Eligibility framework
Eligibility for crisis payments
Residents may apply for crisis support where they can demonstrate financial hardship and a need for assistance with food, energy, water, or other essential needs in crisis. All applications will be subject to:
- an initial assessment of cause and urgency of need
- a financial assessment using the council’s existing assessment process.
- income and assets verification.
- completion of application and submission of all required evidence before a decision can be made
Eligibility for Housing Fund Support
Support from the Housing Payment fund, will be administered in accordance with Slough’s Housing Payment Policy.
Eligibility for Council Tax hardship support
Residents can apply where they can demonstrate exceptional financial hardship and need support with Council Tax payments for the financial year. Applications must be:
- made by the resident themselves or someone appointed to act for them.
- accompanied by full evidence.
- supported through participation in the assessment process.
Eligibility for care leaver support
Care leavers are eligible where they meet the definition set out in the Children Act 1989 and Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 and where they are owed duties by Slough Borough Council. Care leavers who live in Slough but are owed duties by another authority will be referred back to that authority.
Eligibility for Voluntary and Community groups (VCS)
VCS organisations will be eligible to apply for grants, where they meet the following conditions:
- are a registered charity
- voluntary and community groups which are charitable in purpose
- not for profit organisations such as a community interest company (CIC)
- Parent and Teacher Associations, residents’ associations, with a clear social purpose and constitution
- national charities
- faith groups, with a project that is accessible to the wider Slough Borough Council community
- CICs generating a profit must reinvest it into community work.