Our Funders
Cosy Homes is a key delivery partner for the Dunedin City Council's Energy Plan for objectives relating to making homes warmer and more energy efficient. The DCC provides crucial general operating and in-kind support to the Trust in the form of funding and technical assistance to the Project Manager. Cosy Homes and Dunedin City Council have a shared goal of ensuring all homes in the city are warm and cosy by 2025.
Dunedin City Council contributes $62,500 annually in matching funds to leverage Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority Funds through the Warm Up New Zealand: Healthy Homes programme. Cosy Homes administers the DCC’s contribution, with 100% of funds going to insulating homes.
Dunedin City Council contributes $62,500 annually in matching funds to leverage Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority Funds through the Warm Up New Zealand: Healthy Homes programme. Cosy Homes administers the DCC’s contribution, with 100% of funds going to insulating homes.
Cosy Homes is a key partner for Otago Regional Council's Air Quality Implementation Programme in the region's five AirZone towns: Alexandra, Arrowtown, Clyde, Cromwell and Milton. ORC provides operational funding to Cosy Homes for coordination of this programme in the AirZone towns, which promotes better air quality through the uptake of ultra low-emission burners and other clean heating appliances, and improved thermal and energy efficiency of the housing stock.
Click here to learn more about air quality in Otago, and the Regional Council's Clean Heat/Clean Air Subsidy Programme.
The Otago Community Trust is a philanthropic organisation which applies its Trust funds for charitable and other purposes which are of benefit to the community. Otago Community Trust has invested over $1.0 million since 2013 into its Warm Homes through the Funding for Change Initiative, a partnership programme with Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA). In working with local insulation companies Smart Energy Solutions and Technobond, over 1500 houses in Dunedin and across Otago have been insulated.
Chief Executive Barbara Bridger highlights that there are very good synergies between what the Cosy Homes Charitable Trust is aiming to achieve and the Warm Homes programme the Otago Community Trust already champions.
“It is often quoted that $1 spent on insulation saves $5 in health savings to families, this relates to reduced medical bills, less time away from work due to ill children. Therefore, we passionately believe in helping people across Otago improve the insulation and heating of their homes.” - Chief Executive Barbara Bridger
Chief Executive Barbara Bridger highlights that there are very good synergies between what the Cosy Homes Charitable Trust is aiming to achieve and the Warm Homes programme the Otago Community Trust already champions.
“It is often quoted that $1 spent on insulation saves $5 in health savings to families, this relates to reduced medical bills, less time away from work due to ill children. Therefore, we passionately believe in helping people across Otago improve the insulation and heating of their homes.” - Chief Executive Barbara Bridger
Other Supporters
Cosy Homes is supported generously in-kind by Aukaha, an iwi consultation service that works on behalf of manawhenua in the arena of environmental health. Aukaha provides administrative and office support to the Project Manager.
Southern District Health Board and Public Health South provide in-kind administrative and office support to the Project Manager, and connections into crucial health services in our Otago community.
