If you receive benefits and are pregnant, or have a child aged under four, you can apply for a free Healthy Start Card. With the card you can buy milk, fruit and vegetables, infant formula milk, and vitamins. Visit the website to apply. Or speak to your doctor, midwife, or health visitor.

Rose Vouchers help families on low incomes buy fresh fruit and vegetables. Families receive £4 of Rose Vouchers for each child aged under 5, and each older sibling up to the age 11, every week; or £6 if the child is under one year old. Children's Centres issue the voucher, ask staff if they are part of the scheme.

Carers' Hub Lambeth supports unpaid carers aged five upwards. They offer peer support groups for both young and adult carers, plus tailored support from the Carers Hub team.

FamilyLine can support adult family members via telephone, text, email and web chat. They can listen with your parenting questions or offer guidance other issues.

Free Cakes for Kids Lambeth provides free birthday cakes to families on low incomes across the borough. An organisation can refer you (e.g. advice centre, faith group, school, nursery, etc,.) Email or contact via website.

Get Rid of and Donate provide free clothing, shoes, and other living essentials for people in need. People can self-refer or be referred by organisations. Donations also welcome.

Kinship offers advice and support for kinship carers. Kinship care is when a child lives full-time or most of the time with a relative or friend who isn’t their parent, usually because their parents aren’t able to care for them.

Kinship Carers Cooking Club is a free, online group where children and carers can cook a meal from scratch. For Kinship Hub members receive ingredients and recipe card deliverd direct to you. Plus, a link to join for online cook-along. In person cooking sessions also offered in south London.

LEAP works with families during pregnancy and children aged 0-3 years, in Coldharbour, Stockwell, Tulse Hill and Vassall ward. They offer a range of services including around breast-feeding, nutrition, parenting, literacy, wellbeing, etc,.

LEAP Befrienders help parents with children 0-18 months old. Meet a local mum who knows about activities and services for young children in your area.

Are you a Lambeth parent/carer, who would like to support other parents/carers with a child aged 0-3 years? LEAP Parent Champion volunteers provide outreach and signposting support to other parents about LEAP services and other local early years activities. Free training provided. For details contact the Parent Champions team.

Telephone suppport and sign-posting for Portuguese people facing language barriers. Portuguese speaking.

Little Village is like a food bank, but for clothes, toys and equipment for babies and children up to the age of 5. They accept referrals from professional and voluntary organisations working with families in an official capacity. They accept donations of quality goods.

A community shop offering members healthy, affordable food. Pay £2.50 or £5 for fresh fruit, vegetables, and store cupboard goods. For families with children aged 0-4 years.

St. Michael's Fellowship offers a range of support to parents in residential centres and in the community. They offer support around relationship issues, parenting, domestic abuse, and much more.

A community shop offering members healthy, affordable food. Pay £2.50 or £5 for fresh fruit, vegetables, and store cupboard goods. For families with children aged 0-4 years.

The Small Project is a baby clothes library. They offer free bundles of clothes and other baby items to families in need. People can return as their babies grow and need larger clothing. They also accept donations of good quality baby clothes and equipment (0-3 years). Email to register.

The programme provides items for children like a bed to sleep in, a cooker to provide a hot meal, and other items or services critical to a child’s wellbeing. All applications must be made by a registered referrer.

Family Action offers grants to young people over the age of 14 planning to go to further education. The scheme supports individuals to begin their studies as well as existing students to continue and complete their studies.

Welfare grants programme provides grants for essential personal and household needs to assist families and individuals with low incomes, particularly those living on benefits. Funding is also available for recuperative holidays for women who are resident in greater London.

The Family Fund supports low-income parents and carers of a child disabled or seriously ill aged 17 or under. Deadline ongoing.

The Herne Hill Solidarity Fund is a community money pot for neighbours who are struggling to buy essentials. There are no conditions to apply for the fund, other than being a resident of SE24.

Lambeth Council's Emergency Support Scheme is open to residents with a household income of less than £30,000 per year or receiving benefits. It includes help with high street vouchers, food vouchers, fuel payments, buying second-hand furniture, refurbished washing machine, cooker, fridge, handy-man service, removals and storage service. Visit website for full details. Email for support to apply or apply online.

South London Relief in Sickness Fund provides one-off grants of up to £300 (average £130) for people who are mentally or physically ill or disabled and who are in financial need. The grants can be used to purchase items such as furniture, kitchen goods, clothing, holidays, etc.

Walcot Foundation offers grants to Lambeth residents on a low income towards a first degree or a vocational (work related) qualification. Eligible costs can include course fees; travel costs; books; special clothing; equipment; study/field trips and childcare.​ Visit website or call for more information.