If you needed extra money

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....an extra £100 per week

You both work full time

Can't cut anything back at all (fine tooth comb through the budget has already been done)

Not eligible for any benefits even with low wages and high childcare costs.

What would you do? I've had 2nd jobs before, but now we have 2 kids under 6 and not much support.

A friend of mine works full time during the week and does deliveries for a Chinese on the weekend that brings in roughly £80 a night plus petrol money

What do you actually need the money for?

Any way you can change your hours to reduce the Childcare costs?

Aw amazing, thank you!

I’d apply for a new job- but appreciate in the private sector.
if no possibility of that I’d have to look at outgoings

If either of you have educational qualifications, try tutoring?
Could do £20-40/ hour depending on subject & level, so wouldn't need to work too many extra hours to do it?
Can be online or in person? + most want evenings or weekends

Is this going to be every month for the foreseeable? Honestly I'd consider moving somewhere cheaper if at all possible. And look for a different job. You both work full time with small kids, it would be unsustainable to keep up a side hustle for ever. Instead of tinkering I'd look for a big wholesale change. It may not be an option for you but id definitely explore it as the current set up isn't working for your family.

basically an extra job - work overtime shifts at weekend if possible and if partner is home, one person delivers food/uber late nights/weekends, possibly babysit/childcare for friends/family at weekend or evenings, sell stuff, do cleaning/ironing on side (unsure of what this earns)

Or alter shifts/condensed hours some days to cut childcare on others, car share to cut fuel costs if commute involves a car, rent out driveway if you live near a paid parking work centre, lodger, dog walking/pet sitting, grass cut/garden for neighbours, taxi, or night carer a few times a week (I see this advertised privately on local pages sometimes)

Have you had a look at Vinted? I found that the selling categories have expanded quite a bit. Today I sold golf balls, tennis balls, a camera bag and a super soaker water pistol. Unless you live in a shop, I don't think you would make £100 extra per week but it could help in conjunction with other methods.

Is childcare the issue? Can you downsize your home, downgrade your car?

I meant to ask can you do this through the you gov app or only on the website?

I don't know @littleteapot86 as I don't have the app.
I do everything on the website.

Always wondered how does a delivery driver make that much money?
The delivery charge by restaurants isn't that much?

Easiest way to get more money is to ask for a pay rise.

When was the last time you had a pay increase?

Can you and your partner compress your hours so you each work longer for four days but have an extra week day off? That could save you two days of childcare.

Otherwise go down to one car? No cars?

Bar job or hospitality. You can each do shifts alternate evenings, while the other looks after the kids, hard but good temporary work

Online tutoring. Money for old rope if you have an A Level in a subject.

Can you condense any working days, so five into four longer days to save on childcare?

£50 every 6-8 weeks staggered me, I also get £50 about every 2 years - in fact having read this I've looked on the app for the things the poster mentioned (and can't find anything, and if I try to log in on the website it takes me to the app) but did find a statistics page which pretty much confirms that it's been approx every 2 years (just under 45,000 points in just under 19 years).
My stats for March show me earning more than average and in the top 7% - just about that it shows I earned 395 points, which would take me a year to get to 5,000 for £50.

I shall look on the computer!

Sell things
Cut back on pension payments
Move to interest only mortgage
Extend the length of the mortgage
Rent out a room or a parking space

I have a garden so I pot up self seeded plants and bring them on, until they are large enough to sell at table top sales. I home-make jams from free fruit & sell that too. It would be hard work to make £100 a month, but most of the work could be done from home. And it would be cash in hand.

As a student I worked as a barmaid - all hours. That's the easiest and most immediate money.

As for a pay raise work on getting a new job that pays more

Here's a screenshot for anyone interested of just some of the things you can do.

And here are my finance points from the last time I shared.
It's 1700 points and I can share again in 2 weeks and get them all again.
you need to click on the white square to see them all.

@PiggyPokkyFool even doing that, are you actually sure it's £50 every 6 or so weeks?!

I don't think that's correct. It's deliberately set so they don't pay out very much very often!

yeah I'm in the top 1% of yougov members & even I only get about £100 a Year from it. Think the person is slightly exaggerating. Plus not mentioning that using their referral links gives them money. Yougov for example for all that click soon as you do 6 surveys they'll get £2 for nothing