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Show your support for UNISON There for You by doing something magnificent today!
I am delighted to attach our review for 2016 illustrating just how, There for You, UNISON’s own charity, helped members and what we achieved.
Many of those …Read more…
My Conference day started with a short jog up and down the famous Brighton beach. The weather was hot even at 7.30am.
At 8.30am we had our first UNISON NEC meeting to discuss and (hopefully) agree on any outstanding matters or policy positions.
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UNISON Housing Association Branch Welfare Officer Mitsy holds a surgery for members in the Resource for London cafe, 356 Holloway Road, London, N7 6PA every second Thursday 10-3pm. The next one is due this Thursday 8 June.
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As we move into summer, the new school year starts to loom, and with it, worries over the cost of new school uniforms – but UNISON can help. If you’re a member and need help with the costs of new…Read more…
I am so proud that UNISON has its own Charity fund for members on low income or facing financial or other hardship. Working class trade unionists banding together to help each over in times of difficulty or crisis is pretty much what we should be all a…Read more…
“Members experiencing financial and emotional difficulties can contact our welfare charity, There for You, which provides a confidential advice and support service for members and their dependants”.
UNISON “There for You” is something that many of its…Read more…
More than 600 UNISON members struggling to pay for their heating, have been awarded over £30,000 thanks to UNISON’s dedicated welfare charity, There For You.
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As Britain succumbs to a poverty crisis, food banks are calling on people’s support to help those less fortunate, including children, who are facing hunger
The article Food banks hope to give…Read more…
Application forms for this years winter £50 fuel grants from UNISON charity arm “There for You” are now out.
In a welcome pilot this year UNISON members will be entitled to claim if they are in receipt of Housing benefit which should make it simpler to claim for many, especially if they…Read more…
‘Thousands die each winter because they cannot afford to heat their homes’, union and campaign group Fuel Poverty Action warn
The article UNISON calls for energy equality for the UK’s…Read more…
Cavell Trust research shows importance of union’s support for members as well as campaigning and negotiation on ‘an issue for everyone’
The article Nursing professionals ‘more likely to…Read more…
Picture from Sunday, when fellow Newham Councillor, Terry Paul and myself completed a self organised Triathlon (using google maps) starting and ending in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford, London.
This was not a race and ther…Read more…
Just getting things sorted for tomorrows self organised Olympic distance triathlon. Currently I am wondering why do I volunteer for such things!
I am meeting fellow Newham Councillor, Terry Paul, at the London Aquatic centre in Queen Elizabeth O…Read more…
I have finally got my act together and am planning to complete an Olympic distance Triathlon with fellow West Ham Labour Councillor, Terry Paul, in Newham on Sunday 18 September 2016. We will invite all other Newham Councillors (and anyone else) to tak…Read more…
UNISON’s special charity for its own members “there for you” is helping low paid families to meet the cost of providing school uniforms. If your net earned (work) income is less than £18,000 per year (see below) and you have savings of less than £800 then you can get £40 per child uniform grants…Read more…
Union’s welfare charity seeks applications from experienced UNISON activists to fill six elected positions on board of trustees
The article Want to be a trustee of There for you? first appeared on…Read more…
UNISON welfare charity There for you wants you to help raise funds in this year’s Pyrenees walk challenge
The article Can you help raise funds for our welfare charity first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
WORRIED ABOUT PAYING YOUR WINTER FUEL BILL?
With rising fuel costs and another cold winter looming many members on low income are worried about how they’re going to pay their winter fuel bills.
Help is on hand
‘There for You’ has set up a limited fu…Read more…
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I was shocked to hear the sad news that UNISON stalwart, June Poole, has passed away after a short illness. We were supposed to meet yesterday at the UNISON centre in London for a Board meeting of the Welfare Trustees.This meeting was cancelled out of …Read more…