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- Additional learning experiences/opportunities
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  - Learning a new language
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  - Research
  - Student exchange
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- Bills and Living Expenses
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  - Household bills
  - Other
- Birthday gifts
- Blind/visually impaired people
- Boarding needs
- Books
- Braille reading machines
- Building restoration
- Business debts
- Car repairs
- Carpets
- Childcare
- Children
- Christmas gifts
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- Clothing
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  - Baby
  - Children’s
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  - Job-related/Work
  - School uniforms
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  - Winter wear
- Clothing and equipment for people starting work
- Coal
- Computer game consoles
- Computers
- Conversions
- Cookers
- Council Tax
- Course fees
- Credit card debt
- Curtains
- Cycle trailers
- Day trips and outings
- Deaf/hard of hearing
- Debt relief
- Direct educational costs
  - Bursaries/scholarships
  - Fees
  - Necessities
  - Special educational needs
- Disabled care – children
- Disabled care – elderly
- Disabled people
- Disabled people
- Duke of Edinburgh Award expenses
- Education
  - Business start-up
  - People starting work or entering a trade
  - Personal development and gap year activities
- Elderly people
- Elderly people
- Electric wheelchairs
- Electrical applicances
- Electricity bills
- Equipment/instruments
- Exam fees
- Expeditions
- Extensions
- Extra-curricular activities
  - Non-educational school trips
  - Non-formal education
- Food bills
- Fridge
- Furniture
- Gambling debts
- Gap year and similar activities
- Gas bills
- Heating bills
- Help at home
- Holidays
- Holidays – convalescent/respite
- Home help fees
- Household essentials
  - Decorating
  - Furnishings
  - Garden alterations
  - General maintenance
  - Heating appliances
  - Repairs
  - Structural changes
- Indirect educational costs
  - Accommodation
  - Childcare
  - Computers
  - Educational outings
  - Living expenses
  - Travel in the UK
- Insurance
- Kitchen
- Legal expenses
- Lifeline rentals
- Loan repayments
- Medical
  - Chiropody
  - Convalescence
  - Counselling
  - Dental treatment
  - Dietary supplements
  - Hospital travel expenses
  - Medical care
  - Medical equipment/aids
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  - Therapy/Rehabilitation
- Mortgage repayments
- Music
- NA
- National Insurance
- Newspapers
- Nusery school fees
- Other school clothing
- Other welfare needs
  - Bereavement and funeral costs
  - Child and Baby expenses
  - Communication aids
  - Embarking on a new beginning
  - Gifts and presents
  - Independent living
  - Miscellaneous
  - Receation and leisure
  - Transport and travel
- Overdraft
- Palliative care
- Personal loans
- Pilgrimages and religious activities
- Playgroup fees
- Private/Non-NHS
- Radios
- Recurrent
- Rehabilitation
- Removal expenses
- Rent
- Residential care fees
- School fees
- School footwear
- School uniforms
- Setting up a new home
- Small debts
- Specially adapted household equipment
- Sports
- Sports equipment
- Stairlifts
- Stationery
- Talking books
- Telephone installation and rental
- Temporary accommodation
- Tools for apprentices
- Toys
- Training materials
- Transport
- Travel
- TV licences
- TV rental
- Utility bills
- Veterinary treatment
- Videos
- Vocational courses
  - Medical electives
  - Work experience
- Voluntary work overseas
- Washing machines
- Water bills
- Weddings
- Wheelchairs
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