What is the Big Switch Off?

The Big Switch Off is a campaign encouraging households, businesses, schools and community organisations across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland to switch off all unnecessary electrical appliances and lighting.

The campaign is taking place over the period of a week between the 12th and 18th October 2009 to help people save money, energy and the environment.

Over £1.8 billion worth of energy is wasted by leaving appliances on standby at work and home in the UK. By joining in, local residents could potentially save over £13 million.

Get involved

Whether at home, work, school or in your local community you can join in the campaign and switch off. For further information see:-

And we want to hear from you! Tell us how you are getting involved and what you will be doing for the big switch Off

Who we are

The campaign is lead by ENABLE, the Leicestershire Environment Partnership, and North West Leicestershire District Council. It is supported by Blaby District, Charnwood Borough, Harborough District, Hinckley and Bosworth, Melton Borough, Oadby and Wigston Borough, Leicester City and Rutland County Councils as well as Groundwork Leicester and Leicestershire and Rural Community Council (Leicestershire and Rutland).

Working with Central Networks, which supplies electricity in the Midlands, we will be monitoring the amount of electricity used during the big switch off allowing us to measure how successful we have been.