How to win: Crisis Resilience Fund - Eligibility & Resilience Services

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The Crisis and Resilience Fund replaces the Household Support Fund and is intended to provide crisis support to households experiencing financial hardship, helping residents meet essential living costs and build longer‑term resilience. Local Authorities are required to deliver support quickly, transparently, and in a way that maintains accountability for public funds. The Fund is intended to cover a wide range of low-income households in need including pensioners, unpaid carers, care leavers, disabled people, families with children of all ages, and single-person households, and those struggling with one-off financial shocks or unforeseen events. In line with the grant criteria, the funding should be allocated across two strands: • Crisis Payments: A cash-equivalent approach to meet urgent needs (food, utilities, essential goods). This should be a multi-channel application-based process, allowing for individuals to self-refer. The fund should be available year-round, with flexible eligibility for low-income households and those facing a financial shock. Crisis payments should be person centred, trauma informed and needs based. • Resilience Services: Initiatives to build financial r

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• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — Hampshire County Council scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓At £6,200,000, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins services work.
• ✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar services contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
• ✓Start early: it closes 20 July 2026 and a strong bid takes iteration.

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