Category: Finance, Grants & Funding

You can find all our links on our Signposting Directory for a range of different services, below you can find a sample of information that is available.

9 Lives Furniture 

Second hand furniture – Rickmansworth

Access to Work scheme

HM Government scheme which provides advice and support to enable people with a disability, mental health or physical health condition to start or stay in work

Acts 435

Grants and coffee mornings

Affinity Water – Low-Income Fixed Tariff (LIFT)

ENERGY BILL HELP

financial support for water bills – fixed water charges

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life (national) 

Funding

BBC Children In Need Emergency Essentials 

Apply for cookers, bedding etc

Beds for Kids

Benefits Calculator

British Gas

ENERGY BILL HELP

Buttle UK

grants for children

Cash for Kids

Charlie’s Gift (Herts, Beds, Bucks) 

Provides grants to support local children who face challenges in life due to health issues, special needs, bereavement or poverty

Charlie’s Gift 

Grants for children who we help face challenges in life because of special and additional needs, disability, bereavement and poverty

Christians Against Poverty (CAP) 

debt advice, counselling, budgeting, life skills, reduce bills

Citizens Advice 

Find details of your local centre

Citizens Advice 

Decide if a prepayment meter is right for you

Citizens Advice St Albans District

Consumer helpline offering free, independent, confidential and impartial advice on their rights and responsibilities. They can help with debt worries, benefits, housing and employment problems, consumer or tax issues, family and personal matters 

Cost of living crisis survival kit

Dacorum Community Trust (Dacorum) 

Funding

Debbie Harris – Disability Benefits Advisor

E.On

ENERGY BILL HELP

EDF

ENERGY BILL HELP

EMMAUS

help with homelessness and 2nd hand furniture

Exchange

Bishop’s Stortford Furniture Re-use Scheme with free local delivery

Family Action

practical, emotional and financial support to those who are experiencing poverty, disadvantage and social isolation

Family Fund 

grants for families with disabled children

Family Fund Service – BBC Children in Need Emergency Essentials Programme

Supports children and young people who are facing exceptionally difficult circumstances. The programme provides items that meet a child’s most basic needs such as a bed to sleep in, a cooker to provide a hot meal and other items or services critical to a child’s wellbeing.

Freecycle

Second hand furniture

Fuel Rights Handbook 

A free on-line handbook for front-line staff who are advising people facing fuel cost recovery action, disconnection or who wish to complain about the actions of their supplier

Fuelbank Foundation

Prepaying for energy but not having the money to do so means living without heat and light. The Fuel Bank Foundation provide people with the financial support and practical advice that they need to get back on their feet. 

Give a Dog a Bone 

Broxbourne Furniture Re-use Scheme

Glasspool Charity Trust (national) 

Funding

Go Compare

Price comparison website for regular outgoings: 

Grant A Smile

Support for chronic illness / help with shopping, gardening, extreme cleaning services

Gumtree

Second hand furniture

Happy Days Charity 

Holidays and day trips for young people and their families (with disability, DV, emotional issues).

Harpenden Trust (Harpenden) 

Funding

Healthy Start (NHS)

Help to buy food and milk for people who are more than 10 weeks pregnant or have a child under 4

Help to Claim line (Universal Credit)

Help to manage the cost of living – Hertfordshire CC

Find out what support you can get with the cost of living

Hertfordshire Citizens Advice Services (HCAS)

Hertfordshire Community Foundation (HCF)

Provide a range of grants to support the community and voluntary groups (eg. care leavers grants)

Hertfordshire Law Clinic – University of Hertfordshire

Operates in conjunction with local leading law firms to improve access to justice by providing free advice to the local community

Hertfordshire’s energy saving app

Hertfordshire has become one of the first regions in the UK to partner with Energy Saving Trust to provide an energy efficiency app to residents and help them make energy savings

Herts advice 

benefits, budgeting, benefits calculator, healthy start food vouchers, PIP, debt, fact sheets, ESA etc

Herts Frontline 

Find details on local health and wellbeing support 

Herts Help

Advice and practical help to manage finances and make savings

Practical & emotional support. Community Navigation Service. Carer support.

Benefits calculator, crisis support (foodbank etc) / referral to community navigator team (help people maintain their independence, health and wellbeing)

Money Advice Unit

Benefits and money advice from Hertfordshire County Council

Money Advice Unit

Mon-Fri 9.30-12.30

Money Helper

Free guidance on finances and debt 

Money Saving Expert 

Tips on how to stop spending and budgeting

National Debt Line

New Life Charity (national) 

Funding

Octopus Energy

ENERGY BILL HELP

Ovo Energy

ENERGY BILL HELP

PreLoved

Second hand furniture

Sanitary Products

Go into Morrissons customer service kiosk and ask for ‘Sandy’ to receive free sanitary products.

SARIN (St Albans Relief in Need)

Eg. If move to a new house and have nothing. Small charity – small one off grants available.

Scottish Power

ENERGY BILL HELP

Sebby’s Corner

Provide essentials to vulnerable families in need so no child goes without

Provides basic essentials such as clothes, nappies, toys and toiletries, birthday gifts

Shaw Trust

The Work and Health Programme helps people to find and keep a job, improves employment outcomes by developing necessary skills. It will supports people with a health condition or disability

Sports in Herts – Active Local

Provide funding towards membership and equipment to enable children to take part in community club sport

Spruce 

Stevenage Furniture Re-use Scheme

St Albans Old People’s Trust

Provide funding and grants for a very wide range of items and services

Step Change Debt Charity

coping with the rising cost of living

Stevenage Community Trust (Stevenage) 

Funding

The Buttle Trust (national) 

Funding

The James Marshall Foundation 

Funding

Turn2Us

Funding

WasteAware Reuse Shops 

Hertfordshire County Council scheme. Shops in Harpenden, Stevenage, Ware, Garston & Welwyn Garden City). If you are a worker supporting a family, please contact us to find out about free reused furniture from WasteAware

Wellfield Trust (Hatfield) 

Funding