Financial Information for Parents
Government help with childcare 2025
Nursery Funding Explained Nov 24
Government support with childcare leaflet Feb 24
Childcare Choices support with childcare costs
Tax free childcare information updated Jan 25
CCV payments Freshfield Jan 25 – childcare vouchers
Free School Meals
Please apply via this link https://www.stockport.gov.uk/free-school-meals
Applying for healthy start
https://services.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/apply-for-healthy-start/
Healthy-Start-DL-leaflet-Jan-2022
Financial support and help getting food
Signposting_letter_helping you further (1) – Foodbank information
Partner toolkit – Tax-Free Childcare
Local Support Services For Families
https://www.stockport.gov.uk/financial-support-and-help-getting-food
https://stockport.foodbank.org.uk/get-help/how-to-get-help/
Household support grant
https://www.stockport.gov.uk/start/apply-for-support-in-a-crisis
Holiday Activities and Food Programme
https://www.stockport.gov.uk/information-for-parents-and-carers
Citizens’ Advice
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/
Holiday Help
Would you like help from the Foodbank during the summer holiday period? Please contact admin@freshfield.stockport.sch.uk or telephone 0161 442 6944 to request a voucher/letter from school.
School Uniform Help
The Foodbank will also be running a scheme to help with the cost of school uniform basics by providing vouchers to families to purchase school uniform from George at ASDA. When clients visit our centres during the Summer holidays to collect food parcels, they will receive information about how they can access help under this scheme.
For more details on the Foodbank, how they can help and where they are located please visit https://stockport.foodbank.org.uk/
School Uniform Support
School uniform support
Schools
Our schools are committed to helping families with accessing school uniform support. Contact your school for more information.
Family Support Vouchers
At the end of July 2024, families in receipt of local Council Tax Support/Housing Benefit and/or income-based Free School Meals will receive a voucher worth £105 per eligible child. These vouchers can be spent on school uniforms among other household essentials.
Resident Advice and Support Team
Our Resident Advice and Support team can also provide you with expert guidance and support, available Monday to Friday from 9.30am to 4pm. If you are facing cost-of-living challenges or need help navigating essential support services, then contact the team on 0161 474 2140. Or visit the online Cost-Of-Living Hub, where you can find advice on benefits and debt, support with food and energy bills, council tax payment assistance, pension credit information, and more.
School Uniform For All
We’re launching a new scheme in partnership with The Cherry Tree Project to help more families access school uniforms and achieve our climate action goals. The scheme will provide year-round support for those who need uniforms; for children at all Stockport schools and of all ages.
To help get the scheme up and running we need you to donate your pre-loved uniforms (good condition only) to:
- Any of Stockport’s 16 libraries
- Bredbury or Reddish Morrisons supermarkets
- Disability Stockport, 23 High Street, Stockport, SK1 1EG
- Age UK Stockport, Commonweal, 56 Wellington St, Stockport, SK1 3AQ
- Stockport Signpost for Carers, The Heatons Centre, Thornfield Road, Stockport, SK4 3LD
Once we have your uniforms the new scheme will then get underway later in the year.
