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Chance to chat about programme

Interested in the HeatHack programme? Need to know if it’s for you? You’re welcome to join Jean Carletta, who started HeatHack. Monday 31st July 2023 at 10:30am This is an online event via Google Meet. Who it is for: This brief introductory call offers a Q&A opportunity to learn more about what is involved when […]

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Energy Efficiency Event for community venues

Thursday 29th June 2023 from 10am -12.30pm – at St Ninian’s Craigmailen Parish Church, Linlithgow. HeatHack’s energy efficiency and thermal comfort event for community venues and churches will be taking place in Linlithgow. HeatHack offer a free programme funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering to help improve energy efficiency and thermal comfort in community […]

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Next round of training tonight!

From Swansea to Edinburgh, our volunteers have come to the next exciting training session. Well, they will be logging onto Zoom, but we’re still excited! If anyone is unfamiliar with how our programme works, we pair volunteers from a community venue with a local volunteer engineer, and then one volunteer from the venue gets some […]

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First sessions running – are you next?

We’re extremely proud to say that our first set of engineers and group leaders have been trained, and we’re getting reports that they’re doing their first sessions! Temperature and Relative Humidity sensors have been dispatched, session materials have been distributed and our games for session two are being printed as I type. It’s difficult to […]

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Programme Overview

We’ve had a lot of questions about the content of the training and of the four main sessions of the programme. This post will cover the training for Group Leaders and the four sessions themselves. Each of the four sessions will last two hours and you will be provided with detailed session plans describing how […]

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Maryhill seeks engineer

“We believe our faith needs to be lived out in our actions and so we are always looking for new ways to open our buildings to serve the community and welcome community groups. However, we are also conscious of our duty to care for the environment and so we are looking to discover how to […]

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Finding an Engineer

We’re very impressed by the engineers who have been signing up for the programme!  We’re finding community groups for them, but we also need to help community groups in other locales to find engineers near them. If you are a group without an engineer, we suggest you reach out through your community – notice boards, […]