Cost of Living Grants Fund for Older People from Independent Age
There is a new Cost of Living Grants Fund for Older People from Independent Age. The fund has a short application window and the deadline is this Friday, 16 September.
There are 25 grants available of £40,000 each for charities and community organisations across the UK, with funding intended to ‘get more money into the pockets of older people and help ensure they do not have to choose between buying food to eat and heating their homes this winter’.
The funding is intended for projects such as the following:
Advice and information initiatives – such as helplines, drop-in sessions or community outreach work – that provide guidance to establish whether someone is entitled to relevant benefits.
Active support programmes that, through guidance to fill in forms and the like, help over 65s to claim benefits they are entitled to.
Budgeting advice and/or support to access better energy deals.
Debt advice, where an organisation is appropriately registered to give this.
Short-term help, such as access to grants to deal with one-off costs or emergencies or subsidised property maintenance, for older people already struggling financially.