Grant application success. A team led by Citizens Advice Reigate & Banstead has been awarded funding to develop new ways of helping people faced with the sudden death of a close friend or family member. Citizens Advice colleagues across the county with support from Surrey County Council Public Health will work on a blueprint that […]
Helping us understand. What’s it like to live with dementia? Our Redhill volunteers heard today from a fellow volunteer, Debbie Self at Dementia Friends. We couldn’t have been in better hands. The main aim of Dementia Friends is that people learn a little more and find active ways to help however small. And Debbie’s session at our summer meeting was light-hearted and very informative. 850,000 people* in […]
Common problems. The health of people in 21st Century Britain is being affected by malnutrition, food poverty or poor housing. This week a survey of nurses* again underlined the depressingly common link between family economics and health. 40 per cent of nurses have patients whose circumstances are harming their health. 50% say the proportion of patients with preventable […]
DO YOU NEED SOMEONE TO MANAGE YOUR AFFAIRS? OR MAY YOU NEED TO DO THIS FOR SOMEONE ELSE? IT’S IMPORTANT TO MAKE ARRANGEMENTS IN ADVANCE Citizens Advice have been lobbying for simplification of forms and a reduction of fees Reasons for managing someone else’s affairs may be that: They are ill or disabled They are […]