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)