by Site Admin | Jun 20, 2013 | Food Banks, News Items
A Newcastle Food Bank is running out of food donations and is in crisis. The food bank, which is in Heaton has only been open a year and operates for 5 hours a week has seen a significant rise in demand for food in 2013. To read the full story please click HERE. To...
by Site Admin | Jun 1, 2013 | Food Poverty, News Items
It has now been reported that half a million people in the UK are going hungry. They are struggling to feed themselves as unemployment, rising food prices and, in particular, benefit cutbacks bite hard. 350,000 people – including 126,000 children – have now received...
by Site Admin | Apr 10, 2013 | Articles
Dealing with Debt If you, or someone you know is in debt then the time to take action has arrived. The first thing to do is to sort out who you owe money to, how much you owe and how much money you have coming in. If you do have problems paying creditors or suppliers,...
by Site Admin | Mar 9, 2013 | News Items
The current system of Council Tax Benefit (CTB), which is claimed by 5.9 million low income families in the UK, is to be abolished from April 2013. Millions of the poorest households face council tax rises because most councils in England will pass on a 10% benefit...
by Site Admin | Mar 9, 2013 | Benefits, News Items
From April 2013 a limit will be put on the total amount of benefit that most people aged 16 to 64 can get. This is called a benefit cap. At first this will only affect people in 4 council areas: Bromley, Croydon, Enfield and Haringey. All other areas will introduce...
by Site Admin | Mar 3, 2013 | Articles
Are these payday lenders a good thing or not? I suppose they are better than private loansharks who will happily threaten or beat people up for defaulting on a loan but I do question the ethics of some of them. It seem as as long as you can prove you are on benefits...
by Site Admin | Feb 26, 2013 | Articles
Some councils are now trying to help residents by bulk-buying energy. South Lakeland Council and Birmingham City Council are just a couple who are now helping local communities and residents benefit from bidding for cheaper fuel the same way that businesses do....
by Site Admin | Feb 23, 2013 | News Items
Well the PM finally got around to visiting two foodbanks last week. He didn’t bother to meet any of the public or are being forced to use the service – but that was to be expected really (he would probably have been lynched). 13 million people in the UK...
by Site Admin | Feb 23, 2013 | Articles
I rather suspect that this scandal will run on for quite a long time so I may as well put my views down in writing now. The horse is my favourite animal. I worked with them for years. I bred them, rode them, raced them, cared for them and generally loved them. But I...
by Site Admin | Feb 19, 2013 | Fuel Poverty, News Items
I don’t know about anyone else but I am so fed up (and quite frankly worried)with the news from OFGEM that energy prices might have to rise again. The fact that OFGEM have warned us of this will, in my opinion, just give the energy companies a free rein to hike...
