The Crisis and Resilience Fund is funded by the Government to help vulnerable households. Find out how it will be used and find out about Housing Payments and the Crisis Payments Scheme.
The Government has allocated £11.276m over the next three years to Knowsley Council through its new Crisis and Resilience Fund to help communities in need.
Around £3.7m will be available each year and the programme comprises four strands:-
Providing support to those in crisis.
Providing financial support towards housing needs, to those who face a shortfall in meeting their housing costs.
Funding for services delivered by authorities or external providers to improve financial resilience. This will include funding to community food partners, debt and welfare advice, support to ‘at risk’ residents identified through Adult and Children’s Social Care Services, Council Tax Reduction Scheme, fuel and energy support and employment and skills support.
Investment in activities that connect and enhance the local support landscape.
This page will be updated as more information becomes available.
For further information, or to have this page provided in a more accessible format (such as Braille or EasyRead), you can contact the hardship team by email at hardshipteam@knowsley.gov.uk
The Council’s Emergency Support Scheme can help those on a prepayment energy meter, where the meter is about to run out, and there are no means to top it up. Apply online via fuel applications.
The scheme can also support residents where furniture/white goods can help them settle back into the community or avoid institutional care. Apply via furniture applications.
If you are in receipt of Universal Credit or Housing Benefit and have a shortfall in meeting your housing costs, you may be eligible for a ‘Housing Payment’. For further details and to apply, visit Housing Payments.
For support with welfare benefit and debt advice or to check whether you are entitled to any other benefits or entitlements, contact:
Website: https://www.citizensadviceknowsley.org.uk/
Branches located in Kirkby and Huyton.
WhatsApp: 0151 294 6309
Email: advice@citizensadviceknowsley.org.uk
Telephone: 0808 278 7839 (Adviceline Freephone)
Website: Home - Prescot & Whiston Advice Centre
Based in Prescot shopping centre
Telephone: 0151 443 4639 or use the contact form on their website.
For support with employment and skills, contact the Knowsley Works Information Advice and Guidance (IAG) team. The team can help you with:
To register with the service, you will need to call one of the numbers below to arrange an appointment.
Support is available if you are in an emergency situation and are unable to pay for food.
If you have a support worker or are receiving support from a local advice agency, please speak to them in the first instance.
If you are in an emergency situation and are unable to pay for food, Aid To All may be able to support you with a food parcel. You can contact Aid to All through their website here or by calling 07774558646.
The organisations below run food clubs or social supermarkets and can help direct you to further support. Please note, they do not provide food for free.
You usually need to become a member to use a food club. For a small fee, you will be able to chose 10 or 15 items each week. Food clubs are often open a few hours a week so check opening hours before you travel.
Social Supermarkets operate like shops where you pay for your items based on their individual prices. They are often open longer than food clubs and may be open several days a week. You are usually not restricted to a certain number of items in a social supermarket. The cost of the items is lower in a social supermarket compared to a usual supermarket such as Asda or Tesco, helping you spend less on your food shop.
Social supermarket open 9am to 3pm.
Food items to residents via social supermarket and essential box offer.
Halewood residents are those who can benefit most from this offer. However, support is open to anyone requiring help across Knowsley.
New Hutte Neighbourhood Centre
Lichfield Road
Halewood
L26 1TE
Telephone: 0151 443 2168
Email: admin@tdcaonline.co.uk
Website: tdcaonline.co.uk
Social Supermarket: Friday 10am until 3pm. Gates open at 9:30am and we say be on site no later than 2:45pm as gates will close at that time. Free refreshments are provided while people wait.
10 items for £3.50, 15 items for £5.00, 30 items for £10.00
The food club helps those people on low income. You will need to provide proof of address when registering.
We have free refreshments on a Tuesday 10am to 2pm. This is for people to come and socialise, and find out more about what we offer.
Free workshop every Tuesday morning at 10am. Each week is different but will look at herbs and the medicinal benefits of them. For example, showing how to make a tea and what parts of the body will benefit.
The offer in the community food club is:
Huyton, L16 3NA
karen.mower@knowsleycommunityhub.co.uk
07925529585 (email is the best contact)
Facebook: Incredible Edible Knowsley
Support to help families in hardship and food to support residents engaged with the Centre who are presently in need. Essential items to support struggling families (toiletries, cleaning and hygiene products).
Willoughby Rd
Huyton
L14 6XA
Open: Monday to Friday 7.30am to 6.30pm
Tel: 0151 489 2370
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/swansidecc/
Email: swansidecc@yahoo.co.uk
Support available through HIYA’s community larder ‘The Grub Hub’. Food parcels accessible to anyone in need and will include fresh meat, fruit and vegetables. Open to all Knowsley residents, with additional food support specifically for residents in the Hillside and Woolfall area. Support is offered to centre users and all local residents. Centre users come from all areas of Knowsley.
Hillside Ave, Liverpool L36 8DS
Email - hiya97@hotmail.co.uk
Phone - 0151 449 3688
Fresh food and pantry basics for struggling families seeking help and engaging with Homestart. Borough-wide but targeting Northwood and North Huyton.
55 Rupert Rd, Liverpool, L36 9TB
Phone - 0151 480 3910
Knowsley Disability Concern. Cost of living support for KDC service users.
263a Tarbock Road, Huyton, Merseyside, L36 0SD
Phone - 0151 480 4090
Email - info@kdc.org.uk
Provision of a stocked pantry of food and essentials for users of the centre – groups attending the centre include young people, older people and those seeking employment.
The Gate, 600 Princess Dr, L14 9NQ
Phone - 0151 480 1314
Email - l14community@btconnect.com
Social Supermarket open four days per week. Mon, Tues, Weds and Thurs 10am – 2pm. Centre 63 also provide free produce.
https://localgiving.com/charity/centre63
Old Hall Ln, Kirkby, Liverpool, L32 5TH
Phone - 0151 549 1494
Open Monday to Thursday, 10am to 2pm
Old Hall Lane
Kirkby
Liverpool
L32 5TH
0151 549 1494
Knowsley Carers Hub service users.
143 Bewley Drive, Kirkby, L32 9PE
Phone – 0151 549 1412
Email - enquiries@knowsleyhub.co.uk
Knowsley Carers' Hub - N-Compass
Twice-weekly food drop-in project. Northwood Together Community Group also provide emergency food parcels to residents in need. The food offer is supported by food donated locally, from Liverpool Zero Waste and Morrisons.
Quarry Green Club, Daleside Road
Kirkby
L33 8XS
Facebook Northwood Together Community Group
Phone - 07500 728327
For food over the school holiday periods, hot meals for the children and food hampers for the families in need.
Sanitary products, hygiene products and cleaning products.
Broad Lane
Kirkby
L32 6QG
Phone - 0151 289 0419
Email - southdenecommunityassociation@gmail.com
Located behind Tower Hill Primary Care Centre, you are welcome to park in the car park.
Sat Nav address L33 1XT
Email: info@theecotherapygarden.com
Our model is simple and designed to be fair for everyone. For £4.50, members can choose up to 10 items.
Our Community Supermarket currently runs on set days each week.
Thursday 1:30pm- 3pm
10 items for £3.50
Westvale Community Centre
Richard Hesketh Drive
Kirkby
L32 0TZ
Social supermarket hosted at the Prescot Community Church supporting residents in the Prescot and Whiston areas. Open Wednesdays and Thursdays 10:30am to 12:30pm and Tuesday evenings.
Open Wednesday and Thursday, 10:30am to 12:30pm.
Old Colliery Road
Whiston
L35 3SX
Phone: 07967012042
Email - ianmiles@prescot.cc
Through community networks and referrals, Flourish and Succeed support residents in need with food and essentials (food parcels, toiletries and hygiene and cleaning products).
Phone - 0151 245 6111
Provision of a community food initiative on the site of the allotment. Food will be supplemented by local produce grown on site.
Fisher Place, Passageway (rear of Tesco)
Phone number is 07775681125
Email: denise_allen_98@yahoo.com
Friends of Halsnead allotments
Community food club with over 450 families registered. £3.50 for 10 items.
Park Pantry, Community Food Club
Opens each Wednesday 11.30-1.45
The Eaton Street Park, Eaton Street
Prescot
L34 8NQ
Facebook The Park Pantry Community Food Club
PFC Foodbank - The Salvation Army on Warrington Road is open each Wednesday from 12 noon until 2.00pm (Last Client 1.45pm). Note we do require proof of I.D. and address to issue Food Parcels. Also remember to bring your own carrier bags.
We are an independent Foodbank run by the Prescot Fellowship of Churches. If you would like to support the Foodbank with donations of food or money please contact Major Bryn or call at The Salvation Army on Warrington Road on a Wednesday between 9.30am and 2.30pm.
Warrington Road
Prescot
L35 5AD
Email address: prescot@salvationarmy.org.uk
Phone: 01514262278
Stockbridge Village Tenants Association
Tuesday 12 to 2pm: Food club
Wednesday 12 to 2pm: Emergency food support
Thursday 12 to 2pm: Food club
The Community Hub
The Croft
Stockbridge Village
L28 1NR
Tel: 07599 529170 or 07742056842