A sum of money made available for people experiencing severe financial difficulties.
the union has donated £10,000 from its hardship fund to help support the striking members
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- The money is vital to sustain the hardship fund.
- Apply to your college for extra help in the form of hardship funds.
- Asked how a hardship fund would be administered, he said that the department had sufficient expertise to devise a scheme.
- We are collecting for the firefighters' hardship fund.
- Further cash will be available through individual colleges' existing hardship funds.
- The union has taken out a loan of £45,000 to establish a hardship fund.
- The hardship fund announced on April 16 allows endangered small businesses to save up to £1, 250 in emergency rate relief.
- Students are being offered help from a record £1.7 million hardship fund to cope with costs of further education.
- Families who find themselves below the poverty line can apply for a payment from the hardship fund.
- The stallholders who did put up stalls set up a collection for the strikers' hardship fund.