A challenging year, due partly to uncertainty about premises in Redhill.
What charity means and can achieve for communities.
Sponsored event Sunday 7 May. Our volunteers are taking part in the Banstead Rotary Walk to raise funds for Citizens Advice Banstead*. With our help many people facing debt, housing, relationship and other problems take a first step towards peace of mind. Many more find our online advice an invaluable resource for everyday life. Will you support this free service by donating through our event team? You can join a growing […]
We may surprise you. Many people think Citizens Advice is a public service paid for by the government. In fact we’re independent local charities that depend on grants – usually from councils – for basics such as premises and the salaries of small staff teams. But the grants are discretionary – in other words more like donations than normal public service funding. And with large cuts to their budgets, we know how hard it is […]
Our partnership benefits citizens and tax-payers. Citizens Advice Chief Executive Gillian Guy shows how close cooperation between local councils and CABs strengthens communities and saves public money.
A charity that’s often misunderstood. Many people make the mistake of thinking Citizens Advice is a public service paid for by the government. In fact we are a group of community charities that depend on grants – usually from local councils – to cover basic costs such as premises and the salaries of small staff teams. But the grants are discretionary, in other words more like donations […]
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 […]
Plea to MPs to help prevent higher demand and reduced budgets harming voluntary groups and disadvantaged people. The vice-chair of trustees at Citizens Advice Reigate & Banstead has written to local MPs asking them to do whatever possible to persuade the government to raise the provisional budget settlement allocated to Surrey County Council. Richard Hoffman says unless something […]
The government published its 2015 Comprehensive Spending Review this week. Local government spending across the country will fall by 6.7%* in real terms between now and 2020. The annual amount the government makes available to local councils will be 56% lower by 2020 but councils have new freedoms to raise funds locally. This will mean less money for local […]
Today’s public spending review has been heavily trailed. Unless we’ve been misled more cuts to local council budgets seem certain. Up to now and to their great credit local authorities have continued to support local Citizens Advice. They wisely see it as investing in the community. Freely available advice helps solve problems that in the longer run would lead to big extra costs*. This week Surrey County Council […]