The Government has launched a scheme called 'Help for Households' amid the cost of living crisis. It brings together businesses that are offering deals and discounts to support people as prices continue to rise.
The offers available include ways to save on energy bills, groceries, retail and entertainment. It includes supermarkets like Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury's and Iceland. Other retailers have capped the cost on items like school uniforms.
Primark has also committed to protect the prices on more than a thousands essential kid's items to support parents across the UK who are struggling with the ever rising costs. David Buttress, Cost of Living Business advisor, said the cost of living crisis leaves businesses and the industry with a "unique challenge" and shared the support available.
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Buttress said: “The rising cost of living that we are all facing, both in the UK and globally, provides business and industry with a unique challenge and opportunity to do our bit.
"I am working closely with my private sector colleagues, to develop and promote new and existing business-led initiatives that support people with rising costs of living – from discounted prices or product offers to the expansion of business-run programmes.”
Here's all the deals you can get on your groceries:
Asda
Children aged 16 and under can get a hot or cold meal for £1 at any time of day in Asda cafés across the UK, 7 days a week, with no minimum adult spend. Asda are extending this offer to the end of 2022.
Morrisons
Morrisons are offering a free meal for 1 child under 16 when buying an adult meal with a value of £4.99 or over at in-store cafés.
Sainsbury’s
Sainsbury’s has introduced budget-friendly meal ideas to feed a family of four for less than £5. The recipes are available on the Recipe Scrapbook at Sainsburys.co.uk.
Iceland
Iceland is offering a number of cost saving initiative’s, including weekly discounts, product deals and frozen prices which are available in store, including £1 price freezes across 100s of lines for 2022, a weekly discount offering over 60s 10% off on Tuesdays & most recently The Iceland Food club, a partnership launch with Fair For You, to help families manage rising costs. There is also more to come in Autumn and into Christmas! Find out more here.
Central England Co-op
Central England Co-op is helping members and customers in their communities shop locally for less. With offers for members including discounted lunchtime meal deals and exclusive pricing on everyday essentials. As well as budget friendly recipe ideas available as a playlist here.
Muscle Food
MuscleFood has introduced budget-friendly hampers and initiatives to help families with the cost of living. Stock up for less with our Essentials Hamper (£30) and get quality meat at an affordable price to stock up your freezer. We’ve also introduced PayPal pay in 3 interest-free payments on our Christmas Hamper range, to help you spread the cost of Christmas and look forward to your Christmas Dinner stress-free.
Each hamper, from £65, includes your meat joint, trimmings, and even veg – Everything you need for your Christmas, even a Christmas Eve meal and Christmas breakfast. Find these offers here.
Cook My Grub
Cook My Grub is offering a discount when you pre-order fresh, healthy, authentic homemade food and ready meals from home chefs straight to your door. Apply the code: SAVE10 to get a 10% discount on every order placed on the website. Apply the offer code SAVE10 in the “offers” section when in the shopping cart page at checkout.
The retailers include:
Amazon
Amazon is offering 7 different ways that people can save money, including free delivery to pick up locations, affordable refurbished products, plus essential back to school offers.
Scholastic
Scholastic is offering parents and carers an extra 20% off our pricing on a huge range of children’s books when you buy through our School Book Clubs during September. For every order over £10, Scholastic will also donate an additional 20% of the total order value to your local school in free Rewards for them to spend on books for their libraries and classrooms. www.scholastic.co.uk/helpforhouseholds
M&S
M&S has frozen schoolwear prices across the UK, keeping 2022 prices at the same level as 2021. Their range of schoolwear clothing includes a 3 pack of Pure Cotton School Polo Shirts from £7 and a 2 pack of Pure Cotton School Jumpers from £11.
Shoe Zone
Shoe Zone is promoting a range of offers including £5 off when you join their email club, savings on selected styles, clearance deals and 2 for £12 multi-buy offers. Find out more here
Primark
Primark has committed to protect the prices on more than a thousand essential kids’ items. The commitment will mean that families can pick up some of its most popular essential items for the same price – underwear (from £3.50 for a 10-pack of briefs), sweatshirts (from £4.00), dresses (from £4.50) and jeans (from £6.00).
Stone Refurb
Stone Refurb sells refurbished laptops, desktops, monitors and tablets that it collects from public and private sector businesses which no longer require them, and data wipe and refurbish in house.
Customers can save £20 on a specific range of laptops and desktops from their Laptops for Home page by adding code HFH20 at the basket page. All devices come with a 1 year warranty for peace of mind. Find out more here.
Harper Collins
HarperCollins UK is offering 30% off one order per customer on its website. HarperCollins publishes authors including Bernard Cornwell, Hilary Mantel, Alice Oseman, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, David Walliams, Jonathan Franzen, Holly Jackson and Adele Parks. It is also home to bestselling series The Lord of the Rings, A Song of Ice and Fire (filmed as Game of Thrones), Divergent, The Chronicles of Narnia and Virgin River as well as legendary characters Miss Marple, Winnie-the-Pooh, and Mr Men & Little Miss.
To redeem click of the following link, add products to your basket and the discount will be applied automatically. Offer ends 30/11/2022. You can view the deal online here.
Utilities:
Octopus Energy
The energy provider recently doubled its OctoAssist Fund, for customers struggling with their bills, to over £5 million.
Voxi
Vodafone offers VOXI for Now which is the only mobile social tariff to help those experiencing financial hardship stay connected. The £10 per month plan supports anyone claiming Job Seeker’s Allowance, Universal Credit or Employment and Support Allowance, and includes unlimited 5G data, as well as unlimited calls and texts. There is no contract or credit check and customers can pause or cancel anytime.
Virgin Media O2
Essential Broadband is Virgin Media O2’s broadband social tariff for customers in receipt of Universal Credit. The tariff provides 15Mbps at a fixed price of £12.50/month on a 30 day rolling contract. The company waives early termination fees for customers who move to Essential Broadband from other tariffs. Further details can be found here
Utilita
Utilita customers can download the My Utilita app to save up to 20% on their energy spend with Smart Score. Customers can also apply for interest-free financial assistance via Power Up.
Save up to £426 on your home cooking costs with Utilita and Iceland’s new ‘Shop Smart, Cook Savvy’ campaign, and access money-off retail vouchers. Join millions of households on the Energy High 5 movement to save hundreds, and grab free, good quality football boots via the website.
Entertainment deals include:
Amazon
Amazon is offering 7 different ways that people can save money, including accessing free entertainment such as Freevee and Amazon Music, free educational resources for school-aged children and affordable refurbished products.
Cineworld
Families can access a range of offers including discounted screenings, tickets and snacks. There are also midweek deals available on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
ODEON
Treat the family to unforgettable big screen escapes. The Family Summer Saver pass is the perfect way to treat you and the kids to lasting memories at great value through the summer. Don’t miss out on this limited-time offer* from ODEON with tickets from £5. *Terms and conditions apply. Purchase requires a myODEON membership, which is fast and free to sign up here. Redemptions are valid between 1 August until 30 September 2022 (inclusive).
Health and Fitness:
Everyone Active
Everyone Active is offering adult gym memberships at a concessionary rate for the following groups:
- Seniors aged 66+
- Students aged 16-18 inclusive
- Those aged 19 and over, where in full time education
- Members in receipt of Universal Benefits (excluding Child and Working Tax Credit), or Full Time Carers Allowance
- Emergency Services personnel including NHS , St John’s Ambulance volunteers and Armed Forces
For more information about Everyone Active visit the website.
Offers on Travel:
National Express
Save 1/3 on coach travel! You can get up to a third off UK-wide coach travel with a National Express coach card. Save a third on coach travel with a National Express coach card.
Plymouth City Bus
Tap & Cap is the new, easy way to buy your travel. Simply tap when you get on board and tap again when you leave – no paper required! Unlimited bus travel across Plymouth from £20 per week.
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