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Gloucestershire: Household Support Fund & Crisis and Resilience Fund

What Gloucestershire’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 15 September 2026

What Gloucestershire’s scheme covers

Covers: food energy household items housing debt vouchers

Covers

Same-day crisis payments (cash, vouchers or PayPoint codes); food support; energy help including heating oil; rent-shortfall payments; essential household items; and longer-term debt advice, benefit checks and employment training

Status

Active (confirmed 15 September 2026)

Funding period

1 April 2026 to 31 March 2029; £17.1m total

What you get

Same-day crisis payments via cash, vouchers or PayPoint cash codes for urgent cases; also supermarket vouchers, energy top-ups, rent payments, and household items

Who qualifies

Vulnerable residents experiencing extreme hardship (housing payments additionally require having been refused Discretionary Household Payment and/or Homelessness Grant)

How to apply

Apply via the Family Hubs Crisis and Resilience Fund online portal

Government allocation

£6,324,525 for 2026-27

Before you apply

1. Use the right route. Apply through the council's Family Hub Crisis Resilience Fund pages at familyhubs.gloucestershire.gov.uk/crisis-resilience-home
2. Check it is still open. Active We confirmed this on 15 September 2026.

Only what Gloucestershire states on its own page. Other councils ask for more — see what they have in common.

The 4 district councils in Gloucestershire

In Gloucestershire the county council runs crisis payments, but your district or borough council runs the housing side of the fund — rent shortfalls, a deposit, rent in advance. Each has its own rules, its own application route and its own government allocation.

• Cheltenham
• Cotswold
• Gloucester
• Tewkesbury

What Gloucestershire itself says

• What you get. “Crisis payments (same day in urgent cases through cash, vouchers or PayPoint cash codes)”

Quoted from Gloucestershire’s own page↗ and its application page↗, checked 15 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 Gloucestershire’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”.

Source: Gloucestershire County Council — Crisis and Resilience Fund. Opened 15 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

• 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.
• Eligibility checker — see what you could be entitled to.

Not in Gloucestershire?

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: Gosport, Newcastle, Welwyn Hatfield — see all 141.

This page is independent. It is not run by Gloucestershire County 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.