Move over Weight Watchers, there’s a new club in town and it’s all about helping you save £s of energy rather than losing Ibs of fat… Enter ‘Watt Watchers’ - a new club set up by a small parish in Hertfordshire (the quaintly named Brickendon Liberty), in the UK, which aims to help members cut carbon emissions.

But, rather than actually weighing themselves, members will ‘weigh in’ their electricity bills at quarterly meetings - and compete to win a prize as the ‘slimmer of the quarter’ for the largest % Kwh (kilowatt hour) household electricity reduction, sharing information on what has worked best.

The parish council has been awarded £6,924 to provide all Watt Watchers households with British-made ‘eco-eye’ real-time electricity monitors (usually cost £49.99).

Sounds like a cracking idea - nothing like a room full of energy-saving enthusiasts waiting to name and shame to make you think twice about using that extra lamp or 5, eh? Here at SOPHYTO we shall be forming our own energy-saving club to make sure everyone in the team is on the green track. We’re a competitive bunch, you see, so any excuse really…