WILTSHIRE’s High Sheriff and Lord Lieutenant have urged the people of the county to support Wiltshire Community Foundation’s Surviving Winter campaign. The Surviving Winter campaign, which has been running since 2010, will this year be funding partners Age UK, Warm and Safe Wiltshire and both Swindon and Wiltshire Citizens Advice so they can provide hot meals, energy bill vouchers, boiler repairs and servicing and essential energy-saving and benefits advice. Last year the appeal raised £90,000 and helped 300 people through direct grants, but by working closer with its partners this year, the community foundation hopes to help at least 900. Research by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy last year revealed there are more than 30,000 households in Wiltshire and Swindon - almost one in ten homes - living in fuel poverty, meaning they cannot afford to heat their home properly through the coldest months of the year.