{"id":67806,"date":"2024-10-30T12:19:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T12:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=67806"},"modified":"2024-11-07T14:34:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T14:34:21","slug":"cardiff-companies-are-banding-together-to-offset-rising-energy-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2024\/10\/30\/cardiff-companies-are-banding-together-to-offset-rising-energy-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff companies are banding together to offset rising energy bills this winter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cost-of-living crisis has \u2018made us poorer\u2019, shares local businesses ahead of the autumn budget<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/10\/Worklife_AlanyaSmith-Supporting-image_Floral-scale-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"A floral view of a public gardens \" class=\"wp-image-67826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/10\/Worklife_AlanyaSmith-Supporting-image_Floral-scale-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/10\/Worklife_AlanyaSmith-Supporting-image_Floral-scale-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/10\/Worklife_AlanyaSmith-Supporting-image_Floral-scale-770x385.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/10\/Worklife_AlanyaSmith-Supporting-image_Floral-scale-1366x683.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/10\/Worklife_AlanyaSmith-Supporting-image_Floral-scale-585x293.jpg 585w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/10\/Worklife_AlanyaSmith-Supporting-image_Floral-scale-1170x585.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/10\/Worklife_AlanyaSmith-Supporting-image_Floral-scale-293x147.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/10\/Worklife_AlanyaSmith-Supporting-image_Floral-scale-1400x700.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/10\/Worklife_AlanyaSmith-Supporting-image_Floral-scale.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/10\/Worklife_AlanyaSmith-Supporting-image_Floral-scale-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"A floral view of a public gardens \" class=\"wp-image-67826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/10\/Worklife_AlanyaSmith-Supporting-image_Floral-scale-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/10\/Worklife_AlanyaSmith-Supporting-image_Floral-scale-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/10\/Worklife_AlanyaSmith-Supporting-image_Floral-scale-770x385.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/10\/Worklife_AlanyaSmith-Supporting-image_Floral-scale-1366x683.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/10\/Worklife_AlanyaSmith-Supporting-image_Floral-scale-585x293.jpg 585w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/10\/Worklife_AlanyaSmith-Supporting-image_Floral-scale-1170x585.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/10\/Worklife_AlanyaSmith-Supporting-image_Floral-scale-293x147.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/10\/Worklife_AlanyaSmith-Supporting-image_Floral-scale-1400x700.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/10\/Worklife_AlanyaSmith-Supporting-image_Floral-scale.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Railway Gardens encourages green space and wildlife habitats through their community garden. Photo by: Hannah Garcia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Local businesses are banding together to save money in the face of rising energy bills, with suspense high in the build-up to Chancellor Rachel Reeves\u2019 autumn budget announcement today, on 30 October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amid the cost-of-living <a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2023\/11\/07\/co-working-spaces-in-cardiff-can-help-lower-energy-bills-this-winter\/\">crisis<\/a>, a Splott social enterprise has united local companies together to survive growing energy bills this winter. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between October and December, households and businesses will have to tackle a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-58090533\">10%<\/a> increase in energy bills if they want to survive the cold winter in Cardiff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The autumn budget will outline any financial support schemes available for struggling businesses, whilst also forecasting the state of the economy for the upcoming year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some Cardiff business owners have found resilience in forming Community Interest Companies (CICs), a model which sees businesses acting as social enterprises, benefiting communities rather than private stakeholders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greensquirrel.co.uk\/\">Railway Gardens<\/a>, a CIC site formally established in 2018 in Splott, has found that creating accessible, green spaces for social businesses and local citizens is effective in tackling the cost-of-living crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hannah Garcia, the 39-year-old director of Railway Gardens, shared that she hoped the autumn budget would provide sustainable, stable support for struggling businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe cost-of-living crisis hasn\u2019t just made us poorer,\u201d Garcia shared of the Railway Gardens visitors, \u201cit has forced many people to work much longer hours, and it&#8217;s taken a huge toll on mental health.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A survey conducted by accountancy firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwc.co.uk\/press-room\/press-releases\/research-commentary\/2024\/81-of-uk-businesses-expect-to-raise-prices-in-the-next-two-years.html#:~:text=Over%20the%20last%20two%20years,over%20the%20last%20two%20years.\">PwC<\/a> found that 81% of businesses expect the price of their products to increase this winter in response to rising energy costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Garcia added: \u201cCommunities will struggle to come together, thrive and design their own positive futures, while households are &#8211; through no fault of their own \u2013 battling insurmountable challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a id=\"_msocom_1\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cost-of-living crisis has \u2018made us poorer\u2019, shares representative from local businesses in Splott ahead of the autumn budget<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1198,"featured_media":67822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7935],"tags":[8108,20,6142,8109,6441,121],"coauthors":[8076],"class_list":["post-67806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-work-life","tag-autumn-budget","tag-community","tag-community-interest-company","tag-energy-bills","tag-social-enterprise","tag-splott"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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