Household Support Fund

Information about how the council is using the fund

In 2024/25 the UK Government has provided the County Council with a grant to increase the funding available for cost-of-living support for the first six months of the year. The County Council is using the Household Support Fund in the following ways:

  1. The free school meal equivalent support payment for school holiday periods and the parallel scheme for early years, see our Help with rising living costs page, is funded from the Household Support Fund. 
  2. We are delegating funding to the City and District councils to allow them to meet locally identified needs better and support the voluntary and community sector. 
  3. We are working with Good Food Oxfordshire to develop more sustainable approaches to helping residents with the cost of food. 
  4. Our new Resident support scheme is partly funded by the Household Support Fund.

Information on help available is also published on the Government’s Cost of Living Hub.