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2nd September 2013 by manager in Local News
Fundraising Results – Anyone for a Pimms?
We held a joint Pimms tent with Age UK Waverley at Wings and Wheels on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th August. Despite the bad weather our team of volunteers headed up by John Moxon and Doug Smit managed to raise £300 to be split between our respective charities. An additional £350.70 was raised through Wings […]
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26th August 2013 by manager in Campaigns
Starting University? Renting for the first time?
George Bernard Shaw said that youth is wasted on the young. Being young can bring its own challenges however. You may have just received your A-level results and are planning to start university this autumn. If so you might be faced with the issue of where to live. If you’re going to be moving […]
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22nd August 2013 by manager in Campaigns
Always wanted to work for your local CAB?
Ghandi understood the value of volunteering “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others”. Whether you’re at school or retired, working or job hunting, there’s a rewarding role for you with Citizens Advice Waverley. Here are ten great reasons to volunteer: Make a difference. It can be incredibly […]
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15th August 2013 by manager in Campaigns
Payday loans – know your rights
Anything which can go wrong will go wrong – and at the worst possible time! (Murphy’s Law). Cars, washing machines, central heating… you name it. Breaking down just when you need them most and costing an arm and a leg to fix or replace. But how are you going to pay for it? That’s when […]
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5th August 2013 by manager in Campaigns
Personal Independence Payments (PIP)
ARE YOU OF WORKING AGE AND IN NEED OF HELP WITH DAILY LIVING OR MOBILITY? YOU MAY BE ELIGIBLE FOR PERSONAL INDEPENDENCE PAYMENT (PIP) PIP is a new benefit for people who need help participating in everyday life or who find it difficult to get around. It replaces Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for people of […]
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1st August 2013 by manager in Campaigns
Are you getting nuisance phone calls?
At the time Maureen Lipman appeared in TV adverts in the late 1980s encouraging us to use the telephone to stay in touch a ringing telephone often created a sense of excitement as to who the caller might be As Virginia Woolf had observed much earlier The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations […]
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27th July 2013 by manager in Campaigns
Claiming without confidence – many Waverley residents are not ready for Universal Credit
The single biggest change in the coalition government’s welfare reform programme is the introduction of Universal Credit. The new system will involve a number of changes for claimants – including the provision that making and managing benefit claims will be done online. While this clearly has the potential to simplify the administration of the benefits […]
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27th July 2013 by manager in Campaigns
Campaigning locally and nationally to change policies and practices
Stating the obvious. Most of the people who volunteer for Citizens Advice do so because they want to help people – by giving advice (the name is a bit of a giveaway). I joined Citizens Advice to work on Social Policy. This is the bit of Citizens Advice which is not as well known by […]
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26th July 2013 by manager in Campaigns
Travelling abroad? Want to avoid high mobile charges?
Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going. (Paul Theroux). As the holiday season reaches its peak, many people, be they tourists or travellers will be going abroad for their annual vacation. While technology in general and the Internet in particular have made the world smaller, accessing the Internet via mobile […]
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23rd July 2013 by manager in Campaigns
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth? Avoid buying a pig in a poke.
In days gone by, if you were buying something good practice was based on expressions like not looking a gift horse in the mouth or taking care to avoid buying a pig in a poke. Presumably dissatisfaction with goods or services provided has been around since stone age cave dwellers traded flint and obsidian (cooled […]
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