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‘My local library is a warm space and they gave me some blankets’: a tenant’s experience of fuel poverty

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Christopher Burns is a kitchen porter living in Cornwall. As part of Inside Housing’s Give Fuel Poverty a Voice campaign, sponsored by Aico, he talks about his concern about paying bills next year as energy prices rise

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Meet Chris Burns, a kitchen porter in Cornwall. Watch his #FuelPovertyVoice video on concerns on energy prices (sponsored) @Aico_Limited

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What does fuel poverty feel like? Cornish resident Chris Burns tells @insidehousing as part of #FuelPovertyVoice (sponsored) @Aico_Limited

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Christopher Burns is a kitchen porter living in Cornwall. Earlier this year, he joined Aple Collective – a group of individuals who experience poverty and are working to eradicate it – to offer his artwork to explain his concerns for people with disabilities and how they often live in poverty as there isn’t the support.



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As part of Inside Housing’s Give Fuel Poverty a Voice campaign, he filmed his daily life and produced art to illustrate how it feels to live in fuel poverty, and his concerns for how he will cope in the coming colder months with energy prices set to rise again.

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