COST OF LIVING CRISIS

As we see the winter months creeping upon us and ever-rising costs, we will be supporting people at the piercing end of the cost-of-living crisis. Our services operate in North Kensington where we work with hundreds of residents struggling to make ends meet. 

Our services are already seeing an increased demand from people who need our help, we will continue to be there for everyone that needs us. Our dedicated staff and volunteers are working hard to help alleviate some of the stresses by signposting and completing referrals for energy grants and other local organisations who have pledged to support individuals during this time.

We work closely with food banks across all our services so that people are not going without essentials they can no longer afford.

• 34% of RBKC residents are from a BAME background (ONS 19/20/21) 
• More than 1in5 (23%) RBKC neighbourhoods are among the 20% most income deprived in England (MHCLG 2019)
• 1in4 (24.4%) children in RBKC lived in poverty in 2019/2020 (Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University for End Child Poverty) 
• Deprivation in RBKC is not a new phenomenon, but the Grenfell Tower fire and Covid-19 pandemic have highlighted and intensified the issue (K&C Foundation)
• In 2020, almost 1in5 (18.1%) jobs in RBKC paid less than the London Living Wage
• In our local ward alone, 76% of households suffer from at least one form of deprivation around income, education, health or housing (data from Clement James website)
• 6,000 children and young people in Kensington and Chelsea are living in poverty (after housing costs), 45% of whom live in just three north Kensington wards: Notting Dale (where we are situated), Golborne and Dalgarno (data from Clement James website)