Steve Gerrish Email and Phone Number

I’m lucky enough to have had a new career in later life. I was a freelance Domestic Energy Assessor from 2011 until 2020, and I was lodging Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) for existing dwellings (RdSAP), mostly to enable householders to claim their feed-in tariff for solar PV panels. (Remember that?). Since March 2013 I have also been carrying out energy assessments for new dwellings (new-build and conversions), making design stage recommendations to achieve Part L building regulation compliance, and lodging full SAP EPCs for ERS Consultants Ltd., a thriving local family business.After almost 4 years of semi-retirement, I have, with mixed feelings, finally retired from paid work altogether, and I left ERS on 26 January 2024.I have been actively concerned about climate change since 2005 when I stumbled across an Oxford-based charity called Climate Outreach and Information Network (known as COIN) which was set up in 2004 with a mission to engage new audiences on climate change. However my concern significantly pre-dates that. I remember reading about it in New Scientist in the 1990s and thinking ‘I hope that isn’t true’, and at the same time understanding the physics and knowing that something would have to be done about it sooner or later. That concern has been channelled into involvement in community action groups, especially Kidlington vs Climate Change (2007-2018) founded by my good friends Anthony and Janet.Redundancy in 2009 gave me the opportunity to volunteer for Climate Outreach (formerly COIN), which has now matured to become Europe’s leading climate communication organisation, helping governments, businesses, NGOs and grass-roots organisations to communicate effectively on climate change – and I am still volunteering for them! At the same time I pursued my interest in energy in buildings by studying for a masters degree at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales, which led to the opportunity at ERS.And now my task is to put to good use my 15 years learning about how to slow the flow of heat energy through a house, and spend my savings on thermally improving the 1950s semi that I live in. It’s almost as old as me, and I want to decimate its requirement for energy so that I can heat it with a clear conscience in my dotage, and pass it to the next generation as a 21st century house.(I should probably do some housework as well.)