Surviving Winter appeal launched in Dorset
Dorset Community Foundation, together with Citizens Advice, is appealing for local people to help keep the elderly and vulnerable warm.
Dorset Community Foundation, together with Citizens Advice, is appealing for local people to help keep the elderly and vulnerable warm.
In due course the bus will visit many rural locations in Dorset, but initially it will go to Blandford, Portland and Weymouth.
This year’s Surviving Winter appeal run by Dorset Community Foundation in partnership with Citizens Advice in Dorset has been launched.
Dorset Community Foundation’s Surviving Winter appeal has seen applications soar by four-and-a half-times compared to the same period in 2021.
Are you a pensioner on a low income? If so, the government’s Household Support Fund is available and you are urged to apply before it runs out.
People are being warned to watch out for scammers, as 76 per cent of people in the South West say they’ve been targeted this year.
The increase in the cost of living, combined with spiralling energy prices has resulted in many people struggling with everyday expenditure.
People who don’t need their £200 Winter Fuel Payment are urged to donate it to the Dorset Community Foundation to help people in fuel poverty.
With guidance to work from home set to end from 19 July, Citizens Advice Dorset sets out what you need to know if you’re asked to return to your normal workplace.
Telephone advisers working from home, or in office in the future, are needed for the East Dorset and Purbeck service.