Foreword by Sarah Jones This has been a positive year for environmental, social and governance work at Anchor, with a successful bid for funding to retrofit homes in wave 2.1 of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund as part of the Greener Futures Partnership. The total award was for over £40.4m towards retrofitting 5,000 homes across the five partners, including £2.5m towards energy efficiency work on 341 of Anchor’s homes, bringing them up to at least an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) C.
As part of the Greener Futures Partnership, we are also exploring how to meet the national skills gap in the world of sustainability and retrofitting. This is at the same time as continuing our work in influencing discussions on sustainability at a national level on behalf of older residents wherever we can. We also fully allocated our Sustainability Bond, raised in 2021, by the end of the year, and appended to this report is our Allocation and Impact Statement. During 2022-23, we were developing our new Environmental Sustainability & Net Zero Carbon Strategy, which sets out how we will cut carbon emissions, protect our environment, mitigate climate risks and support sustainable lifestyles across our existing and new homes, and our care homes. The strategy was launched in the Summer of 2023 and commits us to the following targets: • We will reach net zero across all carbon scopes including our supply chain by 2050. • Our rented homes will reach a minimum energy efficiency level of EPC C by 2030. • Our care homes will reach a minimum energy efficiency level of EPC C by 2028. • We will aim to be net zero ready in the way we run our services by 2030. This means we will be net zero once all the energy generated by the national grid is renewable. • All our new homes will be designed to net zero from 2023 onwards, with delivery on site not falling below our ‘Green Line’ minimum standard. Work is already well underway, both on existing workstreams and developing pathways to implement our strategy. We are continuing to embed environmental sustainability into every aspect of Anchor’s work. All of the work described in this report is focussed on ensuring that current and future generations of Anchor residents are able to love living in later life. Our residents have been involved in developing the new sustainability strategy from the start. Residents’ enthusiasm and commitment to Anchor doing more has been inspiring and heartening, challenging us to enable current and future generations to love living in later life.
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