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Period Poverty is the campaign focus for 2024/5

It’s Mental Health Awareness Week and the pandemic is having a significant and negative impact on our collective mental health. But don’t worry, your union is here to help

UNISON’s Covid-19 response fund reopens today, offering grants of up to £500 to help members affected by the pandemic. If you are a UNISON member, you can apply for the fund if your income has been affected in any of the following ways: You and/or your partner are currently furloughed; You and/or your partner are […]

Sixty-nine branches have donated to our COVID response fund so far – is yours on that list?

New fund will help members facing particular need because of the pandemic There for You is UNISON’s unique charity, set up to help members in difficulties – and this year, the COVID-19 crisis is making life harder for many of our already-stretched members. Because more of you are struggling, There for You has set up […]

UNISON provides free immigration telephone advice to members who have come to work in the UK have come to work in the UK from a country outside the UK […]

Staff working for UNISON Eastern region are gathering together everything from tinned tomatoes to dish cloths to help local […]

Welcome to There For You, the newsletter of the Eastern region’s welfare committee. It’s chock full of news on events and training opportunities this year, as well as information on loneliness, home takeovers and migrant networks. Welfare Newsletter autumn 2018

Get help with school uniform costs this summer form UNISON’s own welfare arm There for you

“My wages only just cover all the household bills. I had to get another job - five nights a week, in the afterschool club – just so I had enough […]

As Britain succumbs to a poverty crisis, food banks are calling on people’s support to help those less fortunate, including children, who are facing hunger. Between April and September this year the Trussell Trust distributed more than 500,000 emergency food parcels to people in crisis –  over 188,500 of them to children. That means that for the […]

Liz Potter was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer in the summer of 2013 at the age of 49.

‘The cuts have shattered our enthusiasm’

Disabled workers describe struggle to work 20 years after Disability Discrimination Act

UNISON has reacted with dismay to the Welfare Reform and Work Bill which had its second reading in the House of Commons earlier this week