Rotherham: £2m Winter Help Fund.

Just over £2m will be spent supporting the vulnerable within Rotherham due to the cost-of-living crisis within the U.K.

The funds will mainly be spent towards vouchers on food for the kids who are on free school meals and then also support those who are currently struggling to keep up with the energy bills.

Additional funds will also be going towards young people leaving care and provide more tinned goods for food banks, this money will come from the Government’s Household Support Fund.

Within a Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council Report, it’s confirmed that they will be spending £1.4m on supporting the vulnerable residents on their energy bills. More within the report, the authority will be providing supermarket vouchers to children on the free school meals scheme until Easter 2023, for covering the school holidays, it has said to cost the council £899,000.

In addition to that, vulnerable families will also be receiving £30,000 total funding for over Christmas. Along with the food banks receiving £90,000 in funding.

Rotherham’s Trussell Trust food bank has commented on how it has been able to support 1,908 clients since April and given out almost four tonnes of food since August.

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