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Financial assistance

If you are a member and you are experiencing financial difficulties, whatever the circumstances, There for You can offer you support.

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Winter fuel grant programme opens for applications

Find out if you might be eligible for a grant of up to £200 to help cover the rising cost of gas and electricity this winter

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

There for You relaunches its COVID-19 response fund to include universal credit cuts

With rising bills and other financial pressures, you might be eligible for a grant of up to £350

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

NEC told: ‘We will hold government to account on COVID-19’

First remote national executive council hears tributes to UNISON members who have lost their lives during the coronavirus crisis

Article on the UNISON National site.

There for You launches COVID-19 response fund

New fund will help members facing particular need because of the pandemic

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

Coronavirus: UNISON helping members financially

UNISON’s dedicated welfare charity is still operating during the current health crisis and is asking branches for financial support

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

Never too big to care

UNISON is proud to be unique among unions in having a dedicated charity, There for You, which supports our members when life gets tough. But in order to receive that support, members […]

Article on the UNISON National site.

There for members – how our charity helped this winter

More than 600 UNISON members struggling to pay for their heating, have been awarded over £30,000 thanks to UNISON’s dedicated welfare charity, There For You.

Article on the UNISON National site.

Food banks hope to give Britain’s ‘hidden poor’ a festive Christmas

“A lady came to the food bank and asked me if we were going to be open just before Christmas. When I said no, she said, ‘Oh well, that’s bread and sardines for Christmas dinner […]

Magazine, moving on the UNISON National site.

UNISON calls for energy equality for the UK’s worst-off users

‘Thousands die each winter because they cannot afford to heat their homes’, union and campaign group Fuel Poverty Action warn

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

Nursing professionals ‘more likely to experience domestic abuse’

Cavell Trust research shows importance of union’s support for members as well as campaigning and negotiation on ‘an issue for everyone’

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

There for You: domestic violence

UNISON offered a lifeline for a member who felt a prisoner in her own home

Magazine on the UNISON National site.

Countdown to Christmas – the rise and rise of the food bank

UNISON is campaigning to change the government's welfare reforms so that vulnerable and low-paid families are lifted out of poverty and the reliance on food […]

Article on the UNISON National site.