Protection against fuel poverty in the UK

Mar 22, 2025Clean Energy, Inspiring initiative, UK

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Campaigns for protection against fuel poverty in the United Kingdom

Fuel Poverty Action is a campaigning organisation that aims to change policy in order to protect people from fuel poverty. The initiative aims to challenge energy companies on their pricing, and pushes for policies and actions that can provide home insulation and community-owned sustainable and affordable energy.

Mobilising activists
The initiative is mainly concerned with mobilising activists in order to demand change in relation to energy policies and pricing. It does this through planning monthly meetings in London; organising coffee mornings, information sessions, and protests; coordinating conferences on topics relating to energy and fuel poverty; distributing a weekly newsletter; and lobbying decisionmakers, for example through media campaigns, interviews and report production.

No leaders
The initiative’s organisation is decentralised as a key part of its organisational philosophy. The group is directed by the collective decisions made by all members of the group, and it aims to minimise hierarchies in organisation and thus does not have any official leadership.

Relevant groups
Fuel Poverty Action is inclusive and open to all. However, given the nature of fuel poverty there are key sectors of society that are particularly relevant to the initiative – those on a low income, disabled individuals, those with young children, and older people, as well as those in receipt of state benefits.