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Sources of help and support

Sources of help and support

Other sources of help and support are listed below:

Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)

• CPAG
  • Financial help in the early years

Citizen's Advice Bureau (CAB)

• CAB offers benefit, employment, debt and housing advice

Council services

• Clackmannanshire Works
• Financial assistance for parents and pupils
• Grant funding and financial assistance
• Homelessness and Housing Support
• Housing Benefit and Council Tax Reduction
• Information on services for people with a disability

Credit Union

• Clackmannanshire Credit Union

Government benefits and employment support

• Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
  • Short-term Benefit Advances
    • an advance payment of your benefit entitlement, following a new claim, when experiencing hardship.
  • Budgeting Loan/Advances
    • financial support with occasional expenses, if you have been in receipt of an income-related benefit for a period of 26 weeks or more.
  • Employment and Benefits support 
• Social Security Scotland
  • Benefits and Grants

Domestic abuse

• Information and support organisations

Families

• Family Fund
  • Grants to families raising disabled and seriously ill children who are aged 17 or under
• Home-Start Clackmannanshire
  • Support and friendship for families
• Information on services for people with a disability

Foodbanks

• The Gate
  • The Gate is a local charity set up to prevent or relieve poverty and improve the conditions of life of people who are marginalized, facing exclusion, vulnerable or homeless in the Clackmannanshire area.

Furniture

• Alloa Community Enterprises (ACE)

Samaritans

• Samaritans of Falkirk and Central Scotland