Partnerships for organisations delivering retrofit
Helping organisations deliver retrofit more confidently - with practical tools, hands on support and a
network of people who understand the work.
Key Benefits
The reality of delivering retrofit
Retrofit rarely follows a clean plan - funding shifts, projects evolve, decisions made early carry consequences for years. And the people responsible for those decisions - your team - often have to act without a clear map.
The challenge is knowing how to move forward when the situation is unclear and having the confidence that your decisions will hold up.
Our partnerships are built around that reality. Partnerships bring together two things: a community of practice and the practical infrastructure to support delivery.
A community of practice
You join a network of community energy groups, charities, local authorities and consultancies - all actively delivering retrofit, all facing similar pressures.
Partners don't work in isolation. Through regular technical sessions, shared case studies and ongoing forum discussions, you and your peers:
- Compare approaches and test assumptions against real experience
- Work through edge cases and tricky decisions together
- Learn what has already been tried - so you don't have to start from scratch
- Build a shared body of knowledge that benefits everyone in the network
Over time, this creates a more reliable way of working. Insight accumulates across the network rather than sitting - and eventually being lost - within individual teams.
Tools, training and practical support
Alongside the community, we provide the infrastructure to support your delivery on the ground.
Access to Home Retrofit Planner
Our whole house retrofit assessment tool.
Training
Training for surveyors and coordinators, tailored to your team's needs.
Technical support
Ongoing technical support for modelling, scenario development and troubleshooting.
Service design support
Support with service design, business model development and supply chain coordination.
Communication guidance
Helping your clients understand their options and
make confident decisions.
How partnerships work in practice
Most organisations come to us with a specific challenge - a programme that isn't working as planned. A funding model that needs to evolve. A team that needs better tools and processes.
We start there - working with you to understand the context and identify what would actually help. Over time, partnerships tend to deepen. Partners often stay not because of a single tool or intervention, but because of the ongoing value of the network. They contribute their own experience, help shape how tools and approaches evolve and continue to learn alongside others doing similar work.
We keep the network intentionally focused - fewer organisations, stronger alignment and a shared commitment to improving how retrofit gets delivered. This means conversations stay relevant, practical and grounded in real delivery.
"It was really helpful to learn about People Powered Retrofit's journey...We really appreciated how open they were to co-design the sessions rather than just bringing a prescribed model. "
Helen Todd, SY Ecofit
Is this the right fit for your organisation?
Our partnerships are designed for organisations that are:
This means you might be a community energy group, community benefit society, cooperative, charity, local authority or consultancy. What matters most is that you're genuinely engaged in retrofit delivery and want to do it better.
Funding and access to our services
We recognise that organisations operate with different levels of resources.
Our bursary programme supports smaller community groups and early-stage initiatives, helping them access the network and build capacity without taking on unsustainable costs.
If you’re delivering retrofit (or want to be) and would like to make more confident decisions, learn from others or contribute to best practices, we’d love to hear from you.