High energy costs mean a lot of housing charities are looking at how the homes they manage can become more energy efficient. This not only offer lower costs to tenants, it also address the climate emergency.

We are an organisation set up by Quakers, mainly funded by Quakers and run by Quakers. In addition, though, we are an organisation acting in accordance with Quaker principles and run along Quaker lines- using Quaker methods.

The Archbishop of Canterbury's Housing Commission has recently published its 126-page report entitled "Coming Home". Bill Bewley outlines the five core values that the report suggests should be the centre of housing policy in the UK.

One of the things that makes us different is that a trustee forms a personal link with applicants that we wish to support, and acts as a channel of communication during their relationship with QHT. We call this role ‘Trustee in Touch’.

At the Quaker Housing Trust we take energy efficiency very seriously for two reasons – the impact of poorly heated homes on the health and welfare of the people who live in them, and the wider concerns about the effects of global heating on this and on future generations.