How to Deal with a Forced Cost of Living Crisis 

Charities

Family Support

Safe families

https://safefamilies.uk/

The Organization for Poverty Alleviation and Development (OPAD)

http://www.opadint.org/

The Global Citizen

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/

World Vision

https://www.worldvision.org/

Food

Feed My City

info@feedmycity.org

Foodcycle

https://foodcycle.org.uk/

Trussel Trust (foodbanks)

https://www.trusselltrust.org/

Independent food aid network – links to food banks, food distribution charities and local support hubs

https://www.foodaidnetwork.org.uk

Clothing

Clothes banks

www.clothingbanks.co.uk/

Salvation Army

https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/clothing-bank

Clothes Aid

clothesaid.co.uk/

Energy

National Energy Action – helps vulnerable and disadvantaged people struggling with their energy bills

https://www.nea.org.uk/

Energy Trust – energy efficient advice

https://energy-trust.co.uk/

https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/

Debt

Turn2Us

https://www.turn2us.org.uk/

Step Change

https://www.stepchange.org/

Money Advice Trust

www.moneyadvicetrust.org

Money Wellness

https://www.moneywellness.com/

Social

Age UK

https://www.ageuk.org.uk/

Age Concern

https://ageconcernsh.org.uk/

Citizens Advice

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/

Survive and Thrive

https://www.family-action.org.uk/

Independent Age

https://www.independentage.org/

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

https://www.jrf.org.uk/

Christians against poverty

https://capuk.org/

Clic

https://clic-uk.org/

Changing Realities

https://changingrealities.org/

Housing

Acorn – national renters union for people in the UK

https://acorntenantsunion.org/

Acts 435

https://www.acts435.org.uk/

Shelter

www.shelter.org.uk

Crisis

https://www.crisis.org.uk/

Riverside A Bed Every Night Scheme

https://www.riverside.org.uk/

First Homes Affordable Housing

https://www.gov.uk/

Financial

Mental Health and Money Health

https://www.mentalhealthandmoneyadvice.org/en/

Money Helper

https://www.moneyhelper.org.uk/en

Moneysaving expert.com

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/

PayPlan, one of the UK’s largest providers of free money advice

https://www.payplan.com/

Health

Sense

https://www.sense.org.uk/

Scope

https://www.scope.org.uk/

Macmillan

https://www.macmillan.org.uk/

Young Lives Vs Cancer

https://www.younglivesvscancer.org.uk/

Kintsugi hope – mental health

https://kintsugihope.com/index.php

Alzheimer’s Society

https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/

Marie Curie

https://www.mariecurie.org.uk/

Mind

https://www.mind.org.uk/

Mencap

https://www.mencap.org.uk/

Helping hands

https://www.helpinghandshomecare.co.uk/

Samaritans

https://www.samaritans.org/

Repair Cafes

https://www.repaircafe.org/en/

Please know whatever you are going through, whatever you are facing right now, however bleak things look, you are wanted, you are needed, you are important, life would not be the same without you in it.

You are worthy and deserving of a beautiful life, never ever forget that!

You are eternally loved.