Poverty
Turn 2 Us
Turn 2 Us offers financial support - including a benefits calculator and a grant search facility. They also have resources explaining benefits and grants.
StepChange (Debt Charity)
Debt, personal budgeting and credit advice
NHS Low Income Scheme
Help with prescriptions, dental charges sight related costs, travelling for treatment and more. How much help you get depends on your weekly income and necessary outgoings, plus any savings or investments you have at the time you apply.
Applications are done either online or via a form depending on your circumstances.
Money and Pensions Service
Money Helper service proving free and impartial money and pensions guidance for people. Support to prioritise bills and payments and advice to avoid missing payments. Advice to help incomes go further as well as around redundancy and self-employed rights.
Foodbank – Wadebridge
Wadebridge Foodbank provides emergency food, furniture, crisis grants, support and signposting to local people in crisis need. We are part of The Trussell Trust network of foodbanks, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK.
We have foodbanks in Wadebridge, Bodmin and Camelford, and cover a wide area of North Cornwall that includes Padstow, Camelford, Wadebridge, Bodmin, and all of the surrounding rural villages.
Foodbank – Newquay
Newquay Foodbank provides emergency food, furniture, crisis grants, support and signposting to local people in crisis need. We are part of The Trussell Trust network of foodbanks, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK. They have foodbanks in St Columb Minor, St Columb Major and Newquay, and cover all of the surrounding rural villages.
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Online benefits calculator
Cornwall Voluntary Sector Forum (VSF)
Cornwall VSF have collated a raft of sources of hardship grants, for individuals and families who are struggling with debt, and money worries.
Cornwall Rural Community Charity Better Budgets
Support with improving your bill paying and budgets, applying for and managing benefits, housing
Citizens Advice Cornwall -Newquay
Citizens Advice is a charity providing free, independent and confidential advice on a wide range of subjects for everyone in the community. Advice on benefits, debt, consumer issues, work, housing, law and much more
Citizens Advice Cornwall -Bodmin
Debt, Universal Credit, Housing, Law, Family Issues, Immigration. Gives people the knowledge and confidence to find a way forward.