Our offices will be closed on Monday 29th May for the Bank Holiday.

The Ballymena & Carrickfergus offices will be open again on Tuesday 30th May at 10am and the Larne office will be open on Wednesday 31st May at 10am.

Our offices will be closing for Easter on Thursday 6th April at 4pm.

Ballymena & Carrickfergus offices will be reopening on Monday 17th April at 10am and the Larne office will be reopening on Wednesday 19th April at 10am.

From Monday 16th January 2023 the East Antrim offices of Carrickfergus & Larne will be operating a shared face to face availability.

Carrickfergus office: Monday & Tuesday 10am-4pm

Larne office: Wednesday & Thursday 10am-4pm

All telephone, email and chat services remain available throughout the week as normal Monday-Friday 10am-4pm.

You can call us on 028 9600 1333 and press option 1 for reception or press option 2 for the advice line.

Contact us via email on advice@meacas.com

Our offices will be closing on Thursday 22nd December at 4pm for Christmas and we will be reopening again on Tuesday 3rd January 2023 at 10am.

Find out what discounts and offers are available from businesses to help with the cost of living.

 

Groceries

Asda

Children aged 16 and under can get a hot or cold meal for £1 at any time of day in Asda cafés across the UK, 7 days a week, with no minimum adult spend. Asda are extending this offer to the end of 2022.

Iceland

Iceland are offering a number of cost saving initiative’s, including weekly discounts, product deals and frozen prices which are available in store, including £1 price freezes across 100s of lines for 2022, a weekly discount offering over 60s 10% off on Tuesdays & most recently The Iceland Food club, a partnership launch with Fair For You, to help families manage rising costs. There is also more to come in Autumn and into Christmas! Find out more here: www.iceland.co.uk/doing-it-right

Sainsbury’s

Sainsbury’s have introduced budget-friendly meal ideas to feed a family of four for less than £5. The recipes are available on the Recipe Scrapbook at Sainsburys.co.uk.

 

Retail

M&S

M&S have frozen schoolwear prices across the UK, keeping 2022 prices at the same level as 2021. Their range of schoolwear clothing includes a 3 pack of Pure Cotton School Polo Shirts from £7 and a 2 pack of Pure Cotton School Jumpers from £11.

Shoe Zone

Shoe Zone is promoting a range of offers including £5 off when you join their email club, savings on selected styles, clearance deals and 2 for £12 multi-buy offers. Find out more here

Stone Refurb

Stone Refurb sell refurbished laptops, desktops, monitors and tablets that they collect from public and private sector businesses who no longer require them, and data wipe and refurbish in house. 
Customers can save £20 on a specific range of laptops and desktops from their Laptops for Home page by adding code HFH20at the basket page. All devices come with a 1 year warranty for peace of mind.
https://www.stonerefurb.co.uk/laptops/home-laptops (£6.95 to deliver to NI)

Scholastic

Scholastic are offering parents and carers an extra 20% off our pricing on a huge range of children’s books when you buy through our School Book Clubs during September. For every order over £10, Scholastic will also donate an additional 20% of the total order value to your local school in free Rewards for them to spend on books for their libraries and classrooms.

www.scholastic.co.uk/helpforhouseholds

Primark

Primark has committed to protect the prices on more than a thousand essential kids’ items. The commitment will mean that families can pick up some of its most popular essential items for the same price – underwear (from £3.50 for a 10-pack of briefs), sweatshirts (from £4.00), dresses (from £4.50) and jeans (from £6.00).

Amazon

Amazon is offering 7 different waysthat people can save money, including free delivery to pick up locations, affordable refurbished products, plus essential back to school offers.

Harper Collins

HarperCollins UK is offering 30% off one order per customer on its website. HarperCollins publishes incredible authors including Bernard Cornwell, Hilary Mantel, Alice Oseman, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, David Walliams, Jonathan Franzen, Holly Jackson and Adele Parks. It is also home to bestselling series The Lord of the Rings, A Song of Ice and Fire (filmed as Game of Thrones), Divergent, The Chronicles of Narnia and Virgin River as well as legendary characters Miss Marple, Winnie-the-Pooh, and Mr Men & Little Miss.

To redeem click of the following link, add products to your basket and the discount will be applied automatically. Offer ends 30/11/2022. https://harpercollins.co.uk/discount/HOUSEHOLDS30

Utilities

Octopus

Octopus Energy recently doubled its OctoAssist Fund, for customers struggling with their bills, to over £5 million.

Voxi

Vodafone offers VOXI for Now which is the only mobile social tariff to help those experiencing financial hardship stay connected. The £10 per month plan supports anyone claiming Job Seeker’s Allowance, Universal Credit or Employment and Support Allowance, and includes unlimited 5G data, as well as unlimited calls and texts. There is no contract or credit check and customers can pause or cancel anytime.

Virgin Media O2

Essential Broadband is Virgin Media O2’s broadband social tariff for customers in receipt of Universal Credit. The tariff provides 15Mbps at a fixed price of £12.50/month on a 30 day rolling contract. The company waives early termination fees for customers who move to Essential Broadband from other tariffs. Further details can be found here

Our Pop-up shops are now open across Mid and East Antrim. Pictured below are Michele Campbell Operations Director MEACAS, Mayor of Mid and East Antrim, Ald Noel Williams and Jackie Patton Head of Community Planning and Development Mid and East Antrim.

To date, a total of 1,916 items have been collected by 474 families with an estimated total saving of £16,762.

The uniforms are free to collect throughout August 2022 across three locations from 10am – 4pm Monday to Friday (closed for lunch 1-1:30). Shops below:

Ballymena – Tower Centre

Carrickfergus – De Courcy Centre

Larne – Main Street