Household Support Fund October 2024 to March 2025

This fund makes vital financial support available for eligible families across Royal Greenwich.

Using funding from the UK Government’s Household Support Grant, we’ll be supporting schemes from April to September 2024. This ensures our residents stay warm, well and safe.

We’re sending payments to groups we know are particularly vulnerable to the ongoing cost of living crisis. It includes school holiday payments for:

families with children on free school meals
families with pre-school children under 5 years old
care leavers
vulnerable households with ‘no recourse to public funds’ (NRPF)
residents in temporary hotel accommodation

Free school meals

All children currently claiming means-tested free school meals in Royal Greenwich schools will qualify for a payment.

We confirm eligibility through schools. We’ll contact you by text message or email to let you know how you’ll receive the payment.

We’ll make 4 payments:

£15 per child for the October half term
£30 per child for the Christmas holiday
£15 per child for the February half term
£30 per child for the Easter holiday

Apply for free school meals through the Council or contact your school

Payments for pre-school children

For pre-school children under 5 years old, we’ll confirm eligibility through Greenwich Children’s Centres and early-years childcare providers. We’ll contact you by text message or email to let you know how you’ll receive the payment.

We’ll make payments at the same rate and at the same time as free school meal payments.

If your child is not yet registered at a childcare setting, find out more about our children's centres.

Care-leavers and households with no recourse to public funds (NRPF)

In the winter, we’ll issue payments of £250 to:

Greenwich care-leavers
households with no recourse to public funds (NRPF) – these households have an immigration status that prevents them claiming benefits they would otherwise be entitled to claim

We confirm eligibility through the Care Leavers’ and NRPF teams. If you’re eligible, we’ll contact you by text or email to let you know how you’ll receive the payment. If you’re not contacted and think you’re eligible, speak to your personal adviser or caseworker.

Residents in temporary hotel accommodation

We’ll issue weekly payments of £10 per person to Royal Greenwich residents that we place in temporary hotel accommodation.

If you’re currently living in a hotel and have not received a payment, speak to your Temporary Accommodation Officer.