Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund (WH:SHF)

There are two new routes to access funding under Wave 3: the Challenge Fund and Strategic Partnerships.

Wave 3 includes a cost cap of £7,500 of grant funding per home. This cap can be averaged across homes in an application (including across different consortium members).

There is a £7,500 grant funding cost cap for low carbon heating measures in homes off the gas grid. Up to 10% of homes in an application can access a £20,000 grant fund per home to install low carbon heating measures if they are on the gas grid.

There is a requirement for minimum 50% co-funding for these options.

The Wave 3 delivery window is to run until 30th September 2028. Project grant funding spend must be aligned to the WH:SHF spend profile of 40% in FY25/26, 40% in FY26/27 and 20% in FY27/28.

Wave 3 Challenge Fund applications must include a minimum of 100 eligible social housing properties at EPC band D-G per application. Small social housing landlords (those who own or manage fewer than 1,000 homes) can apply with fewer than 100 homes. Strategic partnership applicants will be expected to propose projects of significant scale, which retrofit thousands of homes.