Halting the increase. “There but for fortune go you or I”. An old protest song. But even half a heart makes the connection to homelessness in 2016. It’s growing and more people are noticing. Social media are reflecting the anxiety. Housing charities are turning up the volume. Last weekend some of our councillors spent a night […]
Joined up care please! That was the big wish shared by everyone at a Voice Network event hosted by Surrey Community Action (SCA) and Healthwatch Surrey. It won’t surprise policy-makers and managers who want to improve quality and efficiency. But the opinions of people in local services are vital current information. A dozen faith and voluntary groups […]
Unmet demand is increasing community stress. Housing has always been one of the biggest issues for clients at Citizens Advice Reigate & Banstead. In the past year problems brought to us have gone up by more than 15% on 2014. The main cause is that the number of homes available to people on low or middle […]
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Voluntary sector review puts spotlight on impact At Citizens Advice Reigate & Banstead our trained volunteer advisers offer free advice to anyone who needs it. We measure the value in the relief of so many clients who need somewhere to turn. But value is also counted in another currency – social benefit. Whenever Citizens Advice […]
Citizens Advice Reigate & Banstead February 2016. What we’ve been up to. Community liaison Surrey Armed Forces Community Covenant Building awareness Meeting Point Tadworth Justice needs a home Confirmation Redhill and Reigate courts will close Surrey CC budget settlement Our vice-chair of trustees makes a point PIP – new online help Step-by-step guide to making […]
Citizens Advice Reigate & Banstead has hosted colleagues from nine CA offices in Surrey at a meeting on policy research and campaigns. Not everyone knows Citizens Advice does this work as well as providing the best (and best-known) advice service in the country. The purpose is to use our advisers’ wide experience of people’s problems to help councils, businesses and other […]
Top of the agenda at a meeting on 24 February of Redhill Citizens Advice volunteers was how to advise clients on claiming Universal Credit. The new benefit reached Surrey for the first time this month. It replaces six existing working age benefits which will be gradually phased out. To begin with just a small number of […]
Tadworth hears the Citizens Advice message. Meeting Point provides a wide range of highly-valued services in Tadworth. So it was natural to invite our community link person Helen Howe to explain the support we offer to all if problems arise. Attending the meeting on 25 February were representatives of toddlers and carers groups, arts and […]
Citizens Advice at Community Covenant local services briefing Our armed service personnel deserve the support of the whole nation. In Reigate & Banstead we make sure help is there through the Surrey Armed Services Community Covenant. Citizens Advice is signed-up and on Tuesday our senior debt caseworker Mandy Impey was a speaker at a Covenant event organised by R&BBC in the Old […]