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Pendle: Household Support Fund & Crisis and Resilience Fund

What Pendle’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

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

What Pendle’s scheme covers

What you get: Includes crisis payments, heating oil grants, affordable warmth grants and housing payments
Who qualifies: Low income households facing a sudden or urgent situation needing short-term help; Affordable Warmth requires owning and occupying the property and being vulnerable or on a low income
How to apply: Microsoft online form
Not covered: Not a source of regular income
Government allocation: £132,070 for 2026-27

Pendle Borough 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; Pendle Borough Council was allocated £132,070 of its own. If what you need is help with food or energy rather than rent, start with the Lancashire scheme.

What Pendle itself says

What you get. “help people on low incomes who are struggling financially”
Who qualifies. “support if you are facing a sudden or urgent situation and need short-term help”
How to apply. “please complete the form below and a member of the team will get back to you”
Not covered. “not a source of regular income”

Quoted from Pendle’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 Pendle’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 Pendle scheme page

Source: Pendle Borough Council — Crisis and Resilience Fund. 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

White-goods grants — a broken fridge, cooker or washing machine.
Budgeting Advance or Budgeting Loan — interest-free from the DWP.
Credit union loans — the cheapest borrowing, capped at 3% a month.
DWP phone numbers — which line to call, and for what.

Not in Pendle?

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: Peterborough, Swale, Devon — see all 141.

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This page is independent. It is not run by Pendle Borough 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.