Cost of living crisis winter plan from Milton Keynes City Council
More than 10,000 children living in Milton Keynes experience the daily burden of poverty*.
Now the increased cost of heating your home, and the rising price of your weekly shop, means that families on middle to low incomes are becoming desperate.
Milton Keynes Council have set out their Cost of Living Crisis Winter plan to try to help residents who are struggling.
What's in the Council's winter plan?
- £180,000 to help Parish and Town Councils open ‘warm places’, run pop-up cafes and other informal social activities where people can meet up as well as be warm and enjoy a hot meal.
- Paying around £9,000 each month towards rent and overheads for organisations such as MK Foodbank and other smaller groups like Baby Basics, MK Storehouse and St Marks Meals.
- An extra £80,000 to MK Foodbank to help them extend their help.
- £20,000 to SOFEA to help them keep the eight Community Larders going over the winter as well as provide food to other charities and community groups.
- A third wave of ‘Household Support Fund’ money from government - around £700,000 of this will be used to give families of children who are entitled to free school meals £15 of supermarket credit per child, per week for the two-week Christmas holiday, and the one-week February 2023 half term. The Council will also agree with schools how any children who are not entitled to free school meals but need some extra help how they can be added to the programme.
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Full cost of living crisis winter plan
*statistics from the Vital Signs Report 2021/22. MK Council calculate the number to be double this once housing costs are taken into consideration.
