19/12/2025
🏠🍞 Cost of Living & Food Support in Kirklees
If money, food shopping, or energy bills are feeling overwhelming right now, there is support available locally. You don’t have to manage this alone.
💷 Household Support Fund (Kirklees)
The Household Support Fund helps people with the cost of food and energy.
• Grants are available to support with essential living costs
• Open to people on low incomes or experiencing financial hardship
👉 Find out more and apply:
https://www.kirklees.gov.uk/beta/benefits/household-support-fund.aspx
🍞 The Bread and Butter Thing
A mobile food hub offering good-quality food at a very low cost, helping:
• Make food more affordable
• Reduce food waste
• Build stronger local communities
Anyone can become a member.
👉 Website:
https://www.breadandbutterthing.or
📧 Email: [email protected]
📱 Text: 07507 237311
🗺️ Good Food For All Kirklees: Food Projects Map
This interactive map shows where you can find food support across Kirklees, including:
• Low-cost food options
• Emergency food support
• Community cafés
• Community cooking sessions
• Community growing projects
👉 View the food projects map:
https://goodfoodforallkirklees.org.uk/food-projects-map/
🥗 Eat Well on a Budget (NHS)
The NHS has practical advice on how to eat well while keeping costs down.
Top tips include:
• Planning meals in advance
• Writing a shopping list and sticking to it
• Buying frozen fruit and vegetables
• Avoiding expensive brands
• Cooking from scratch where possible
👉 Read more:
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/
🚨 If You Need Immediate Help
Food banks in Kirklees can help with essentials like food and basic toiletries.
To access support, contact:
• The Local Welfare Provision Team
• Citizens Advice
• A social worker
• Your GP
They can make a referral to your nearest food bank or wider support services.
👉 Local Welfare Provision (Kirklees):
https://www.kirklees.gov.uk/beta/benefits/local-welfare-provision.aspx
💙 Please share this with anyone who might find it helpful.
💗 Needing support is not a failure. It’s about getting what you need to get through.
Delivering information for individuals, businesses and organisations about this area in the Yorkshire Pennines area of England.