Food vouchers and housing, HSF

Due to the funding windows set by the Department for Work and Pensions our funding available from 1 October 2024 to 31 March 2025 is now closed. The funding window will opening again early summer 2025.

If you are crisis and require food contact your GP Surgery or local school and request Foodbank referral.   

If you are in rented accommodation and struggling with maintaining payments on your rent contact your housing association for support. 

We are working on a delivery plan to cover the 2025 to 2026 financial year and once this has been approved the webpages will be updated.

Contact us

If you have a question email hsf@iow.gov.uk

We are working hard to expand the list of partners. More details will be added when they are available.

Help with exceptional housing costs for vulnerable households

The IOW Council's Housing Department will support vulnerable households with exceptional housing costs, where existing housing support schemes do not meet need, or for cases of genuine emergency.

The fund cannot be used for support with ongoing rent or mortgage payments. Eligibility for Discretional Housing Payments (DHPs) must be considered first, and consideration given to whether there is a statutory risk of homelessness and therefore a duty of support is owed through the Homelessness Prevention Grant (HPG).

Direct financial support exceptional housing costs, potentially including rent arrears but excluding any mortgage payments. The value of any individual funding award will be dependent upon individual circumstances.

Who is eligible?

The following households are eligible

• families on benefits or low incomes
• single households on fixed incomes
• care leavers with a tenancy
• households where fuel bills account for a significant portion of income

When this support is available

From 11 November 2024 to 31 March 2025

Where to get support

Visit our Housing Department webpages or call 01983 823 040