Community Support Grants

What is a Support Grant?

A Support Grant is intended to:

• Help people who are setting up home after leaving accommodation in which they received significant and substantial care and supervision (examples include leaving hospital or prison).
• Help people who need help to stay in the community rather than enter accommodation to receive care (such as a residential care home or nursing home).
• Help people who are setting up home as part of a planned programme of resettlement (organised by someone like a Local Authority, voluntary organisation, housing association or registered charity) following an unsettled way of life (for example, previously staying in a hostel or sleeping rough).
• Ease exceptional pressure on people or families. Examples of exceptional pressure could include a breakdown of family relationships or disruption due to a major fire or flooding at home. There may also be other situations where you could apply for a Support Grant.

Please note that we may ask you to provide evidence to support your application.

What does a Support Grant cover?

If you are awarded a Support Grant because you are setting up home, you can apply for essential furniture items only (items include cooker, fridge, bed, kitchen equipment, etc). We will order the items and they will be delivered to you.

We can only consider items that are relevant to the individual claim. We will not award double or large items for single people. For example, for a single person, we can only consider awarding:

• A single bed not a double bed
• A small fridge not a family-sized fridge

Who can apply for a Support Grant?

To apply for a Support Grant, you must be:

• A resident of Coventry
• Receiving, or be expected to receive, one of the following benefits:
• Income Support
• Income-Based Jobseeker’s Allowance
• Income-Related Employment & Support Allowance
• Universal Credit
• Pension Credit