Sources of help and support
Other sources of help and support are listed below:
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
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
- Falkirk and District Credit Union (covers Clackmannanshire)
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
- Short-term Benefit Advances
- Social Security Scotland
Gender based violence
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.