Tag: Independent Age

As part of its ongoing mission to strengthen the UK’s advice sector, national charity Independent Age has awarded £1.8 million to 13 advice charities. The grants will be distributed to charities across Glasgow, Newcastle, Manchester, Leicester and London who support older people facing financial hardship. This second round of funding brings the total grants awarded through Independent Age’s Boosting Advice Fund to £4.9 million. Funded projects will provide advice to support older people to increase their income and reduce their costs. This could be helping them to access financial entitlements,…

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New polling commissioned by charity Independent Age, reveals that a staggering 82% of people think the UK Government should be providing more support to older people. The polling also shows the importance of this issue at the ballot box, with more than 4 in 5 (81%) saying that policies to support older people in poverty would influence their vote in a General Election. Independent Age welcomed the UK Government’s changes to the Winter Fuel Payment eligibility criteria announced last week, however receiving this money only puts many older people living…

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Independent Age launched the Cost-of-Living Fund in 2021 to help older people struggling to cope with the soaring inflation and living costs sweeping the UK after the pandemic. The national charity aims to combat poverty in later life and sees local organisations as a key part of the solution. The response to the initial £2 million fund was so overwhelming that a second round of an additional 1 million was launched in 2023. Across both rounds, Independent Age funded 77 organisations to support over 50,000 older people and unlock over…

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The housing crisis is forcing older renters living on low incomes out of their homes and the communities they may have lived most of their lives in, into less familiar areas that are typically deprived, says Independent Age, the charity supporting those in financial hardship in later life.   The organisation is calling on the UK Government to give private renters, including older people on a low income, greater security by:  passing the Renters (Reform) Bill in full as quickly as possible  committing to uprate Local Housing Allowance every year to…

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National charity Independent Age has launched a £2.8 million grants fund to help advice-based organisations reach and support more older people. The funding will be allocated to organisations in a number of areas of higher deprivation where a significant number of older people live.    England •        Bradford •        Liverpool & Knowsley •        London – the boroughs of Newham, Tower Hamlets, Hackney •        West Midlands – specifically the areas of Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton Scotland •        Fife •        Glasgow City •        South Lanarkshire •        North Lanarkshire Wales •        Cardiff and…

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