Family Support
Helping hand: get help with the cost of living
Residents are facing more pressure on household budgets due to the increase in the cost of living, food and energy bills. There's a range of help and advice available. Use the links on this page to see what cost of living help is available, how to apply and where to go for advice
Contact us
If you need to ring us our lines are open Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm, telephone: 01706 923685
Winter Support
As the weather turns colder, our warm spaces provide a helping hand to offset your cost of living this winter.
Our FREE warm spaces provide:-
Hot drinks
Cold drinks
Water
Activities
Signposting to services
The warm spaces are available in libraries, community buildings and churches across the borough
Find your local warm space -
Outside Agencies
Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale early attachment service
This service brings together a range of professionals from Healthy Young Minds, Home-Start, maternity, Thinking Ahead, and adult mental health.
We promote the importance of parent and infant mental health and the first relationship an infant has with their parent or carer.
We work with you during pregnancy, and with you and your babies and young children up until their second birthday.
https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk/services/hmr-early-attachment-service
https://healthyyoungmindspennine.nhs.uk/
Home-Start is a local community network of trained volunteers and expert support helping families with young children through their challenging times. We are there for parents when they need us the most because childhood can’t wait.
https://www.home-start.org.uk/
Thinking Ahead is a service for adults to support mental health, such as anxiety and depression.
https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk/services/thinking-ahead-heywood-middleton-and-rochdale
If your child qualifies for Free School Meals there are clubs and fun activities running throughout the holidays at various venues in the local borough.
When events become available they will be listed here but there are many more fun clubs that children can access throughout the breaks.
If you would like to know more or would like to book some sessions please contact Mrs Harrop who will confirm times and dates for all sessions.
If your child does not qualify there may be some spare spaces so contact school for more information.