Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund

The Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund Wave 3 is the new government’s name for what was known as the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund Wave 3. 

The fund supports social housing providers to insulate social homes, improve energy efficiency and upgrade heating systems. Together with match funding from housing associations it helps retrofit social homes and tackle fuel poverty for residents, deliver carbon savings to progress toward net zero by 2050, and grow the housing retrofit sector.

Applications to the fund closed on 25 November 2024 and successful applications will be announced in early 2025. Organisations will have until 30 September 2028 to complete works.

Ongoing free support for applicants is available through the Retrofit Information, Support and Expertise (RISE) service – formerly known as the Social Housing Retrofit Accelerator – including application support, training and delivery guidance to help social housing providers and their supply chains across England plan and deliver successful domestic retrofit programmes.

The government confirmed an initial £1.29bn of funding for the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund 2025-2028 during the 2024 Autumn Budget, with more anticipated at the Spending Review in the spring of 2025. We also anticipate further details of the government’s broader Warm Homes Plan. We will of course continue to feed into the design and delivery of home decarbonisation funding.

Greater Manchester Combined Authority and West Midlands Combined Authority areas

For members in the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) and West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) areas, funding will be devolved to the Combined Authorities. Therefore, for projects split across these areas and elsewhere in the country, funding must be sought from the appropriate scheme for each project. However, requests for a single funding source will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Please contact WMCA or GMCA directly with enquiries.

Who to speak to

Rory Hughes, Policy Officer

Rory.Hughes@housing.org.uk

Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund

Greater Manchester Combined Authority and West Midlands Combined Authority areas

Who to speak to

Rory Hughes, Policy Officer

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