SSE has shared £2.5m between eight* UK charities working to improve the lives of people living in fuel poverty.
Energy Action Scotland, Citizens Advice Bureau, Age UK, Save the Children and Macmillan Cancer Support are amongst the charities to receive a share of money. The money will be used for a range of projects including training for local energy champions, energy awards for cancer sufferers and a grant scheme for energy efficiency measures.
The SSE donation was been made possible by the creation of a Sales Guarantee Fund. The Guarantee, launched in 2011, reimburses any household customers who switched their energy supply to SSE after being given inaccurate or misleading information and who was disadvantaged as a results. SSE pledged to donate any balance of the fund to charities.
Will Morris, SSE’s Group Managing Director, Retail said: “In May last year, we announced that we would put the money remaining from the retrospective part of our Sales Guarantee to good use by donating it to energy-related charities.
“We’re confident that the money will enable them to do even more great work in providing energy-related assistance and support for many disadvantaged and vulnerable groups.”
Through the retrospective part of the Sales Guarantee, which covers claims dating from January 2008 through to August 2013, SSE has made payments of over £5.4m to customers and charities.
SSE’s Sales Guarantee, is the only one of its kind in the industry and it remains open as a safeguard for household energy customers.
* Save the Children, National Energy Action, Energy Action Scotland, Citizens Advice Scotland, Macmillan Cancer Support, Age UK, Citizens Advice Bureau and Chesshire Lehmann Fund all received a share of the £2.5m.