Find help with the cost of living in Derry and Strabane

Struggling with the cost of living in the Derry City & Strabane council area? Know somebody living locally who needs support with food, fuel or warmth? Derry City & Strabane District Council has collected details for support services and community organisations in one place.

Access the cost of living support site

The site features sections on finances, bills, food, fuel, warm spaces, community centres and more.

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What can we learn from the global schools at the front line of air quality action?

Developing lungs. Closer to the ground. Everyone suffers when air quality is poor, but the World Health Organization is clear in its assessment that children suffer more.
Does money make you healthy?

Being wealthy adds nine years to healthy life expectancy, but how does it work in practice?
How Aberdeen's district heating scheme helped slash fuel bills

District heating is completely normal. So why are there so few heat network schemes in Northern Ireland
Rethinking obesity for good

This World Obesity Day (4 March) we're opening our minds to system-level solutions

What can we learn from the global schools at the front line of air quality action?

Developing lungs. Closer to the ground. Everyone suffers when air quality is poor, but the World Health Organization is clear in its assessment that children suffer more.
Does money make you healthy?

Being wealthy adds nine years to healthy life expectancy, but how does it work in practice?
How Aberdeen's district heating scheme helped slash fuel bills

District heating is completely normal. So why are there so few heat network schemes in Northern Ireland
Rethinking obesity for good

This World Obesity Day (4 March) we're opening our minds to system-level solutions
Six community wellbeing projects in the north west awarded £388k in funding

Projects include supporting women with a learning disability through menopause, bringing together rural and urban communities to alleviate poor mental wellbeing and food poverty, and a mural based on the stories of cancer survivors in Derry City Centre
Celebrating 30 years of Developing Healthy Communities

Looking back on an amazing series of 30th anniversary events (in pictures). This year we celebrated 30 years of Developing Healthy Communities through community participation, cooperation and consultation in local decision-making.
Mayor celebrates WHO Healthy City designation for Derry & Strabane

“The experts are telling us we’re on the right track.” Derry City & Strabane is a World Health Organization Healthy City and District for the third time
Join the Healthy Cities Community in Derry City & Strabane

You can expect regular emails full of energy and ideas, as well as opportunities to get involved.
Watch every presentation from Building Healthy Neighbourhoods

Watch back the best bits from our 'Shared lessons from the Neighbourhood Health Improvement Project' event
Building healthy neighbourhoods: Shared learning from the Neighbourhood Health Improvement Project

Join us on Zoom to hear public health experts and those working on the ground in Derry City, Strabane and Limavady discuss what really works when it comes to neighbourhood health.