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eaga community fund was created to support community projects that educate, raise awareness and demonstrate community involvement in addressing environmental issues at grassroots level. The fund seeks to assist community based projects addressing environmental issues.

The 10 April saw the launch of the eaga community fund in partnership with Community Foundation Northern Ireland to support nine local charities that were successful in their bid applications. The nine groups are from varying backgrounds and locations throughout the province but all have the same goal to make their environment one to be proud of.

eaga are also working in association with Global Action Plan, an independent charity committed to engaging people in practical solutions to environmental and social problems, in order to raise awareness within their companies and to reduce their environmental impact therefore leading by example proving that everyone can make a difference.

During the launch the nine groups received their cheques for £1,000.00 to carry out the works in their community and they have also been invited back in September 2008 to showcase their works and update the community fund on how this support has made a difference to their community and their local environment.

eaga plc is based in Dungannon with over 300 employees throughout the North and South of Ireland
eaga plc acquired the White Horse Group (the parent company of HEAT Limited) in December 2006 increasing its growth in Ireland
eaga plc is the UK’s largest residential energy efficiency provider. The company is a leader in the provision of innovative and sustainable services, products and solutions that address the environmental, social and energy efficiency objectives of Government and the private sector both nationally and internationally.
Working in partnership with central and local government eaga is positioned at the heart of policy-making and front-end delivery of social and environmental improvement programmes. eaga operates across the UK and in the Republic of Ireland, India and Canada employing over 3,500 people.
eaga was established in Newcastle in 1990 to lead government funded efforts to improve the living conditions of vulnerable people living in cold, damp and energy inefficient homes across England. Since its inception, eaga has made a positive difference to over 5 million disadvantaged households across the UK, by installing energy efficiency measures and central heating.
eaga holds the contract to deliver the £1.5 billion Warm Front programme in England, the cornerstone of government's target to eliminate fuel poverty by installing energy efficiency measures in vulnerable homes by 2010. eaga also works with devolved nation governments to deliver similar schemes across the UK.
As a co-owned business, eaga is one of only a handful of UK organisations where every employee with over a year’s service is entitled to a share in the success of the business. eaga’s commitment to co-ownership is an integral part of the values that define the ethos of the business and what it means to be an eaga employee.
The Government has set targets for all local authorities to have all social rented homes meeting Decent Homes standards by 2010. This requires homes to be fit for habitation, in a reasonable state of repair, with reasonably modern facilities and services and a reasonable degree of thermal comfort.
Since 2000, eaga has invested over £3 million in the independent eaga Partnership Charitable Trust which funds research into solutions to fuel poverty.