TAMar
ENergy fest
2024
Butcher’s Hall, Tavistock
Saturday 9th November
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. 9th from 10:00 until 15:00.
Our theme is “Making your home – Cosy, Efficient and Future Ready“
This is a free, family friendly event, suitable for all ages.
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Saturday 9th November
10:00-15:00
Butcher’s Hall, Tavistock
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 cosy, efficient and future ready; 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 art area for younger attendees, a family energy quiz, and our climate and biodiversity tree.
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 café.
Activities for children … and adults include:
- Creative colouring fun for families.
- Climate and Biodiversity Tree – where you can pledge sustainable commitments to your future self and display them on our tree.
- What is watt? – Race family and friends to match up everyday electric household items with the amount of power they use.
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 – Renewable Energy and Retrofit Specialists
- West Devon Borough Council
- South West Water
- Devon Wildlife Trust – Protecting wildlife for the future
- Tamar Valley National Landscape – Conserving and enhancing our landscape’s natural beauty
- NEA (National Energy Action) – Action for Warm Homes
- Target CO2 – Retrofit Experts in Insulation, Heating, and Renewables
- The Fell Partnership – The official distributor in South West England for NUDURA Insulated Concrete Forms (ICF)
- Bramhill Traditional Specialist Builders – Restoration and Conservation of Listed and Heritage Buildings
- Metalectrique – Innovative Research and Development of Zero CO2, safe, long-range energy technology
- Kensa – The UK’s Leading Ground Source Heat Pump Specialists
- Transition Tavistock – Working towards a sustainable future for Tavistock and District
- Tavistock Library
- Tavy Rail – focused on the full restoration of rail services to Tavistock
- Dartmoor Photography – Our event photographer
- With information and displays from Lendology, Studio Skein, Navigate, Jack Morewood, Energy Saving Devon, and Devon Climate Emergency.
& more… We’ll also have our own advisors on hand to share their knowledge with you and our information displays for you to browse.
Our Tamar Energy Community displays include:
- Practical Energy Advice
- Retrofit Services
- Future-Proof your home
- Warmer Bedford Cottages
- Open Homes
- Community Solar
- Carbon Zero Homes Project
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.
