Aimed at helping businesses across Gloucestershire, South Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, the events provide opportunities to meet like-minded businesses as well as training opportunities.

They also improve understanding about Severn Wye's new Link to energy website - a network of local installers and tradespeople for local residents to search through.

Severn Wye's Neil Towler is helping to organise the events and manages the Link to energy website. He said: “The Green Deal aims to make energy improvements like insulation and efficient heating and lighting systems easier and more affordable for households - Link to energy provides an opportunity for households to make these improvements by finding local businesses to install them.”

Severn Wye has already run its first three events, and is hosting a further half a dozen in March - with more to come later in the year.

The next event for installers is a breakfast meeting which takes place on Tuesday 19 March in Wiltshire. This is followed by similar ones on 21 March in Cheltenham, and 27 March in South Gloucestershire.

For further information about these and other events and to book a seat, please email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , call: 01452 835086 or follow us on Twitter @LinktoEnergy.