We are a small charity in the Sevenoaks area. We work with Children's Services to provide direct, practical assistance to families facing financial hardship.
South East, England
Joined September 2018
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Friends For Families retweeted
Please share in solidarity: The @ukhomeoffice Flexible Fund is now open for applications – offering one-off payments to survivors over 16 to help them flee #DomesticAbuse & secure a better future. Applications via member services & our delivery partners: womensaid.org.uk/flexible-fu…
Friends For Families retweeted
Please can you donate any of these items? 🙏
Our crisis-cupboard is running low. 😢
- We stock this to help our most vulnerable local residents when facing extreme hardship. We also provide personalised support to try and tackle the root cause.
Please like & share to help us! 👍
More children expected to arrive at UK schools with dirty clothes and hair theguardian.com/society/2023…
Friends For Families retweeted
📚 It's almost back to #school time!
Having to buy a new school #uniform every few years is just not financially possible for many families, so we've awarded grants to fantastic #charities like @edi_little and @F4FSev who are supporting those struggling with this cost. #Charity
ALT A photo of children running and smiling in school uniforms with text that reads, 'Our grants are helping charities provide new school uniforms to disadvantaged children'
Friends For Families retweeted
Charity says number of children classed as living in destitution has increased significantly in past year
Full report here:
independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…
Thank you very much to the organisers of the @thenewbeacon Charity Golf Day! m.facebook.com/story.php?sto…
Friends For Families retweeted
We are delighted to be able to donate £500 to Friends for Families (@F4FSev), a charity supporting those in need across the Sevenoaks district. Find out more at friendsforfamilies.org.
We took a trip to King's Hill to meet the team at @wardsofkent who have given us a generous grant towards our work. Thank you very much!
Friends For Families retweeted
🎤Are you a Kent charity that works to improve wellbeing in your community? You could be eligible for one of our grants of up to £10,000 - check by taking our quiz here: bit.ly/3i9UgpL
#fundingopportunity #kentcharities #wellbeing
Friends For Families retweeted
📣 There are just two weeks to go to apply for one of our grants!
If you’re a Kent charity working to improve wellbeing in your community click here to read more about our grants: bit.ly/3JpXEaT
#funding #communitygroup #kentcharities
We're very grateful to @ManakSolicitors for their support with this fundraising event for a second year. As a small charity embedded in our local community, the generosity of local businesses like Manak is vital to us.
Manak Solicitors are proud to support @F4FSev sustainable fashion event, Fashion With Friends, on the 7th of October, at the Bat & Ball Community Centre. Find yourself a black dress for the Christmas season while supporting our local charity.
#ManakSolicitors
Friends For Families retweeted
Why not join us at the Heavy Horse Show in Shoreham tomorrow? Organised by the Sevenoaks Lions, there will be craft stalls, Classic Cars, Birds of Prey - lots for all the family.
sevenoakslions.org/heavy-hor…
Friends For Families retweeted
Fears of widespread child hunger spark calls for universal free school meals in UK theguardian.com/business/202…
@AsdaServiceTeam I would really appreciate a reply to my DM: it's not the first time we've had problems with your website + your customer service response is once again not helpful. We're trying to feed vulnerable families, please don't make it so difficult!
Friends For Families retweeted
In light of the new energy price cap estimates, @ProfJBradshaw and Antonia Keung have updated their modelling and added other thresholds. In January, they estimate that 11.7% of households will be spending MORE THAN 30% of their net income on fuel. cpag.org.uk/news-blogs/news-…
By January 2023 over half of households in the UK (15 million) will be in fuel poverty – spending over 10 per cent of net income on fuel.
New analysis from @ProfJBradshaw and Antonia Keung of @UniOfYork
cpag.org.uk/news-blogs/news-…
Friends For Families retweeted
Sevenoaks Panto will this year team up with a trio of top Sevenoaks charities; @SevenoaksLarder @thehygienebank and @F4FSev
@BritishGasHelp we sometimes help struggling families by paying into their energy account by phone. Never had a problem with any company until today, when you told me the client has been migrated onto a new system and third party payment is no longer possible. Really?
@BritishGasHelp why make it more difficult for us to help families struggling with their bills at this point? Really would like a response please.
Does anyone else know why they've done this? @MartinSLewis ?
Friends For Families retweeted
After housing costs, some of the poorest UK households will be required to pay two-thirds of their income on energy costs in 2023/24. welfareweekly.com/2022/07/21… via @Welfare_Weekly
@AsdaServiceTeam worryingly poor customer service.
We buy food for vulnerable disadvantaged families. Ordered a shop delivered to one by you on Friday. The family didn't get it, you didn't email us to tell us you had a driver shortage so were cancelling.
Response from @AsdaServiceTeam is that they're sorry, but no solution. They refuse to address repeated requests to speak to someone in a position to help us. Anyone got any ideas how to get through to someone at Asda who can actually address this?