SHDF – Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund
The Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund is a focussed fight against climate change, demonstrating the importance of housing as a key component of global sustainability efforts. It is transforming communities, reducing carbon emissions and creating a better future for all through energy-efficient and environmentally friendly social housing solutions.
About the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF)
The Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) will upgrade a significant amount
of the social housing stock currently below Energy Performance Certificate (EPC)
band C up to that standard. It will support the installation of energy performance
measures in social homes in England and facilitate the subsequent widespread
adoption of decarbonised heating systems and help:
- Deliver warm, energy efficient homes
- Reduce carbon emissions
- Tackle fuel poverty
- Support green jobs
- Develop the retrofit sector
- Improve the comfort, health and well-being of social housing tenants
Around £1.2bn is available, which includes funding for the Devolution trailblazers. This builds on the allocations made under the previous waves of the SHDF.
The delivery window for SHDF Wave 3 will run to 30 September 2028. All grant funding for SHDF Wave 3 projects must be transferred to the grant recipient and spent by 31 March 2028, meaning projects can only use co-funding in the final 6 months of delivery.
Sykes Specialist Contracting Ltd has been pivotal to delivering EWI solutions on Retrofit projects across the North East of England with installs on Wave 1 and Wave 2 schemes with amounting over 300 properties benefitting from reduced heating bills and external façade upgrades .
