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News, Products, Services CIGA launches new informative website Charity begins at home The Cavity Insulation Guarantee Agency (CIGA) has launched a new website at www.ciga.co.uk The CIGA website, which regularly receives 10,000 unique visitors per month, is designed to provide information and advice covering Cavity Wall Insulation (CWI) to householders, specifiers and insulation companies, explain the benefits of the independent CIGA 25 year Guarantee and allow users to locate a local installer. The new website includes various features explaining what the guarantee offers and the different types of CWI available, plus a very handy ‘Find an installer’ page with a full list of all the registered Installers and a System Designer (manufacturers) page. It also incorporates a useful in-depth Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation (ECO) section explaining the current schemes under which CWI is promoted. Gerry Miller, Chief Executive of CIGA commented: “We believe that the new website retains the useful information contained in the earlier version but hope that consumers and industry experts will find it much easier to use. The site also includes latest industry news, a secure member’s area and live twitter feed and is reactive, allowing for browsing on a range of tablets and smart phones as well as traditional computers. Alongside the new CIGA website we have also updated the Cavity Wall Insulation Self Certification Scheme (CWISC) website, which follows a similar format.” Charcon, Saint Gobain and Progetika were just a few of the organisations to give development charity Ashanti Developments a warm welcome at the Ecobuild Exhibition in March. The charity was looking for organisations to help transform lives by funding the development of whole villages in the rural area of central Ghana where they operate. “The isolated, impoverished villages in this part of Ashanti have been hard hit by global warming,” says the charity’s founder, Martha Boadu. “When I was a child, cocoa was easy to grow but nowadays it’s almost disappeared. Water is becoming more and more scarce and we suffer a lot from malnutrition. Nowadays, life