Central heating grants

First Time Central Heating Grants

There are First Time Central Heating Grants available for installing central heating systems. In new homes that have never had a central heating system before.

Radiator in a warm living room
For homes with
No central heating
Who can apply
Homeowners & private tenants, 18+
To repay
Nothing

How first-time central heating grants work

The new central heating system needs to install to be eligible for the ECO Scheme for the first time. Central heating grants must provide space heating through a boiler.

The applicant should also receive one of the qualifying State Benefits, Tax Credits. Or Other Allowances unless they qualify under the ECO Flex Rules.

Funding

Heating Grants

We offer grant funding to qualified homeowners, tenants, and landlords to replace broken boilers, inefficient boilers, and new central heating systems. Some of these grants are also available for tenants who live independently. This project funded in full by the ECO Energy grant program.

Moreover, solid wall insulation also attracts grant funding, with qualified homeowners, landlords, and private tenants of residential properties receiving grants for the insulation cost.

Eligibility

Qualifying Criteria for First-Time Central Heating Grants

You must be a homeowner or be renting a home, and you must be 18 or older.

First-time central heating grants are unavailable to homeowners. Who rent their homes from a local council. Or a housing association and those who own their homes as part of a shared ownership scheme.

Either you don’t have any heating at all, or you have one of the following heating systems in your home:

The use of electric room heaters, including direct-acting heaters, and fan heaters. Or inefficient electric storage heaters can be hazardous to health.

  • Gas room heaters; including gas room heaters with fixed mains connections
  • Gas fire with a back boiler for heat generation
  • Solid fossil fuel fire with a back boiler for the combustion of fossil fuels
  • Electric underfloor or ceiling heating
  • Heating of rooms with bottled LPG
  • Room heaters using fossil fuels
  • Wood/biomass room heaters
  • Oil room heaters

How it works

From application to installation in four steps

We handle the paperwork and the funding application for you. You just need to be home for the survey and the install.

  1. 01

    Apply online

    Answer a few quick questions. It takes about a minute and costs nothing.

  2. 02

    We call you

    An advisor gets in touch within 24 hours to talk through your eligibility.

  3. 03

    Free home survey

    A surveyor visits to confirm what your home needs and what can be funded.

  4. 04

    Installation

    Accredited engineers fit your upgrade — typically within a few weeks of approval.

Find out what you're entitled to.

A one-minute application. A call back within 24 hours. No cost and no obligation.

Check if you qualify