Category: Cost of living

68 Cost of living posts found.

Council’s Warm Welcome initiative continues into 2025

28/01/2025
Shropshire Warm Welcome graphic

Shropshire Council, alongside partners Marches Energy Agency and community groups, charities and the voluntary sector have come together to continue the Warm…

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Bookings now open for HAF (Holiday Activities & Food) winter holiday fun

05/12/2024
HAF winter activities 2024 logo

Bookings are now open for the Winter Shropshire HAF (Holiday Activities & Food) programme. Shropshire Council are working in partnership with local…

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Fuel Poverty Awareness Day – support and advice available to help residents keep warm and well this winter

27/11/2024
Fuel Poverty Awareness Day 2024 graphic

To mark Fuel Poverty Awareness Day (27 November 2024), Shropshire Council and partners, Shrewsbury base charity Marches Energy Association (MEA) are highlighting…

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Support for Shropshire households during winter continues, thanks to Household Support Funding

18/11/2024
Household support 5 fund graphic

Shropshire residents struggling with cost of living and affording to buy household essentials could receive support from the Government’s Household Support Fund…

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Council and Age UK Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin urge people of pension age to check eligibility for pension credit and winter fuel payments

17/10/2024
Saving energy

Shropshire Council and Age UK Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin are urging people over the state pension age to check if they are…

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Summer Holiday Fun in Shropshire with HAF (Holiday Activities and Food)

19/07/2024
HAF summer activities

There are still spaces available on the summer Shropshire HAF programme, at several holiday clubs, particularly in the south of the county.…

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Summer Holiday Fun in Shropshire with HAF (Holiday Activities & Food) – Bookings Open!

28/06/2024
HAF summer 2024 activities

Bookings are now open for the Summer Shropshire HAF (Holiday Activities & Food) programme. Shropshire Council are working in partnership with local…

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Support for Shropshire households continues with the extension of the Household Support Fund

29/05/2024
Household Support Fund success March 2023-March 2024 infographic

Shropshire residents struggling with cost of living and affording to buy household essentials could receive support from the Government’s Household Support Fund…

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Keep Shropshire Warm service is recommissioned with a fresh new look

26/03/2024
Keep Shropshire Warm's new logo

Shropshire Council are delighted to announce that they have recommissioned their dedicated energy advice service, Keep Shropshire Warm (KSW), to continue to…

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Book now for the spring / Easter Shropshire Holiday Activities & Food programme

04/03/2024

Following a successful 2023 where thousands of eligible children and young people benefited from Holiday Activities & Food (HAF) the Department for…

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