PCC Helps - The PCC's Financial Assistance Programme
The PCC's Financial Assistance Programmes are designed to provide independence, choice, dignity and security for those who work or have worked in the printing, publishing and graphic trades. Each year, the PCC currently supports around 500 people through our various grant programmes.
We have two main grant programmes:
Regular Financial Assistance (R.F.A.) Programme
This is a payment of up to £20 per week towards heating, water, food and basic outgoings. These payments are reviewed on a six-monthly basis but all grants given are distributed in advance payments of £520.
General Grants
The PCC provides wide range of general grants to fund a vast range of specific needs.
Examples include:
- Home adaptation grants
- Nursing or care home top-up grants to help meet overall fees
- Mobility grants
- Grants to fund respite care
- Holiday grants for carers
- Contributions towards the costs of convalescent care
- Financial help to aid independent living
- Grants for those with hearing/sight difficulties
Who do we help?
If you have worked for more than five years within one of the following areas, you and/or your dependents, may qualify for support from the PCC.
- Advertising Sales Book binders
- Digital Print companies/operators
- Distribution connected to the print industry
- Graphic artists
- Ink-makers
- Journalists/Artists/Cartoonists
- Machine Manufacturers
- Management/Administration and Support Staff
- Manufacture of binding machinery
- Manufacture of foundry machinery
- Manufacture of printing machinery
- Manufacture of type setting machinery
- Paper-makers
- Plate-makers
- Print related Library/Research/Archives
- Print related photographers
- Print room Operators
- Printing educationalists
- Publishing
- Quick Print companies/operators
- Sales
- Stationers
- Warehousing of books
- Warehousing of ink
- Warehousing of paper
- Warehousing of printing materials
- Waste connected to the printing trade
All applicants to the PCC must be prepared to make a full and open declaration on their capital and income from all sources including state benefits, and any other money from charitable sources. If you are in doubt about your eligibility, or have any other enquiry regarding the support we provide, please contact us. The PCC works in collaboration with other charities and organisations and we may be able to provide advice to applicants concerning other possible sources of financial help.
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The PCC has made such a big difference to my life. - KAK Cirencester |
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The photographic equipment purchased will enable me to work through the difficulties caused by my disability. - GW Redruth |
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