Are you a single person or a widower?

Do you live alone?

Are you over retirement age?

Do you live in Kettering town, including Barton Seagrave?

If you can answer "yes" to all these questions, you may be entitled to a fuel grant from the Kettering Charities this winter.

Applicants MUST be on a low income of less than £300 a week.

Applications are now open and the closing date is Thursday 30 November 2023. Grants will be awarded before Christmas.

Kettering Foodbank
Unit B, The Courtyard, 1 Horsemarket, Kettering NN16 0DG
Tuesday 10am to 1pm
Wednesday 10am to 1pm
Thursday 11am to 12:30pm
Saturday 10am to 1pm

St Peter and St Paul Soup Kitchen
Market Place, Kettering NN16 0AN
Thursday 4 to 6pm
Offering soup, bread, food and items donated by the community.

Click on the link below for a list of all food banks and meals services in Kettering.

Street harassment is not OK

A new, free smartphone app – Flare Report – has been launched to help women and girls feel and be safer on the streets of Northamptonshire.

Flare Report app allows women to quickly and anonymously make a report about inappropriate behaviour on the street. It's not for emergencies, Flare Report is a way to tell the police about street harassment and similar incidents. Most women do not report incidents of street harassment – like cat-calling or inappropriate behaviour – so the information submitted on Flare Report will help build a clearer picture of what is happening in the county. This will enable the police and other partners to understand where inappropriate behaviour is happening, and take action to stop it.

Flare is free to download and can be installed on any mobile device.

Grange Community Hub, at Grange Primary Academy, is a multi purpose facility run by the Grange community for all the people of the Grange community.

They are currently running a series of groups and activities. Find out more on the Grange Community Hub web pages.