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  • Cold Weather Payments

    Cold Weather Payments

    15 December 2022

    If you’re eligible to get cold weather payments, which help households pay for energy bills when temperatures plummet, you don’t need to apply – you’ll be paid it automatically, But if you think you should have received a cold weather payment and haven’t, here’s who to contact.

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  • Help to Get Your Room Winter Ready

    Help to Get Your Room Winter Ready

    13 December 2022

    Sheffield Churches Council for Community Care has recently set up a free scheme to provide practical assistance to the over 65s to get rooms winter ready.Their team can help to move, for example ,furniture into or out of a room or away from radiators, retrieve stored blankets/clothes and collect small white goods such as heaters.

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  • Find Good Work

    Find Good Work

    13 December 2022

    Sheffield based organisation Good Work thinks that people with disabilities and health conditions are among every organisation’s best and most resilient employees.They help ‘amazing people’ to find, stay and thrive in employment and can support you to find full or part time work.

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  • Impact of Cost of Living on Healthcare Survey

    Impact of Cost of Living on Healthcare Survey

    07 December 2022

    Healthwatch Sheffield and Healthwatch Barnsley are asking how the cost of living crisis is affecting your access to healthcare. Your answers will help the NHS and other local services better understand how financial pressures are impacting on people’s health.

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  • Heath And Social Care Updates

    Heath And Social Care Updates

    06 December 2022

    Sheffield City Council has set up a new Health & Social Care Community Involvement newsletter, showing how you can get involved in shaping local social care services.Sign up and every three months you’ll hear about ways to have your say about services, groups you can join and projects to take part in.

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  • Free Cab to Grab a Jab

    Free Cab to Grab a Jab

    30 November 2022

    Need help getting to your Covid-19 vaccination appointment? You’ll be pleased to know that The Jab Cab is back and is available until 15 February 2023 ! If you live in Sheffield you can get a free taxi to your appointment. Your trip there and back will be paid for by Sheffield City Council.

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  • Cost Of Living Big Five

    Cost Of Living Big Five

    29 November 2022

    Citizens Advice Sheffield and their trained advisers are providing in-depth support to their clients to enable them to access local funding to help with the cost of living. Part of maximising a client’s income and providing debt advice is going through a checklist of the big 5 key schemes available through Sheffield City Council.

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  • The Unhealthy State of Homelessness

    The Unhealthy State of Homelessness

    29 November 2022

    People experiencing homelessness are almost three times more likely to have a longstanding illness, disability or infirmity than the general population and are often living with more than one disease/condition. Together with the challenges brought by homelessness, recovery is very difficult without adequate support.

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  • Energy Suppliers Failing Vulnerable Customers

    Energy Suppliers Failing Vulnerable Customers

    28 November 2022

    The regulator, Ofgem, said some of the worst examples of poor practice included suppliers failing to read the meters of customers who could not do so themselves.It also found that some vulnerable customers were unable to contact their supplier to top up their meter or to request support credit.

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  • Could You be a Disability Domestic Violence Advisor

    Could You be a Disability Domestic Violence Advisor

    25 November 2022

    Are you passionate about keeping people safe from abuse and violence? IDAS is still looking to recruit the best candidate possible for this new role , someone with experience and knowledge around living with a disability or long term health condition . The closing date is 1 December

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