Household Support Fund
The new and final Household Support Fund 5 (HSF5) was announced by the Department for Work and Pensions on 26th March 2024. It will run for six months until September 2024.
Funding is provided by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to local authorities to provide crisis support to households most in need.
Details of the support available under the final Household Support Scheme (HSF5) will be available in the coming weeks. Please check back on this website for details of when the new HSF5 scheme goes live.
Household Support Fund 4
The previous Household Support Fund 4 is now closed. This scheme ran from April 2023 to March 2024.
How did the scheme work?
Financial support was provided in the following ways for eligible Derby households in need of support:
Free school meals
- Over 14,900 Derby city households with children receiving free school meals were supported during the term breaks with supermarket food vouchers.
- Over 1,023,700 meals have been provided with supermarket food vouchers to households with children who receive free school meals.
Food vouchers
- The Winter 2023/4 online food voucher application form is now closed for applications as all funding has been allocated to eligible households.
- The food voucher scheme has supported eligible households in crisis with food vouchers towards the cost of living.
- Since April 2023, over 9950 households have been supported, with over £999,980 awarded in supermarket food vouchers.
Welcome hubs
The fund also provides financial support for up to 46 local community services and organisations across the city to further develop a community led cost of living support network that includes a warm welcome, hot meal, help towards energy costs as well as help accessing other cost of living support.
During winter 2023/4, the hubs received over 40,000 visits from adults and over 5,050 children.
Energy support
The Energy Support Fund 4 is now closed for applications as all funding has been allocated to eligible households.
The fund has provided access to financial support for help with energy costs in the form of energy vouchers to eligible vulnerable households and those in financial crisis.
Since April 2023, over 4,000 energy support fund applications have been processed, issuing awards for over £220,000 in voucher support.