Help with Money, Debt and Benefits

Find out which benefits and financial help is available if you are on a low income.

• Action Fraud

  Action Fraud is the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud and cyber crime where you should report fraud if you have been scammed, defrauded or experienced cyber crime.

• Age UK: Cost of living directory of support

  Information on cost of living support and what payments older people are eligible for.

• Age UK: Money advice service

  Money advice for over 50s in West Sussex Brighton and Hove.

• Chanctonbury Storehouse

  Food scheme run by Chanctonbury Churches from Ashington.

• Christians Against Poverty

  Debt counselling services.  Money management courses.  Life skills training courses.

• Citizens Advice - Horsham

  Advice on debt, benefits, employment, housing and other legal issues.

• Citizens Advice: Cost of living

  A dedicated webpage with links to cost of living support, including help with food, family, travel and health. Citizens Advice offers free independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities.

• Citizens Advice: Home energy telephone service

  Information and advice about energy problems, including bills, meters or what to do if you're struggling to pay for energy use.

• Greening Steyning

  A volunteer group in Steyning and Bramber with a climate focus. Part of the service is the Home Energy Helpdesk, which helps households save energy and reduce their carbon footprint.

• Horsham Debt Advice

  Free impartial advice on how to manage your money and how to deal with your debts and arrears. We can contact creditors on your behalf and try to agree with them repayment plans which you can afford. We can advise you on IVAs and bankruptcy. Office in Horsham.

• Horsham Debt Advice Service

  A charity run by volunteers offering a free service to advise on how to deal with immediate crisis and longer term debt issues.

• Horsham Matters

  This charity provides practical help and support to the community by providing essential food, fuel and shelter and working with partners to create sustainable solutions to wellbeing. Self referral or referral by partner agency.

• Horsham Matters: Crisis support

  Horsham Matters can provide emergency food parcels, help with fuel meters or with essential household items for families in crisis.

• Liaise Frontline Debt Advice

  Free debt advice, benefits advice and money management support. One-to-one debt and budgeting support. The branch in Pulborough covers much of the South Downs area.

• Military Covenant

  A service committed to supporting the armed forces community in West Sussex, including serving and former members, reservists and their families.

• Roffey Place

  Horsham District Council is working with local homeless charity Turning Tides to develop and open a new innovative service to support people who are experiencing homelessness. The new service is at Roffey Place in north Horsham and will provide high-support accommodation for up to 50 people alongside a range of on-site facilities.

• Southern Water: Financial assistance

  Southern Water offer a variety of support for vulnerable customers.

• Southern Water: I can't pay my bill

  This page on Southern Water's website explains the discounts available to you and how you might be eligible for help with your water bill if you can't pay.

• Southwater Community Partnership

  We are a group of volunteers who come together to organise a variety of events and celebrations for our community. We are currently engaging with the community to establish their ideas and aspirations for our community and help to implement them through collaboration with groups, businesses and schools.

• Southwater Pet Food Bank

  Help for families struggling to feed their pets. They collect unwanted and unused pet food to distribute (no live or raw food). Currently the pet food bank is not means tested, this is a service offered on trust.

• Stepchange

  Contact the UK's leading debt charity to get expert debt advice and fee-free debt management to help you tackle your debts.

• Sussex Green Living

  Sussex Green Living develops and facilitates community action: educating, engaging and empowering kids, families, communities, local government and businesses. We help people of all ages and abilities to work together so as to ensure resources are used sustainably and economically.

• Ten Little Toes baby bank

  Baby bank based in Cowfold, West Sussex, offering support to families and parents in crisis or facing difficult circumstances throughout Sussex.

• West Sussex Connect to Support

  Find easy-to-read information about services for people with learning disabilities on the West Sussex Connect Support website.

• West Sussex County Council Community Hub emergencies only

  Contact the West Sussex County Council Community Hub if you are in urgent need of food, medicine and essential supplies.

• West Sussex County Council Household Support Fund

  Support for the most vulnerable households with rising costs of essentials.

• West Sussex Energy

  Hints and tips on heating your home and saving energy. Provides householders, frontline works, councillors and health/community workers with advice on local home energy schemes and support services.