Beverly W

Now I come to think about, it my local council have done very little to support us at all.

For instance, last year, I was notified of a council tax rebate I was eligible to claim back of £150, however that's all I am aware of receiving support for also applying for it was a tad confusing.

As I've said previously, we suffered a non fault eviction, more unusual in manner to the normal procedures that take place in these circumstances. As such I applied for a discretionary housing award to help with additional costs incurred from moving & deposits etc as well as due to the extra rent we were having to fork out for. Although I was turned down for this because we weren't actually in debt. Nothing in place to stop frugal people from going into debt. Maybe if I weren't so terrified of owing money to anyone, we'd be in that situation ourselves.

I do know plenty of places applied & received funding to operate warm hubs but I wasn't happy or entirely able to access any of them.

Also on a similar note, the free food hampers that were distributed by my son's school up until last year, all switched. They started offering a food bank instead. I felt too degraded to go collect any items. Besides it was food items we really weren't keen on having more of. Always the same stuff, tinned hot dogs, jars of sauces, tinned potatoes, etc. So embarrassing to collect it, I've not bothered trying it out.