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Updated: 11/09/2025
Gold Card
Gold Card is Derbyshire County Council's travel, discount and library card for older people and people with certain disabilities.
Free bus travel
- Gold Card currently allows you to travel free, on local buses, throughout Derbyshire, from 9.30am up to 11pm weekdays, and at any time during weekends and on bank holidays.
- Gold Card also allows you to travel free, off-peak on local buses throughout the whole of England, from 9:30am to 11pm weekdays and at any time during weekends and bank holidays.
- Gold Card holders can also travel free-of-charge anytime on Derbyshire Connect Dial-a-Bus 'shopping' buses.
Discounts
- Your Gold Card gives you discounts at more than 700 businesses in and around Derbyshire, including shops, restaurants hotels and services.
- Most of the discounts in the directory are exclusive to Gold Card and available to all cardholders. Typically businesses offer a discount of 10%.
- You can search through hundreds of discounts available to the over 60s and disabled people throughout Derbyshire in the Gold Card discount directory.
Find out more about Gold Card on the Derbyshire County Council website
Help with Transport Costs
50% off travel if you’re on Universal Credit
You may be eligible for a Jobcentre Plus Travel Discount Card if you’re on Universal Credit. Find out more information on the National Rail website
Bus Passes
- In England you can get a bus pass for free travel when you reach the State Pension age. Apply for an older person’s bus pass
- If you’re disabled then you may be eligible for a disabled person’s pass if you live in England. Apply for a disabled person’s bus pass
Free Legal Advice
The Student Legal Advice Centre at Derby Law School offers pro bono advice and assistance in a range of areas of law:
- Family Law Clinic
- Support at Court in Family matters (Derby Courts)
- Reach Out Clinic – family law advice for people in prison
- Immigration Family Reunion Clinic
- Legal Triage Clinic (University of Derby students only)
- Policy Clinic
- International Human Rights Clinic
- Business Clinic (for small businesses and entrepreneurs)
For more information visit www.derby.ac.uk/departments/derby-law-school/law-clinic/
Low-Cost and Free Paint
The Derby Community RePaint scheme, which is managed by the Play and Recycling Centre (PARC), was created to help community groups, schools and people who are on low incomes, or in receipt of benefits, by providing affordable and usable leftover paint from commercial and trade sources.
Every litre of paint you obtain from this scheme would otherwise go to landfill, so whatever colour you choose it's green!
For more information about the scheme and to register, visit the PARC website
CoL Support Resources - Leaflet, Posters, Translations & Toolkit
Help spread the word, to ensure that Derby residents are getting all the help that they are entitled to!
We have put together a selection of materials including a leaflet and a series of posters covering the key messages surrounding the Cost of Living support for Derby residents, including an A3 poster translated into 10 languages. You can download them here.
We can supply a small amount of printed materials per organisation if required. If you would like to receive some then please email which materials you require and a brief outline of where you plan to use them to communicationsandmarketing@derby.gov.uk
We have also produced a Communications Toolkit, which contains a library of marketing resources that community organisations and partners can use to help spread the word of the help and information available to Derby residents. You can download that below:
Cost of Living Communications Toolkit
Age UK: Claiming the right benefits for you
Age UK have put together a guide that explains what different benefits are available and how to claim what you are entitled to. An online version of the brochure is linked below: