Community Care Grants
Community Care help people to establish or maintain a settled home.
They are only awarded to people facing specific situations including those leaving prison, people who are homeless and receiving tenancy support; and those facing ‘exceptional pressure’ (financial pressure alone does not meet ‘exceptional pressure’).
They are normally provided in the form of goods such as cookers, beds, furniture and removal costs.
You may be eligible to receive a grant if you meet one or more of the qualifying criteria:
- to enable qualifying individuals who are leaving care or imprisonment to establish or maintain a settled home, where without a grant there is a risk that the individual will not be able to do so
- to enable qualifying individuals to establish or maintain a settled home after being homeless, or otherwise living an unsettled way of life
- to enable qualifying individuals to maintain a settled home, where without a grant there is a risk of the individual needing to go into a care institution
- to enable qualifying individuals to maintain a settled home in a situation where that individual, or another individual in the same household, is facing exceptional pressure
- to assist a person to care for a qualifying individual who has been released from prison or a young offenders’ institution on temporary release
Applicants must be 16 or over, in receipt of a low income and not have access to any other appropriate source of financial support.