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Finance Help | Resources & Services for Liverpool

This is a subpage of our Winter & Cost of Living Crisis Help Page for Liverpool. Click here to visit our Main Page where you can visit our other help pages.

 

Liverpool City Council | Energy grant for small businesses

Deadline: March 2025 or until the fund has been spent.

Liverpool City Council (LCC) have been awarded £200,000 from the government’s Household Support Fund to help Liverpool’s third sector organisations deal with increased energy costs during the winter months. Eligible businesses can apply for a one-off grant of £500. 

 

GOV.UK Cost of Living Support:

Find out what support is available to help with the cost of living.

 

Help for Households – Get government cost of living support

The government is offering help for households. See what cost of living support you could be eligible for.

 

Liverpool City Council – Cost of Living Crisis Resources

List of useful cost-of-living-crisis-centred resources from Liverpool City Council. This includes food support (e.g. Free School Meals, energy bills support and financial support.

 

Liverpool City Council – Benefits & Support

Advice and support on benefits managed by the council and its partners.

 

StepChange

This can give free debt advice and help with budgeting.

 

Lightning Application Portal

If you’re struggling financially and need help with money, you may be eligible to apply for support such as grants, benefits, help with bills and local schemes. The secure Lightning Reach portal allows you to find and apply for support from multiple providers, quickly and easily.

 

Tackling Financial Insecurity Together | Turn2Us

For general information about sources of support for individuals in need.

This also includes:

 

Get FREE MOBILE DATA from the National Databank

The National Databank is giving free mobile data to people who can’t afford their internet connection. This is particularly important as more people fall into data poverty and need to stay connected.

 

Tips for Pensioners for Surviving the Cost of Living Crisis

Tom from Equity Release Warehouse has compiled a list of useful Cost of Living Crisis tips for pensioners. It includes information around things such as if you qualify for a state pension top-up, how to claim a rebate on your council tax, how to apply for a water metre to save money and more.

 

GoCompare – Energy Cost Calculator

Ever wondered whether it’s cheaper to run a gas or electric oven? Or how about an electric blanket for 3 hours versus turning the heating on for 30 minutes? Well now you can find out.

At GoCompare, they have developed an interactive energy cost calculator tool to find out how much something costs to run. Use the calculator via the link below to pick the appliances you want to compare and select how long they’ll be in use for.

This tool could come in handy as it’s gotten more expensive for providers to buy energy, which has led to it costing more for us to power our homes and businesses.

 

Confused.com | Find Petrol & Diesel Prices Near You

Pop in your postcode and find cheap petrol, diesel and LPG prices near you.

 

Household Support Fund – Extended until March 2025

This fund was set up for local authorities to help support some groups with essential living costs – the government has announced a further extension to the Household Support Fund from 1 October 2024 to 31 March 2025.

 

Energy UK | Additional support for customers from energy suppliers

Despite rising costs and increased pressure, energy suppliers continue to increase the support they provide to customers, including additional funding for customers in fuel poverty. All major retail suppliers have their own funds, independently managed by fund administrators or in partnership with consumer bodies like Citizens Advice.

 

Mind & Money Programme

This is a project which supports those in the Liverpool City Region with the Cost of Living Crisis.

Mind & Money is delivered through a partnership approach, led by The Women’s Organisation alongside, Citizens Advice (Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens, Wirral), Pennysmart and the Vauxhall Law Centre.

The partnership has been carefully selected to ensure a high quality of service is delivered across diverse communities.

With it being winter, they are seeing more referrals for support with money management, bill reduction, and more. Other services include but not limited to;

  • Energy saving tips
  • Debt advice
  • Benefit applications and support
  • Specialist 1-2-1 support
  • Wellbeing support
  • Budgeting.
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