What type of situations do we support?
The People Fund will provide support for a wide range of situations that colleagues, their close families and retired colleagues might face. The charity trustees are open to making a financial contribution to any situation that they judge to be an extraordinary financial challenge, but the situations most likely to be supported are where:
- You face an unusual level of hardship due to circumstances outside of your control.
- You need emergency support following a natural disaster.
- You are facing extraordinary costs associated with education and training.
- You need help with one-off health, wellbeing or recovery costs.
Within close family we include your children, your husband, wife or partner, and their children.
Please note that grants are for unexpected, one-off hardships outside of your control, rather than ongoing circumstances such as continuous health expenses or personal debt.