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Description

Learn about fuel poverty and how we can help reduce it in this fast, fun, cups and saucers game.

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Cones or pieces or paper with an X on one side

Instructions

Before you begin
Use the safety checklist to help you plan and risk assess your activity. Additional help to carry out your risk assessment, including examples can be found here. Don’t forget to make sure all young people and adults involved in the activity know how to take part safely.
Make sure you’ll have enough adult helpers. You may need some parents and carers to help out if you’re short on helpers.
Scatter your cones or pieces of paper around your play space. There needs to be one for each young person playing the game.
Ensure half the cones are the right way up and the other half are upside down. Alternatively, make sure half the pieces of paper are showing the ‘X’ and half are blank.
Set the Scene
Gather the group together and ask the young people what they think fuel poverty is. Explain that fuel poverty’s about people not having enough money to be able to afford to properly heat where they live.
Discuss with the group ways we can reduce our energy bills.
Explain that one of the easiest ways people can save money on their energy bills is by ensuring lights and sockets are switched off when they’re not being used.
Play the game
Spilt the group into two teams. One team will be the ‘adults’ and the other will be ‘kids’.
Explain that the ‘adults’ are trying to turn all the lights off. The adults will do this by turning as many cones as possible the right way up or by turning over the piece of paper to show the ‘X’.
The ‘kids’ are wondering around the house turning all the lights on. They’ll do this by turning the cones upside down or by showing the blank side on the piece of paper.
After turning over a cone or piece of paper, you need to move onto another cone/piece of paper. People mustn’t move the cones.
Explain that the game lasts for one minute. The winning team’s the team with the most cones/piece of paper turned their way.
Reflection
This activity was about considering our energy usage, particularly thinking about fuel poverty. Reducing energy usage by it self will not solve fuel poverty but it can help us to manage it. How else can we help to manage fuel poverty? How can we help others do this too?

Why’s it important to try to use less energy? The difference that one person makes may feel small. Do you think it’s still important that we still all try our best to reduce the amount of energy we use.

Reducing our energy usage will make the world a better place for everyone. How could people remind others to use less electricity?

Everyone could think about the people they live with, the people they see at school or other people who use their meeting space. What would happen if everyone in your community became more responsible with their energy use?

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