The NGG Enabling Works Fund is designed to encourage more installations of grant-funded energy efficiency measures through the removal of barriers to installations such as inaccessible loft space or the removal of existing failed insulation.

In this way it supports households who cannot afford essential work not covered by grant funding.

The fund is administered by the Centre for Sustainable Energy (CSE) on behalf of the National Grid Group (NGG).

Applications to the fund can be made by from installers and from organisations helping clients to improve home energy efficiency or accessing funding for energy efficiency measures.

You can apply easily by completing our online form. Please note that we must receive applications for this fund, and any further information we request, before 31 March 2026.

Why the Enabling Works Fund exists

Some affordable warmth schemes or help to heat schemes do not cover the cost of enabling works or other costs. This could include schemes like the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) scheme, the Warm Homes Local Grant (WHLG) or others.

Works that can supported through the fund include:

• Clearing a loft space or removing loft boarding.
• Loft-hatch work.
• Removing failed insulation or rubble to enable cavity wall insulation.
• Lance installation or scaffolding for necessary access.
• Necessary structural improvements such as repairs to brickwork or floor joists.
• Lifting flooring or moving furniture.
• Low-cost work to enable the installation of heating measures or insulation (preference given to work linked to low-carbon measures rather than fossil fuel heating such as gas boilers).
• Repairs to doors or windows.
• Heating repairs (preference given to work linked to low-carbon measures rather than fossil fuel heating such as gas boilers).
• Measures to improve thermal comfort (internal doors, curtains etc).
• Other low-cost works will also be considered if they meet eligibility criteria.

How does the fund work?

Your client must live in England or Wales, but if they live in the Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) area of southern England you should apply to the SSEN Enabling Works Fund instead. You can check if your client lives in the SSEN area using their postcode and SSEN’s look-up tool. Clients in all other areas of England and Wales are eligible for the NGG Enabling Works Fund.

In addition:

• Your client must be eligible for ECO, WHLG or another affordable warmth scheme.
• If an installer is not yet in place, please check there is an appropriate scheme the client is eligible for once the enabling works are completed.
• The works you apply for must be necessary for the installation of energy efficiency measures, or provide a direct energy efficiency or wellbeing benefit for a client, and must not be funded by another scheme. This fund is intended to fund work where no other funding is available.
• You cannot apply for works that have already been completed.
• In general, we don’t approve applications above £1,000.

How do I apply for the scheme?

Please use the form below. Someone from the Centre for Sustainable Energy will be in touch as soon as possible.