Food2care
About the offer: Food2care is an initiative that is working with the Federation of Wholesale Distributors to support care providers to get access to food supplies, with a website that provides details of local wholesale food distributors offering their service to care providers during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Eligibility: The website provides a postcode-based search function to identify local wholesalers and their delivery areas.
How to use the offer: Visit the Food2care website: https://www.food2care.co.uk/
Iceland
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About the offer: Iceland is offering care staff regular access to dedicated online weekly shopping slots. These are every Friday from 9am to 11am, for deliveries the following Monday.
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Who is it for: Adult social care employees.
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What do I need to do? Please distribute one of the personal passphrases that has been emailed to you, to each of the employees in your location. This will enable them to access the Iceland priority delivery slots for social care staff.
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How employees can use the offer:
- Register for an account on Iceland’s website: https://www.iceland.co.uk/account/register
- Go to the ‘My Account’ area
- Enter their personal passphrase (made up of three words).
This will enable them to access priority delivery slots for social care staff on a weekly basis.
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What if I don’t have enough codes? We have allocated a proportion of the 1m codes to each employer based on the size of their workforce. The allocation of codes is based on Skills for Care’s analysis of the Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set. Although we are not able to take into account any updates to workforce data to revise the allocation of these specific codes, having accurate information will ensure Skills for Care are best placed to help implement any similar initiatives in the future. You can revise your data by entering your latest information on the following website: https://asc-wds.skillsforcare.org.uk/login.
Morrisons
About the offer: The supermarket chain Morrisons have developed food boxes (with meat or vegetarian). These contain groceries to feed two adults for a week and other essential household items. The boxes are priced at £30 each and have free delivery for NHS and social care staff (equivalent of £5 discount).
Eligibility: The offer is available to everyone with an NHS email account. See below for details.
How to use the offer:
1. Visit the dedicated Morrison’s NHS Food Box website: https://www.morrisons.com/food-boxes-nhs
2. Register for an account using an NHS email address
3. Start shopping
Blue light card
About the offer: The Blue Light Card offers a range of online (and in-store) discounts across retailers including food, telecoms and insurance.
Eligibility: Available to all NHS and social care staff for a cost of £4.99 for 2 years.
How to use the offer: There are four steps:
1. Provide your home address
2. Upload a piece of ID to the website
3. Enter a work address for the card to be posted to
4. Employer distributes the card to the employee on receipt.
You can start now by visiting the website: https://www.bluelightcard.co.uk/index.php
Discounts for carers
About the offer: Discounts for Carers offers a range of online (and in-store) discounts across retailers in several sectors (e.g. food, utilities, finance, motoring). It also offers a cashback card that allows members to save up to 12% across 50 popular retailers.
Eligibility: Discounts are available to all carers including: employees, self-employed, retired, unpaid or volunteer carers.
How to use the offer: Individuals can register for free on the website: https://www.discountsforcarers.com/register-1
Annex - How to sign up for an NHS email account
Fast access to NHSMail accounts for social care providers can be accessed at https://www.digitalsocialcare.co.uk/covid-19-guidance/covid-19-quick-access-to-nhsmail/
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