Cutting costs for disabled children's families

Heywood & Middleton MP Jim Dobbin is encouraging local families with disabled children to use Family Fund Extra, a free-to-join online buying club that offers discounts on thousands of products and services.

Mr Dobbin said: “Since 2008, the government has allocated £770 million to improve services for disabled children. Family Fund Extra will help families with disabled children in Heywood & Middleton make their money go further.”

National charity the Family Fund is behind the new website, which offers online discounts from leading high street names. 

Chief Executive Derek Walpole said: “The Family Fund is always looking for new ways for disabled children’s families to keep their costs down.”

Family Fund Extra was launched on Wednesday 25 February in the House of Commons by Children’s Secretary Ed Balls, who said: “For thousands of families, week by week, year by year, this will make daily life better.”

As well as offering reductions for disabled children’s families, Extra also enables anyone at all to help disabled children while shopping online.

Derek Walpole explained: “One click from the Extra website takes you to Amazon, Trainline and a hundred other sites. You pay the same and they give the Family Fund a small commission to help severely disabled children.”

The Family Fund makes grants worth £30 million to 48,000 disabled children’s families a year for the things they need.

Visit: www.familyfundextra.org.uk