Funding Boost Helps Ease Covid Debt
Residents facing financial pressure and debt as a result of Covid-19 restrictions can get the support they need thanks to funding of more than £500,000. East Sussex County Council is supporting organisations with one-off grants to help them offer advice…
Hungry All Year Round
The Hastings Foodbank, which has reported a shocking 87 per cent increase in use over the last two years, is making an urgent appeal for donations over the Christmas and New Year periods. Emma Harwood reports. Situated at King’s Church on…
Welfare system ‘forcing people to the brink’, says local advice agency
Survey reveals evidence of ‘systemic dishonesty’ in Universal Credit benefits means testing by Emma Harwood “Draconian” reforms to the welfare system introduced by the Conservative government are failing those who need it and driving some to the brink of suicide,…