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Chorley: Household Support Fund & Crisis and Resilience Fund

What Chorley’s local crisis scheme covers, how to apply, and whether it was open when we checked.

Written by the benefitmoney.co.uk editorial team · Last reviewed 14 September 2026

Chorley Council runs its local crisis help as the Crisis and Resilience Fund (CRF). It is a grant — not a loan: help with essentials, nothing to repay. This is a summary; Chorley’s own page (linked below) is the authority and the current position.

What Chorley’s scheme covers

What you get: Short-term crisis support plus longer-term resilience support to help households stabilise finances
Who qualifies: Does not require benefit receipt; for sudden unexpected expense or a significant unexpected drop in income
How to apply: Council website application, with telephone assistance available
Funding period: Replaced the Household Support Fund, which ended 31 March 2026
Government allocation: £126,407 for 2026-27

Chorley Council is one of 12 district councils in Lancashire. In a two-tier area the county council runs crisis payments and the district runs the housing side of the fund — rent shortfalls, a deposit, rent in advance. Lancashire County Council was allocated £17,693,881 for 2026-27; Chorley Council was allocated £126,407 of its own. If what you need is help with food or energy rather than rent, start with the Lancashire scheme.

What Chorley itself says

What you get. “short-term crisis support for urgent and unexpected financial hardship”
Who qualifies. “The household does not need to be in receipt of benefits to be eligible”
How to apply. “Applications can be made through the Chorley Council website, with telephone assistance available”
Funding period. “replaces the Household Support Fund (HSF), which ended on 31 March 2026”

Quoted from Chorley’s own page↗, checked 14 September 2026. Nothing on this page is paraphrased into a rule the council has not published. The government allocation is from Annex A of the Crisis and Resilience Fund grant determination 2026 to 2027↗.

Apply on Chorley’s website

Applications are made on the council’s own site — this page collects nothing. If the link has moved, search the council site for “crisis and resilience”, then “household support”, then “welfare assistance”.

Open the Chorley scheme page

Source: Chorley Council — Crisis and Resilience Fund (CRF). Opened 10 September 2026.

Where this money comes from

Central government funds it; the council sets the rules. A payment does not affect your benefits. How the fund works nationally.

Other help you may qualify for

DWP phone numbers — which line to call, and for what.
Borrowing while on benefits — what it costs and what it does to your award.
Crisis Loans — what replaced them, and where to apply now.
Help with energy bills — grants and supplier schemes.

Not in Chorley?

See the other councils we have checked, or find yours via GOV.UK’s Get help with the cost of living from your local council↗.

Outside England the scheme has a different name: the Scottish Welfare Fund in Scotland, the Discretionary Assistance Fund in Wales, and Discretionary Support in Northern Ireland.

Recently checked elsewhere: Colchester, Havant, Staffordshire — see all 141.

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This page is independent. It is not run by Chorley Council, the Department for Work and Pensions or GOV.UK. Council schemes change without notice; the council’s own page is always the current position.