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Heating and Food

Heating and Food

There is assistance to help you keep your costs down and steps you can take yourself, such as joining up with other people.

Community spaces

• See our events diary for local weekly community spaces

Household Budgeting

• Work out your household budget (Citizens Advice)
• Budget Planner (Money Helper)

Heating bills, home energy efficiency advice, grants and fuel poverty

• Home Energy Advice Team
• Support with fuel and heating for Council and Housing Association tenants
• Energy Advice Scotland

Help with foodstuffs  and meals  – local food larders, lunch clubs

• 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.
• Alva Food Larder
  • Open to anyone who could benefit from help with food, kindness and signposting towards services in order to recover their lives with dignity.
• Hawkhill Food Larder
• Community Growing/Gardens  
  • Tullibody Community Garden Facebook page
  • Allotment Associations 

Financial assistance for parents and pupils

• School Clothing Grants
• Free School Meals
• Education Maintenance Allowances (EMAs)

Funeral costs

• Help with the costs of a funeral (Funeral Support Payment)
• Financial support within 3 months of your partner’s death (Bereavement Support Payment)

Furniture

• Alloa Community Enterprises (ACE)