Social Housing Retrofit Accelerator BEIS
The Social Housing Retrofit Accelerator (SHRA) is the government-backed service helping social housing providers develop high-quality Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) bids.
Social Housing Retrofit Accelerator writes:
Social Housing Retrofit Accelerator is the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) backed service helping social housing providers develop high-quality SHDF bids. The Social Housing Retrofit Accelerator (SHRA) is a fully-funded support service to help social housing providers across England successfully bid into the Government’s Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF).
We offer a range of proven support which has been developed with and for the social housing sector by housing retrofit and grant application experts.
The SHRA is accessible to all social housing providers in England. Support provided will be relevant to the whole social housing sector, with a specific focus on those of you that can bid into the Government’s SHDF. If you are unsure whether you are eligible, please contact us.
Article appears on the IHBC NewsBlogs website dated July 5 2022.
For more information visit https://socialhousingretrofit.org.uk
--Institute of Historic Building Conservation
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