Cost of Living Support Grant

As part of Hart’s Cost of Living response and in line with our corporate priorities, we ran another support scheme with a total of £50,000 available. This grant is aimed at local agencies which provide help and support to individuals and families most in need.

Applications ran from 6 October through to 7 November 2025 with awards of up to £5,000 per organisation.

Successful projects

Christians Together – Hart Foodbank

To provide eligible clients with one-off payments for essential needs such as energy and water bill top-ups, emergency vehicle repairs, transport costs for medical appointments or job interviews, and purchases like bicycles to support commuting to work, volunteering and social activities.
Awarded £5,000

Fleet Phoenix – Open Door Wider Family Support

To support an ongoing project giving young people some stability and relieve some of their concerns. It also supports young people’s families by providing school uniforms and resources, utilities support, warm clothes, shoes, warm bedding and food supplies. 
Awarded £5,000

Yateley Youth Café – Safe space for young people

To provide a safe and warm space for young people to socialise and get support from safe, responsible adults with cheap meals and snacks, as well as free hot and cold drinks and activities.
Awarded £1,180

Vision 4 Youth – Youth club Christmas celebrations

To run a Christmas party at each of its six youth clubs during the last week of term. The clubs run Monday to Friday evenings with four based at The Tythings in Yateley and two at St Barnabas in Darby Green.
Awarded £1,384

Citizens Advice Hart – Comfort & Care

To provide emergency food parcels for clients, including hygiene and period products along with emergency/crisis support and financial capability assessments.
Awarded £5,000

Junction 5 Money Advice – Budgeting advice

To support an ongoing project to help anyone with debt problems. Its main aim is to empower clients to take control of their finances and give them the knowledge to make good choices, be able to use a budget, live without the fear of bailiffs, court orders, final demands and stay out of debt.
Awarded £2,950

Yateley Industries – Warm space

To provide a warm, welcoming space within Yateley’s community café, attached to the community pantry, for pantry members during the colder months of October to March. It offers a light meal deal that is cost-effective, nutritious and warming.
Awarded £3,675

Hart Voluntary Action – Hart Eco Hub Sewing Project

To produce items such as draught excluders, or to run workshops to teach people how to mend clothes.
Awarded £1,000

Phyllis Tuckwell – Living Well Project

To support patients in their homes or at a Living Well group at the Beacon Centre in Guildford. These relaxed and friendly groups run over several weeks and cover a range of topics. 
Awarded £5,000

Yateley Lions – Health and Wellbeing Support Project

To expand its e-voucher service and increase the financial help it offers. The group runs craft classes for Yateley Industries residents and service users and a fuel grant scheme and helps local families with the cost of school uniforms.
Awarded £5,000

Hart Foodbank – Christmas boxes

To provide households on low incomes and in a situation of food poverty with the supplies needed to have a Christmas roast dinner.
Awarded £3,000

Fleet and Church Crookham Welcome Club

To provide support, travel and stimulating activities for older Hart residents who are isolated, lonely, widowed or have disabilities.
Awarded £1,700

Christ Church Crookham – Cooking Well for Less

To support cooking workshops that teach participants how to prepare nutritious meals on a budget from scratch. The project aims to increase food confidence and cooking skills, reduce household food costs and food waste, and improve diets for low‑income families and those referred by local support agencies.
Awarded £1,150

St Mary’s Church, Eversley - Community space

To support heating costs in the community hall.
Awarded £3,000

Fleet Town Council – Christmas lunch

To provide a Christmas lunch for those people who otherwise would be alone at Christmas.
Awarded £1,000

Age Concern Hampshire – Helping Hands

The project aims to support older residents in Hart to access essential benefits and services by providing personalised assistance with completing forms and applications. This will help reduce financial hardship, improve wellbeing and promote independence for vulnerable older adults.
Awarded £4,994

Projects supported from previous funding:

• Yateley and District Lions – provision of Christmas food parcels, hygiene care packages, gifts for the elderly, activities and entertainment for those with dementia, cooking on a budget workshops, reducing food waste initiative, gardening projects / food vouchers during the school holidays.
  Awarded £5,000
   
• Citizens Advice Hart - providing emergency food parcels, poverty packs and printed information leaflets along with financial capability assessments.
  Awarded £4,722
   
• Darby Green Community Hub - extension of community warm space and providing six workshops for women aged 18-30 years from Yateley, Darby Green, Blackwater and surroundings. 
  Awarded £2,800
   
• Fleet Phoenix Open Door Project - providing support, welfare and hygiene products to those most in need.
  Awarded £5,000
   
• Hart Community Garden (Hart Voluntary Action) - providing a social and wellbeing space over the winter months to help people look after their mental health and wellbeing.
  Awarded £4,500
   
• Junction 5, Hook - budgeting and money management support to enable clients to make long-term changes to their spending habits and stay out of debt to ease the pressures of the cost of living over the winter months and beyond.
  Awarded £2,750
   
• St Mary’s Church, Eversley - build a recognised centre that nurtures and promotes the community by offering a safe, welcoming environment.
  Awarded £2,443.75
   
• St Peter’s Church Youth Cafe - providing a safe and warm space for young people to meet and receive support.
  Awarded £450
   
• The Friendship Group, Heckfield - providing a safe space to address isolation and improve wellbeing while supporting individuals with support from external agencies.
  Awarded £1,500
   
• Yateley Industries - extension of the warm space and community café, providing subsidised food and drink to pantry members over the winter months to ensure they have access to hot food and drink, and reduce isolation.
  Awarded £3,500

Scoring criteria

• impact – demonstrating how well the funding requested will be used to achieve the greatest outcomes. To also assess if expenditure is realistic for project size and location.
• benefit to the community – demonstrating increased standards of living and wellbeing for residents in the district.
• target demographic recipients - demonstrating the need within the Hart community and how funds will be used to benefit our residents

Please see our Cost of Living Support Scheme privacy notice.