Welfare care and Support

Who can benefit: those families, individuals and dependants who are or have been primarily engaged in the electrical and electronics industries and allied sciences and industries

Who can’t benefit: those whose connection with the electrical and electronics industries is slight (noting that signposting to other organisations who may be able to help is offered)

What we do: EEIBA’s welfare care programmes centre around these broad groups of need:

• crisis resolution and support
• ameliorating the impact of disability
• the effect of low income and savings
• social exclusion

EEIBA does this by:

• sourcing benefits and allowances
• ensuring applicants apply for State benefits and allowances
• collaborating with and seeking funding from other charities and benefit networks
• signposting to other providers of support – particularly when EEIBA cannot help
• making financial grants (either weekly or one-off)
• offering practical guidance

How EEIBA helps

Providing grants or loans for:

• adaptations and changes to a home
• household repairs and maintenance

Giving financial grants towards:

• household bills (rent, mortgage, energy, Council tax)
• medical and mobility equipment
• funeral expenses
• household items
• clothing and school uniforms
• holidays
• respite care
• immediate needs
• crisis situation/emergency aid
• travel expenses (hospital visits)
• payment of services
• provision of facilities

and to other charities and organisations in support of eligible applicants.

What we don’t do:

• private medical care and private treatment
• private education
• further education fees
• residential and care home fees (except Careways Trust nominees and former Brooke House residents)
• bankruptcy fees
• headstones and funeral plaques

Sheltered accommodation

Buckingham Court, in the leafy Selly Oak suburb of Birmingham, provides sheltered accommodation, with excellent facilities and amenities for the retired community.There are are 19 self contained flats with an alarm call system and there is a laundry and residents' lounge, as well as quiet gardens and grounds.

Acquired from the EEIBA by Careways Trust, Buckingham Court will see improvements over the next few years as part of a programme to enhance the facilities still further.

If you are interested contact Careways Trust at: First Floor, Burfree House, Teville Road, Worthing, West Sussex, BN11 1AZ or telephone 01903 276030.