Still time for voluntary and community groups, charities and social enterprises across North Northamptonshire to apply to locally deliver central government funding
09 June 2026
Voluntary and community groups, charities and social enterprises across North Northamptonshire have been invited to bid for funding to help deliver the UK Government's Crisis Resilience Fund across communities. Not-for-profit organisations for specified purposes can also apply.
The key aim of the Crisis Resilience Fund is to strengthen future longer-term financial resilience across households living in North Northamptonshire. The council will receive £13.18 million over three years to run the scheme. The use of the fund will aim to reduce material deprivation; reduce emergency food use; increase household income through benefit take-up; reduce priority debt; support safe and stable housing; lower repeat crisis applications and strengthen the local Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector.
National guidance requires councils to deliver the four linked strands below. The council is already delivering the Housing Payments and is set to deliver the Crisis Payments from July.
1. Crisis Payments
2. Housing Payments
3. Financial Resilience Services and
4. Community Coordination
We are looking for Expressions of Interest to deliver The Financial Resilience Services and the Community Coordination. Applications are open for £500,000 for the Financial Resilience Services and £680,000 for the Community Coordination until June 17, 2026.
We welcome applications from organisations acting as a lead provider where the proposal is to deliver the service through a collaboration of organisations. Applications will only be accepted from organisations whose activities are not carried out for profit, that are properly constituted, efficiently run, subject to prudent financial management and adhere to our governance requirements.
The Crisis and Resilience Fund (CRF) is a new three-year programme delivered by Local Authorities on behalf of UK Government, scheduled to operate from April 2026 to March 2029.Cllr Councillor Gregory Wilcox, North Northamptonshire Council's Executive Member for Communities
It replaces previous short-term hardship schemes, such as the Household Support Fund, with a clearer and a more sustainable model that provides fast financial assistance, by way of payment to households experiencing a financial crisis.
I urge organisations to come forward to support with this vital piece of work and get the support to residents out there who so desperately need it.
The council has written to a large number of organisations across North Northamptonshire but if they have not received this correspondence they are being urged to contact [email protected] to request documentation.