£4,000 of food vouchers are to be handed out by Ryde Town Council as part of the ongoing fight against the cost-of-living crisis.
Thanks to grant funding from Connect4Communities, members of the Ryde community can now benefit from additional support; £25 for a single person, £50 for a couple and £75 for a family.
The vouchers can be used for groceries in Iceland or Co-op.
After just 1 week of the scheme over £2,000 of food vouchers have already been claimed, but there are still £2,000 of vouchers available and it is hoped the scheme will be extended with further funding in April.
To obtain a voucher, you must be referred by NHS Social Prescribers (via GP surgeries), the Living Well Outreach Workers, Citizens Advice at Ryde Library or Men Only IOW at The Depository.
Alison Pearce, Ryde Community Development Officer, says:
“We want to help those who are just about managing and have tried to make the process as simple as possible. We ask you to contact one of the referrers so that you can get any other support (if needed) and they will organise a voucher for you. However, we can’t give vouchers to people who have had vouchers sent to them directly by Connect4Communities – there is a criteria on the client declaration that the funders have asked us to put in.”
People who haven’t had any vouchers sent to them directly from another source are eligible.
Those who aren’t eligible because they would have had them sent directly include:
- Isle of Wight Council foster carers
- Care leavers over the age of 18
- Registered/have a child in receipt of a Gateway card via Isle of Wight Council Short Breaks
- Only in receipt of housing benefit
- In receipt of Local Council Tax Support, but not on a passported benefit
- Registered with the Isle of Wight Council No Barriers Team
Just get a job, full employment, so no excuses now.
If YOU can’t feed it, then don’t breed it.
Yet again, nothing here for workers.
There is something here for workers, YOU will be paying for it.
Surely that gives you a warm glow inside when you see many of the families children in receipt of this smashing up your property, or beating your children senseless, or other anti social behaviour?
I would not donate to such only help the aged, for most of those in receipt of such are just lazy, druggy, drunken, spongers who will already fund via taxes so why give more to people who see charity as ‘their right’ and never grateful, and see those giving as not ‘kind’ but weak to exploit.
Any money they save from not buying food will be ill spent for sure.
The workers are fully involved.
YOU will be funding this by higher food prices, to give to those whose children will be vandalising your property, or being anti social as their parent, rarely parents don’t pay any council tax or rent, so could not care less if our bills rise.
Give them nothing as they get more than enough from us via taxes and council tax now.
If the government spends tax on things how come it’s in debt?
We switched from real money to fake money, now the government only creates money (Gives it out to people or companies) and destroys money (Take tax)
It’s not your tax
And ironically giving money to poor people is better for the economy, they spend it right away. It’s liquid, it’s being used as money to transfer value. If they gave you or I that “up to” £75 it’d probably sit in our bank accounts until we are dead.
Money. The money people put into their bank accounts Doesn’t just SIT there awaiting them to withdraw it.
The bank lends it out to make profit so not dead money and helps businesses and individuals gain loans
The Government does not just print money. It has to sell bonds to investors which it then guarantee’s to pay back after a fixed term and pays them interest annually on that loan.
NHS staff are looking for large pay increases.
They are lucky to have so many perks working for the NHS
So many Companies give them discounts that total thousands of pounds.
Yet Military personel get no perks.
The whole benefit system / wage structures are unfair,
NHS staff are looking for large pay increases.
They are lucky to have so many perks working for the NHS
So many Companies give them discounts that total thousands of pounds.
Yet Military personel get no perks.
The whole benefit system / wage structures are unfair.