250 Free Memberships of Oil Scheme

Thanks to funds from a new Department of Health scheme called WARM HOMES HEALTHY PEOPLE, ORCC Trading can offer one year’s FREE membership of the Community bulk oil buying scheme to 250 vulnerable people.

The term 'vulnerable' could refer to anyone who might be struggling to meet the cost of heating their homes to a reasonable warmth – families with young children, older people, those who have a disability or long term illness, someone with employment difficulties.  The offer will only be available until 31 March!

You may be reading this because you think you may qualify yourself, or perhaps because you know someone (or several people) who may benefit from the chance of a free membership.  

There is plenty of information on our website about the oil scheme so you can see what the benefits are and if you want to enquire about free membership please e-mail us on oil@oxonrcc.org.uk.  If you don’t have access to the internet, you can call us on 01865 883488, but please, if possible, we would ask people who can use e-mail to do so – it will make it easier for us to deal with your enquiry.

We need to know WHY the free membership would be a help – tell us a little bit about age, your financial circumstances (e.g. I’m unemployed, or have only my pension, or my wage is low), your household (eg I live alone, or have young children) and if relevant, whether you have a health problem.  If you are worried about the cost of your heating, please let us know how you deal with that – e.g. I can only partially heat my home, or I turn the thermostat down low, or I don’t turn the heating on.

If you are reading this because you think there may be people in your community who could benefit, please feel free to pass this information on.  You may have a good idea of who might benefit from this offer, but if you are unsure, you could try asking others (e.g. your local Minister, or the parish clerk) to pass the information on to people that they know.  We don’t want you to feel you have to ask for personal information from anyone.  Clearly we want these free memberships to go to people who need them, so we would simply say use your judgement.

 There will be other benefits to be had under the WARM HOMES, HEALTHY PEOPLE scheme (such as information and advice, fuel vouchers, insulation, practical refurbishments, food parcels) – details from the Warm Homes Helpline on 0844 887 0005.