How We Can Help

Fylde Kids Foundation supports children and young people up to their 20th birthday, and their families, across the Fylde Coast who are experiencing financial hardship.

Our support is for children and young people. Any funded support we provide must directly benefit a child or young person and support their health, wellbeing, safety, development or essential needs.

We support families from all backgrounds, including families where parents are working. Where we cannot help directly, we will do our best to signpost you to another organisation or service that may be able to help.
 

Please Read carefully Before Applying

Our Help Forms are for funded support only.

The Help Forms are only for items or support that require funding from Fylde Kids Foundation. They are not required to access our Used Uniform Bank or Clothing Bank. Both services are available for anyone who needs them.

Please read the relevant form carefully and provide all of the information and evidence requested.

If the required evidence is not provided, we cannot process your application.

We are a small team and cannot repeatedly chase applicants for missing information or documents. The time spent chasing paperwork is time that could be spent assessing applications, arranging support and helping families.

Please check your application carefully and send everything requested.
 

Beds and Bedding

We are passionate about tackling bed poverty and ensuring that no child has to sleep without a safe and suitable bed.

Where a child does not have suitable sleeping arrangements, this can be considered through our funded support application. Each request is individually assessed, and where support is approved, Fylde Kids Foundation will purchase the appropriate bed and bedding for the child.

Our aim is to make sure children have a safe, comfortable place to sleep and the essential bedding they need.

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School Uniform

Our Used Uniform Bank provides good quality pre loved school uniform free of charge and is available for anyone who needs it.

You do not need to complete a Help Form to access the Used Uniform Bank.

Stock depends on donations, so we cannot guarantee specific items, sizes, colours or styles. We will always do our best to help with what we have available.
We also run a funded uniform scheme each year to support with "back to school" costs. When this is live, the forms will be available below.
In some cases, we may be able to fund a uniform outside of this scheme. This is reserved for exceptional circumstances only.

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Clothing

Our Clothing Bank is available for anyone who needs support.

You do not need to complete a Help Form to access clothing.

Stock depends on donations, so we cannot guarantee specific items, sizes or styles.

You can also use our Fylde Kids Foundation Community Group on Facebook to anonymously request clothing, allowing members of the public to offer items they may have available.
In some cases, we may be able to fund shoes and clothing that is needed. This is reserved for exceptional circumstances only.

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Food Support

Our food support is provided as a small supermarket voucher to help families through an immediate food emergency.

The voucher is intended to provide a small amount of shopping to help you get by until you are able to access a food bank or other ongoing food support.

Food vouchers can be requested once per calendar month, with a new application required for each request.

Where another local food service is available and appropriate, we may signpost or refer you there instead.
All voucher requests are subject to assessment.

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White Goods and Household Appliances

We do not provide white goods as standard funded support.

This includes washing machines, tumble dryers, cookers and fridge freezers.

Help with these items are reserved for exceptional circumstances, such as fleeing domestic violence, a house fire or another serious emergency, we may be able to consider larger appliances. These situations are considered individually and support is not guaranteed.

For standard support with larger household appliances, please check your local council's Household Support Fund.

We can consider smaller essential appliances such as microwaves, air fryers and tabletop ovens. These must directly benefit a child or young person and are subject to assessment and available funding.

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How We Assess Funded Applications

Every funded application is assessed individually by our independent anonymous assessment team.

Your local service area lead will be your point of contact and will help you with your request, but they do not assess applications.

Service area leads do not see your financial evidence, personal information or supporting documents. This information is kept separate and is only accessed by the independent assessment team.

The assessment team considers the overall household situation, including income, essential outgoings, financial commitments, savings and available resources. They also consider whether the requested support directly benefits a child or young person.

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Being in receipt of benefits, receiving free school meals, having debts or being in work does not automatically mean an application will be approved or declined.
 

Submitting an application does not guarantee funded support.

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Where necessary, the assessment team may request additional evidence or use publicly available information to verify or clarify information provided. If something does not appear to match the information provided, you will be given the opportunity to explain before a decision is made.

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Every application is considered individually and against our current criteria and available funding. 

If an application does not meet the criteria for funded support, the assessment team will let the relevant service area lead know. The service area lead can then work with the family to look at other ways we may be able to help, including our other services or support available elsewhere in the community.

Not qualifying for funded support does not mean you will simply be left without help.