Check whether you live in a low-income neighbourhood
Enter your postcode and click 'Get Deprivation Data'.
The website will produce an Excel document. Please click the light green 'xlsx' icon under 'Download your custom deprivation data', and the Excel document will download.
When you open the spreadsheet, you will see a range of columns. Look in column F. This column should be titled 'Index of Multiple Deprivation Decile', and the information in the column should be a number between 1 and 10.
In order for your postcode to be eligible, this number needs to be 1, 2, 3, or 4.
If your postcode is a 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10, it is not eligible on this criteria.
NB: Deprivation data comes from the government. It is used to compare relative deprivation rates between neighbourhoods, and not to label a particular postcode or its residents as being deprived. The categories created – referred to as deciles – take into account a wide range of information about different postcode areas, including household income, employment rates, access to education, skills, and training, health and disability, crime, barriers to housing services, and living environment.