Financial Support

We can offer financial support to help you in your independence to adulthood. This can include:

• support to open a bank account. 
• help to access your junior ISA account.
• support budgeting and managing your money.
• support to obtain photographic identification such as passport and provisional driving licence. 
• providing you with equivalent Universal Credit payments whilst your claim is being set up. 
• supporting you to access financial support in an emergency such as if you are struggling with your energy bills. 
• supporting you to access debt advice charities and helping you with this process.
• applying for an all-zone Tyne and Wear travel pass to help you stay connected and independence, also known as the POP card.
• making applications on your behalf to partnership charity grants to fund driving lessons, theory tests and practical tests or to achieve aspirations and in times of financial hardship. 
• a subsidised gym membership for those aged 16-21.