WINTER FUEL GRANTS PROGRAMME – UPDATE

WINTER FUEL GRANTS PROGRAMME – UPDATE
Please note the launch of the following scheme and advertise widely with your members.
Please find attached a copy of the Winter Fuel Grants application form that will be used when the scheme is launched on 3 January 2012.

As well as an advert in the next edition of UMagazine alerting all members to this initiative, the following notice will feature in the next E:focus bulletin:
‘THERE FOR YOU’ LAUNCHES ITS 2012 WINTER FUEL GRANTS PROGRAMME
With rising fuel costs affecting many UNISON members, ‘There for you’ starts the New Year with launch of its Winter Fuel Grants programme.  Grants of up to £50 per household are available and application must be made by 29 February 2012.  For further information and to download an application form, visit www.unison.org.uk/thereforyou or call 020 7121 5620.  A flyer that can be used to publicise this initiative is also available to branches to download.  There for you is the working name of UNISON Welfare, the charity exclusively for UNISON members. 
The web pages will be updated to include the following message and application form. 
THERE FOR YOU LAUNCHES ITS WINTER FUEL GRANTS PROGRAMME 2012
With rising fuel costs affecting many UNISON members, ‘There for you’ starts the New Year with the launch of its Winter Fuel Grants programme.  Grants of up to £50 per household are available to members on low income.  Apply by completing the ‘Winter Fuel Grants’ application form which is available to download.  Alternatively  call 020 7 121 5620 if you’d like to receive a form through the post. 
Please note that this is a limited fund (conditions apply) with grants of up to £50 available to members on  low income.
Applications must be received by 29 February 2012.