Carers Support Fund Wales Programme
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About Our Current Carers Support Fund Programme
Carers Trust is delighted to announce the additional support that unpaid carers in every local authority area across Wales can now access via the Carers Support Fund programme.
Funded by Welsh Government, the Carers Support Fund will provide additional services and grant funding to support unpaid carers who are experiencing financial hardship due to the cost-of-living crisis and ongoing impact of the pandemic.
Detailed below is information on the local organisations funded to support carers as part of this programme. Applications from individual unpaid carers to the Carers Support Fund should be made directly to the local provider.
Questions about the Carers Support Fund should be directed to wales@carers.org.
Local Authority Area Support
Please see below for summary details of support organisations available for carers in their area:
| Provider Name | Contact Details | Support Offered |
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https://www.blaenau-gwent.gov.uk/ 01495 311556 |
For more information about the support this organisation offers through Carers Support Fund click here. |
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020 7602 2631 |
For more information about the support this organisation offers through Carers Support Fund click here. |
| Provider Name | Contact Details | Support Offered |
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https://www.bridgendcarers.co.uk 01495 311556 |
For more information about the support this organisation offers through Carers Support Fund click here. |
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020 7602 2631 |
For more information about the support this organisation offers through Carers Support Fund click here. |
| Provider Name | Contact Details | Support Offered |
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020 7602 2631 |
For more information about the support this organisation offers through Carers Support Fund click here. |
| Provider Name | Contact Details | Support Offered |
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https://raceequalityfirst.org/ 029 2048 2607 |
For more information about the support this organisation offers through Carers Support Fund click here. |
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020 7602 2631 |
For more information about the support this organisation offers through Carers Support Fund click here. |
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https://rayoflightwales.org.uk/ 07971 349703 |
For more information about the support this organisation offers through Carers Support Fund click here. |
| Provider Name | Contact Details | Support Offered |
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0300 0200 002 |
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020 7602 2631 |
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| Provider Name | Contact Details | Support Offered |
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01597 823800 |
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020 7602 2631 |
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| Provider Name | Contact Details | Support Offered |
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01597 823800 |
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https://www.nwcrossroads.org.uk/ 01492 542212 |
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020 7602 2631 |
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https://carersoutreach.org.uk/ 01248 370797 |
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| Provider Name | Contact Details | Support Offered |
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01352 752525 |
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https://www.nwcrossroads.org.uk/ 01492 542212 |
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01597 823800 |
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020 7602 2631 |
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https://www.nwcrossroads.org.uk/ 01492 542212 |
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01352 752525 |
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020 7602 2631 |
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| Provider Name | Contact Details | Support Offered |
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https://www.nwcrossroads.org.uk/ 01492 542212 |
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020 7602 2631 |
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https://carersoutreach.org.uk/ 01248 370797 |
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| Provider Name | Contact Details | Support Offered |
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https://www.nwcrossroads.org.uk/ 01492 542212 |
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https://carersoutreach.org.uk/ 01248 370797 |
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020 7602 2631 |
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| Provider Name | Contact Details | Support Offered |
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020 7602 2631 |
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| Provider Name | Contact Details | Support Offered |
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https://www.monmouthshire.gov.uk/social-care/carers-project/ 01291 691383 / 07855 977450 |
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020 7602 2631 |
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| Provider Name | Contact Details | Support Offered |
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01639 642277 |
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020 7602 2631 |
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https://live-newport.cloud.contensis.com/en/Care-Support/Carers/Carers.aspx Community Connector Team: 01633 235650 |
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020 7602 2631 |
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| Provider Name | Contact Details | Support Offered |
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0300 0200 002 |
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020 7602 2631 |
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| Provider Name | Contact Details | Support Offered |
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01597 823800 |
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020 7602 2631 |
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Contact Details |
Support Offered |
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020 7602 2631 |
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https://rayoflightwales.org.uk/ 07971 349703 |
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Contact Details |
Support Offered |
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https://www.swanseacarerscentre.org.uk/ 01792 653344 admin@swanseacarerscentre.org.uk
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020 7602 2631 |
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https://www.torfaen.gov.uk/en/HealthSocialCare/Caring-for-Someone/Caring-for-Someone.aspx Carer Support Team: 01495 762200 |
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020 7602 2631 |
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https://raceequalityfirst.org/ 029 2048 2607 |
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020 7602 2631 |
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https://rayoflightwales.org.uk/ 07971 349703 |
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Contact Details | Support Offered |
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https://www.nwcrossroads.org.uk/ 01492 542212 |
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01597 823800 |
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01352 752525 |
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020 7602 2631 |
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Carers Support Fund Providers
Please see below for summary details of what each provider is delivering for carers in their area:
Areas supported: Blaenau Gwent
| Project Services | Direct Grants |
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Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council are supporting unpaid carers through the Carers Support Fund by delivering: Adult carer information sessions, workshops, and events in partnership with Adferiad: Supporting with housing, benefits/welfare, job applications, budgeting, money management, health and wellbeing, carer skills and information. Young carers information sessions and events: Supporting with budgeting, cooking, life skills, housing, emotional wellbeing, welfare support, and career pathways. Council tax support: Promoting the uptake of council benefits and reductions. Awareness raising and resources: Providing information leaflets and webpage/social media drops to support with cost of living pressures. |
Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council provide direct grants for:
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Areas supported: Bridgend
| Project Services | Direct Grants |
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Bridgend Carers Centre are supporting unpaid carers through the Carers Support Fund by delivering: Debt and money management advice: Direct advice and one to one, person-centred support for carers and families experiencing debt and financial hardship. Signposting and referrals: Providing access to food banks and pantries, community gardening, welfare benefit advice. Information sessions, workshops, and events: Providing support with budgeting, saving money, cooking, gambling awareness, debt, CV writing, discounts. Awareness raising and resources: Delivering a newsletter segment on cost of living and raising financial awareness throughout their network. |
Bridgend Carers Centre provide direct grants for:
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Areas supported: Conwy, Gwynedd, Isle of Anglesey
| Project Services | Direct Grants |
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Carers Outreach are supporting unpaid carers through the Carers Support Fund by delivering: Financial assessments and support: One to one evaluations of finances and assistance with applications for benefits and grants, especially those related to energy costs. Signposting and referrals: Providing access to food banks and pantries, and support grants such as Groundworks and Family Fund. Counselling and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT): Carers Outreach have extended their support of inhouse counselling services and CBT sessions. |
Carers Outreach provide direct grants for:
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Areas supported: Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire
| Project Services | Direct Grants |
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Carers Trust Crossroads West Wales are supporting unpaid carers through the Carers Support Fund by delivering: Information sessions, workshops, and events: Providing outreach drop-in financial information sessions. These activities will help carers make the most of online resources such as digital banking and discounts, and also provide warm hubs during the winter months. Financial support and advice: One to one evaluations of finances and assistance with applications for benefits and grants through a dedicated Welfare Benefits Adviser. Signposting and referrals: Providing access to food banks and local support services. Awareness raising and resources: Delivering factsheets and financial support resources e.g. ‘Making the most of your money’. |
Carers Trust Crossroads West Wales provide direct grants for:
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Areas supported: Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Isle of Anglesey, Wrexham
| Project Services | Direct Grants |
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Carers Trust North Wales Crossroads Care Services are supporting unpaid carers through the Carers Support Fund by delivering: Financial support and advice: One to one support with maximising income, budgeting, wellbeing, advising on cost savings e.g. batch cooking, energy saving, applications for benefits and grants through 3 dedicated Wellbeing and Inclusion Officers. Signposting and referrals: Providing access to local support services. |
Carers Trust North Wales Crossroads provide direct grants for:
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Areas supported: Ceredigion, Conwy, Denbighshire, Powys, Wrexham
| Project Services | Direct Grants |
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Credu are supporting unpaid carers through the Carers Support Fund by delivering: Financial support: Providing telephone and outreach to carers, providing financial information and links to financial support services. Information sessions, workshops, and events: Providing workshops for support with budgeting and cooking on a budget to the community and schools. Signposting and referrals: Providing access to local food banks, community fridges/meals, clothes swaps, second hand purchases, clothes buy and sell, community support. |
Credu provide open grants to support carers experiencing financial hardship based on their individual needs. |
Areas supported: Monmouthshire
| Project Services | Direct Grants |
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Monmouthshire County Council are supporting unpaid carers through the Carers Support Fund by delivering: Young carers information sessions and events: Providing young carers with fun/information days and school and community groups, supporting with carers rights, first aid, budgeting, cooking, mental health, clothes repairs, and peer support. Signposting and referrals: Providing unpaid carers from mental health family contexts with enhanced support and wellbeing/self-care boxes with Adferiad. |
Monmouthshire County Council are not currently providing direct grants through this programme. |
Areas supported: Neath Port Talbot
| Project Services | Direct Grants |
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Neath Port Talbot Carers Service are supporting unpaid carers through the Carers Support Fund by delivering: Signposting and referrals: Providing access to direct grants for unpaid carers. Awareness raising and resources: Raising awareness of available direct grants for carers via social media, newsletter, events, workshops, and cafes. |
Neath Port Talbot Carers Service provide direct grants for:
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Areas supported: Flintshire, Denbighshire, Wrexham
| Project Services | Direct Grants |
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NEWCIS are supporting unpaid carers through the Carers Support Fund by delivering: Information sessions, workshops, and events: Providing financial resilience courses through CAB and Warm Home Wales, supporting with debt management, income support, and energy efficiency. Winter support boxes: Providing warm products and support information to carers attending financial resilience courses. Items provided include gloves, socks, window wrap, draft excluders, energy information, and nutritional information. Counselling and mental health support: NEWCIS have extended their support of inhouse counselling services. Food parcels: Provision of food parcels for carers in crisis who are experiencing situations such as hospital discharge, carers illness, and financial difficulties. |
NEWCIS provide open grants to support carers experiencing financial hardship based on their individual needs. |
Areas supported: Newport
| Project Services | Direct Grants |
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Newport City Council are supporting unpaid carers through the Carers Support Fund by delivering: Financial support and advice: Providing an Engagement Officer to offer advice on financial support and local support organisations. E.g. referrals to Citizens Advice, Cost of Living advisors, Small Grants Scheme, Alzheimer’s Society Information sessions, workshops, and events: Providing drop-in sessions around cost of living, local support services and providing information, advice and assistance to unpaid carers. Also providing financial support outreach across the city and at Newport City Council carer events e.g. Carers Café, Carers Rights Day, and Carers Week. Awareness raising and resources: Providing financial support outreach at events and community groups e.g. Welsh Water, Citizen’s Advice Bureau, local schools, ABUHB, health services, Parent Carer support groups and coffee mornings and third sector services and groups. |
Newport City Council provide supermarket vouchers, Love2Shop vouchers, and open grants to support carers experiencing financial hardship based on their individual needs. |
Areas supported: Newport, Cardiff, Caerphilly, Vale of Glamorgan
| Project Services | Direct Grants |
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Race Equality First are supporting unpaid carers from minoritised ethnic communities by delivering: Advocacy services: Providing support for carers to help navigate public services, health providers, welfare and benefit applications, and housing providers. Financial support and advice: Providing a Finance and Digital Inclusion Officer to offer advice on financial support, help maximize income through benefits assessments. Signposting and referrals: Providing access to financial support agencies e.g. Advicelink, Stepchange, and links to existing inhouse counselling services, and wellbeing activities |
Race Equality First provide direct grants for:
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Areas supported: Cardiff, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Vale of Glamorgan
| Project Services | Direct Grants |
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Ray of Light Cancer Support are supporting unpaid carers through the Carers Support Fund by delivering: Financial support and advice: Providing a advice for welfare and benefits, budgeting, and support with benefit applications and appeals. Information sessions, workshops, and events: Providing energy awareness groups to help decrease energy bills and provide advice on budgeting, budget cooking and nutrition workshops, and “Digital Story Telling” mental wellbeing groups. Energy awareness group attendees receive winter warm packs including energy saving items such as draught excluders and warm clothing. |
Ray of Light Cancer Support provide direct grants for:
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Areas supported: Swansea
| Project Services | Direct Grants |
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Swansea Carers Centre are supporting unpaid carers through the Carers Support Fund by delivering: Information sessions, workshops, and events: Providing “Carers Connect” support and activity groups to carers aged 16+, including guest speakers, relaxation sessions, crafts, photography, peer support, and life skills workshops. Signposting and referrals: Referring carers to Swansea Carers Centre services e.g. benefits, counselling, dementia support, carer groups, training and volunteering opportunities. |
Swansea Carers Centre provide direct grants in the form of vouchers for items such as:
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Areas supported: Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Isle of Anglesey, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Neath Port Talbot, Newport, Pembrokeshire, Powys, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Swansea, Torfaen, Vale of Glamorgan, Wrexham
| Project Services | Direct Grants |
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The Honeypot Children’s Charity are supporting unpaid young carers through the Carers Support Fund by delivering: Information sessions, workshops, and events: Providing support to young carers through residential respite breaks, in-person cooking and nutrition classes with ingredient grants, food and nutrition-related educational activities e.g. games, food budgeting workshops, food classes e.g. reading ingredient labels, allergy control, food preparation, and hygiene. Awareness raising and resources: Providing access to healthy recipes and cooking resources whilst on site. |
The Honeypot Children’s Charity provide direct grants for:
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Areas supported: Torfaen
| Project Services | Direct Grants |
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Torfaen County Borough Council are supporting unpaid carers through the Carers Support Fund by delivering: Adult carers information sessions and events: Providing adult carers with financial hardship information and advice groups, supporting with budgeting, financial management, income support, energy awareness, and benefits advice. Young carers information sessions and events: Providing young carers with information and advice groups supporting with independent living, career pathways, housing, benefits, health and wellbeing, and employability. Signposting and referrals: Providing referrals to LGBTQ+ befriending groups for young carers, signposting health and wellbeing resources. |
Torfaen County Borough Council provide direct grants for:
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