A map of all available locations in Perth and Kinross is now available on the Perth & Kinross Council website.

Councillors approved £470,000 funding to support community groups this winter when they met in September.

This included £150,000 to support organisations opening their doors to provide warm spaces and £170,000 for community groups and organisations to purchase and distribute warm home packs and provide food.

There will also be £120,000 for Cost-of-Living crisis payments to kinship and foster carers.

So far, 87 applications have been received by the local authority. Fifty awards have been made to support warm spaces so far, worth a total value of £111,098.

Another 52 awards have been made to groups looking to provide food and warm home packs, worth a combined £187,504. Warm home packs can include items such as hot water bottles, blankets and flasks.

On Wednesday, Councillors approved the Local Child Poverty Action Plan for 2022/23, which sets out action that Council will take to address child poverty in the short and long term.

Perth & Kinross Council has recently established an Anti-Poverty Taskforce to look at ways to help the area’s most vulnerable residents through the Cost-of-Living crisis and to give them greater opportunities in the future. This will see the Council work with partner agencies, businesses, third sector organisations and communities to co-ordinate the response to the crisis.

Perth & Kinross council leader Councillor Grant Laing, said: “Over the last year, the Council has committed £5.2 million to help families and vulnerable residents through the Cost-of-Living Crisis.

“This support will provide everyone with access to safe, welcoming and warm places whatever their circumstances. Some will provide activities, others will serve food and some are just places people can go and visit. Whatever the location, everybody will be guaranteed a warm welcome.”