** We expect to open a second round of funding in 2025/26 **
The Living Essentials Fund will support charitable organisations that are helping people with unaffordable essentials such as homelessness, food insecurity and warmth as well as debt advice.
We are seeking grant proposals which deliver one or more of these outcomes:
- Preventative solutions that help individuals build financial stability
- Support for community resilience, including mitigating summer heat or autumn/winter cold
- Basic services for those in crisis to prevent them slipping into greater need
- Schemes that improve home comfort and efficiency and address housing insecurity
The following are examples of the types of activities we are looking to see in applications. However, we welcome applications for activities beyond these.
- Debt advice, benefit and practical advice, particularly around reducing energy or housing costs
- Drop-in centres, including thermally comfortable spaces, lunch clubs, social clubs and family support groups
- Practical advice on keeping homes a comfortable temperature (cool in summer or warm in winter)
- Food and meal distribution, clothing and accommodation
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We are looking to support those who are already disadvantaged. This list is not exhaustive, but examples include those on low incomes, isolated older people, minoritised ethnic groups, people with mental and physical health challenges, asylum seekers or recent migrants, and people with a nomadic lifestyle, such as Gypsy, Traveller and Roma.
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