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About Retrofit Action Week (RAW)

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Engagement

Speeding up retrofit delivery

Retrofit Action Week is a week-long engagement campaign of events, activities and knowledge-sharing to speed up and scale up retrofit across the UK.

UK's largest network of low carbon housing professionals

Multi-channel engagement

Collaboration and knowledge-sharing

Retrofit Action Week is a regional retrofit engagement campaign organised by Low Carbon Homes which has created a unique network of individuals and organisations across the UK, all connected by their ambition to play an active role in decarbonising our existing housing stock.

Each Retrofit Action Week campaign has evolved into three core engagement components:

  • Online regional Retrofit Summit
  • In-person Home Upgrade Show
  • Hosted satellite activities - engage with your audience - showcase your work

The RAW approach is designed to maximise communication reach while providing the widest range of knowledge-sharing opportunities for anyone interested in scaling up retrofit.

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Regional Summit

Retrofit Summit LogoRetrofit Summits are one of the flagship events in the RAW weeks. We've staged over 20 regional retrofit summits across the UK – each in partnership with local government and regional stakeholders – and focused on the regional strategies and plans required to enable the speeding up and scaling up of  retrofit, locally. 

  • Impact-driven programme, featuring insightful sessions, case-studies and panel debates
  • Unique gathering of regionally focused retrofit professionals
  • CPD certificates of attendance available
  • Free to attend with super-flexible online format, with camera-on networking
  • Online Summit over 3 mornings
  • Free to attend
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The Home Upgrade Show*

The Home Upgrade LogoThe Home Upgrade Show is the 2nd flagship RAW event, *currently staged during Greater Manchester's week of action. A unique showcase of local and national retrofit product suppliers and service providers, this two-day sociable event plays a vital role in supporting the delivery of retrofit, locally, and building long-lasting relationships.

  • Over 50 exhibitors offering a range of retrofit solutions and service
  • Practical workshops and training sessions
  • Networking and social events throughout the day, with meeting and workspaces provided
  • Inspiring centrally-located heritage venue
  • Free to attend with easy access to public transport
  • In-person Expo, Talks & Workshops over 2 days
  • Free to attend
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Hosted satellite activities

RAW25 Satellite activity_icon_TRANSPARENT-1Taking retrofit engagement to stakeholders of any type, Retrofit Action Week satellite activities are staged by local and national organisations to extend outreach as wide as possible, but focused on the region.  

Format and content is tailored by you to best fit with your audience.

  • Activities can be created and led by any stakeholder, whatever their role
  • Any format of activity possible - it's up to you!
  • Central listing of all activities
  • Easy to apply - you promote, run and host it however you like
  • We list it and boost it to our regional audience
  • FREE for not-for-profit orgs
  • Events run by orgs & communities
  • Run by you - listed by us

Overview

Discover how you and your organisation can get involved in a RAW campaign

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Contractors or planners working in house
Partner/Sponsor

Thought Leader Partners

Showcase your expertise and leadership to attract new partnerships, while demonstrating your support for existing customers.

  • Get in-event presentations + resources + support + marketing exposure across RAW campaign.

Sponsor

Raise your profile, share solutions and generate new leads in a dynamic online environment.

  • Get pre-event marketing exposure across campaign.
  • Multi-channel engagement
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Contribute

Host your own activity

The RAW engagement campaign offers a unique chance to enhance your retrofit expertise and network - and involve others by hosting your own event or activity.

Showcase your work and engage directly with your audience to deepen their understanding of retrofit's benefits and their part in ensuring success.

  • Contribute to the UK's retrofit movement, support zero-carbon goals, combat fuel poverty, and boost local low-carbon economies.
  • Online. In-person. You run it. We list it.
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Attend

Come along

Join the online summit live online + a fantastic range of in-person and online activities throughout the RAW week - a fantastic way to increase your retrofit knowledge and your network.

We list all the events and activities including key details and registration links - you can pick and choose which ones you wish to attend.

All RAW events are 🆓 to attend.

  • Online; In-person
  • Free to attend
Partner/Sponsor

Discover all the opportunities to engage with our audience over 2025

RAW 2025 ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES

GET THE DECK
Host an activity

LIST YOUR GLASGOW ACTIVITY

LIST YOUR SOUTH WEST ACTIVITY

Attend an event

REGISTER FOR GLASGOW RETROFIT SUMMIT

REGISTER FOR THE WEST OF ENGLAND RETROFIT SUMMIT

Hear from recent RAW attendees and participants

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I wanted to thank you for your support for our event through Retrofit Action Week. The event was well supported, and I think we could probably run a mini-series on the content the discussions started!

Energy skills specialist - satellite event host, RAW Greater Manchester 2024
Summit Attendee 2

You guys are great, very inspiring, you've made the day for me, thank-you 👏🏼

Local Authority officer - attendee, Birmingham Retrofit Summit 2024
Architect (2)-1

A great event to attend. Met an awful lot of interesting people from a lot of different backgrounds, social housing providers, contractors, installers. It's particularly useful to see how different people can speak to each other about retrofit

Architect - visitor, The Home Upgrade Show, Manchester 2023
Architect (5)-1

Nice and compact…plenty of time to have a good chat with everyone - met some good people and you see the highlights. The workshops were very interesting which led to making some good relationships with architects and different builders and stuff that's going to be a good working relationship going forward

Housing officer - visitor, The Home Upgrade Show, Manchester 2023
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Thanks everyone for all the lovely conversations and talks - very insightful

Project Manager - attendee, Birmingham Retrofit Summit 2024
Engineer

My main takeaway today was meeting the guys on the CITB training stall - that was absolutely outstanding

Energy engineer - visitor, The Home Upgrade Show, Manchester 2023
Retrofitter

I think strengthening the kind of network of contacts and the retrofit industry in the Northwest was the most important thing for us. Meeting contractors and people who are interested in pushing retrofit forward, whether that be social housing providers, whether that be community groups, that sort of thing - looking at how it can be done at scale

Retrofitter & installer - visitor, The Home Upgrade Show, Manchester 2023

Meet the team

We are Low Carbon Homes - a small team of experienced and passionate communicators and event creators dedicated to helping everyone involved in UK housing decarbonisation at-scale.

Graham Lock, FOunder, Low Carbon Homes and Retrofit Action Week
Graham Lock
Founder
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Sophie Lock
Director
Stacey Pengelly
Stacey Pengelly
Events Success Associate