- Interactive smart meter display
- Tavistock’s Energy Future – participative art
- What is watt?
- How energetic are you?
exhibitors & Displays
We’ll have experts from a number of organisations and our own advisors to share their knowledge with you. See below for exhibitors list, and read more about our exhibitors here.
Our exhibitors include:
- Lendology cic – Lending decisions for people, by people
- New Generation Energy – Renewable Energy Solutions
- Dartmoor Energy –Â
- Ben Watts – Kilowatts.io
- Jack Morewood –
Research and Retrofit: How researchers are delivering warm, sustainable homes
- NEA (National Energy Action) – Action for Warm Homes
- Nathan McCarter Joinery – Artisan creators of beautifully bespoke doors and windows
- Transition Tavistock – Working towards a sustainable future for Tavistock and District
- Devon Wildlife Trust – Protecting wildlife for the future
- Lovely Savings – A Utility Warehouse Partner
- Tavistock Neighbourhood Plan
- Tamar Valley AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty)
 Our Tamar Energy Community displays include:
- Practical Energy Advice
- Warmer Bedford Cottages
- Retrofit for Warmer Healthier Homes
- Smart Meters
- Community Solar
- Power Allotments
If you’d like to exhibit, or help us out and volunteer on the day, OR YOU’D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT US please get in touch.
‘One Pot Wonder’ Slow Cooker Course available – save money on your cooking
Save energy and money through using a slow cooker.
Sign up to Learn Devon’s ‘One Pot Wonder’ slow cooker course. Learn more about cooking nutritious meals for the family with the provision of a free slow cooker for each family who attends a course.
The first course starts on Monday 14th March at Alexandra Centre, Tavistock from 11:30 to 13:30 with the second and final session on Monday 21st March at the same time and place. Book by Weds. 9th March 2022, to secure your place.
The other sessions and locations are as follows:
Bere Alston at the Parish Hall 13.30 – 15.15 on Friday 18 March and Friday 25 March
Princetown at the Community Centre 13.30 – 15.15 on Thursday 24 March and Thursday 31 March
Tavistock at the Alexander Centre 11.30 – 13.30 on Monday 4 April and Monday 11 April
Lifton at the Community Hall 11.30 – 13.30 on Tuesday 12 July and Tuesday 19 July.
To secure your place please contact Learn Devon at 01822 613701, text 0781 697 3926 or email tavistock@learndevon.co.uk.
Please let others know who may be interested.
Tamar Energy Fest 2021
TAMar
ENergy fest
2021
Tavistock Butchers HallÂ
Saturday 13th NovemberÂ
10:00-15:00.
We’re adopting the theme of the COP26 climate summit for our Energy Fest this year which is being held on the last day of COP26 fortnight.
We’re excited Tamar Energy Fest’s returning to Butchers’ Hall in Tavistock on Saturday Nov. 13th from 10:00 until 15:00 and we look forward to welcoming you on the day.
This is a free, family friendly event, suitable for all ages.
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Saturday 13th November
10:00-15:00
Tavistock Butchers HallÂ
We’ll have a mixture of fun activities, short talks, advice stands, displays, and exhibitors providing information about how to make your home, business or organisation more energy efficient, warm and comfortable; how to reduce your energy bills; generate your own energy; and what you can do to reduce your carbon impact and do ‘your bit’ to progress towards net zero.
Open Homes network
We’ll also be relaunching our Open Homes network featuring householders who undertaken their own projects and happy to share their experiences and lessons learnt, good and bad.
Activities
Activities will include an interactive smart meter display, an art activity, a family energy quiz and we hope, an activity with our community gardeners.
You can buy competitively priced LED bulbs; and have a breather and enjoy a drink and home-made cake from our refreshment stand at our energy cafe.
Activities for children … and adults include:
- Interactive smart meter display
- Tavistock’s Energy Future – participative art
- What is watt?
- How energetic are you?
Short Talks
@ The Energy Cafe – Butchers’ Hall Tavistock
There will be a number of talks through the day including the importance of whole house retrofit, how to deal with traditional and listed properties, understanding heat pumps and sustainable travel in rural communities.
11:00am – 11:30am
Energy Café
Sustainable Travel in Rural Communities
By Transition Tavistock
Its challenging to travel sustainably in rural communities. We share some of the areas we’re working on.
11:45am – 12:15pm
Energy Café
Whole House Retrofit in practice
By Kate Royston, Tamar Energy Community
As we’re encouraged to consider how to make our homes closer to net zero, a whole house approach may be the best way
12:30pm – 1:00pm
Energy Café
Understanding Heat Pumps
By Andy Metcalf, New Generation Energy
There’s a lot of talk about heat pumps at the moment. We’ll shine a light on key facts.
1:15pm – 1:45pm
Energy Café
Warmer Bedford Cottages – Residents Guide Launch
By Peter Smith, Tamar Energy Community
At TEC we’ve been working with Bedford Cottage Residents and others to produce a helpful guide
2:00pm – 2:30pm
Energy Café
Retrofitting traditional and listed properties
By Peter Smith, Tamar Energy Community
What to consider when retrofitting a traditional property
what is cop26?
exhibitors & Displays
We’ll have experts from a number of organisations including ZLC Energy, to talk about renewable generation (heat and power) and storage, Utility Warehouse to talk about their approach to managing your utility costs, and Devon Wildlife Trust addressing our ecological emergency. See below for exhibitors list.
We are hoping that our Local Authorities will be on hand to share their progress in addressing the Climate Emergency and ask for your involvement including an update on the Devon Climate Declaration.
Transition Tavistock, Tavistock Community Gardening and others will also be on hand with activities and options for more sustainable living.
If you’d like to exhibit, or help us out and volunteer on the day, OR YOU’D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT US please get in touch.
Tamar Energy Fest 2021 on Sat. Nov 13th
This year’s Tamar Energy Fest will be held on Saturday Nov. 13th in Butchers’ Hall, Tavistock.
The event is on the last day of the COP26 climate conference, so we feel its apt to embrace its theme of ‘Together for Our Planet’.
Find out more here.
If you’d like to get involved we’d love to hear from you.
We’re keen to hear from exhibitors able to share advice and support to for our journey’s towards low/zero carbon healthy homes, businesses etc. and/or support low/zero carbon lives.
We’d also love to hear from you if you’d like to help us organise and run the event and/or work with us in other ways.
You can download a Booking Form here as a word doc or here as a pdf.
If you have any questions or you’re able to get involved please email hello@tamarenergycommunity.com.
Retrofitting your Home. What’s it all about?
We’re being encouraged to improve the energy efficiency of our homes. What does this mean for me in practice?
We held a Zoom talk in late September to discuss the topic and to learn more about the practicalities of retrofitting your home, and the importance of taking a whole house approach.
You can download the presentation here.
We’re working with Devon County Council and our Community Energy colleagues across Devon to launch a Retrofit Service for Devon in spring 2022. This will provide a ‘one front door’ approach for retrofit advice and support.
If you’d like to know more, please drop us an email to hello@tamarenergycommunity.com.
It would also be helpful if you could take a few minutes to complete this Retrofit Devon householder survey to help us understand more about about what the levels of interest in retrofit across the county. You can find it here: Retrofit Devon householder survey (typeform.com).
