Emily Leonard, 25, helping Halton tenants save money (From Runcorn and Widnes World)

Emily Leonard, 25, helping Halton tenants save money

12:30pm Thursday 2nd September 2010 in

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A RIVERSIDE College graduate has landed a hot new job.

Emily Leonard, aged 25, will be helping Halton tenants to save money, improve their health and reduce energy consumption.

She has been appointed as a strategic affordable warmth officer by Riverside, one of the first housing associations in the UK to create such a post.

Cumbrian-born Emily, who now lives in Liverpool, said: “We already do a great deal to transform lives by helping our residents become more prosperous and to revitalise neighbourhoods by improving our homes so that they are decent, modern and warm.

“However, until now, the work that we do hasn’t been joined up.

“My role is to work closely with our asset management, community regeneration and repairs and development teams to pull it all together.”

Emily has been challenged to develop a national affordable warmth strategy, with local action plans to deliver the new approach at grassroots level.

She added: “Our aim is to ensure that all of our households are able to achieve and maintain healthy and comfortable temperatures at home at a cost they can afford.”

Emily joined Riverside in 2007 as a graduate trainee.

After 18 months, she progressed to business co-ordinator for the compendium group, a j oint venture between Riverside and Lovell, where she was responsible for business development including putting bids together and organising consultation events.