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7th September 2013 by manager in Campaigns
Getting the best deal from your energy supplier?
The energy regulator, Ofgem, is bringing in changes to make it easier, clearer and fairer for you to get the best deal when you buy electricity and gas. From 26 August 2013 suppliers must: carry out actions in a fair, honest, transparent, appropriate and professional manner give information which is complete, accurate, not misleading […]
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5th September 2013 by manager in Campaigns
Living in the South East, sheltered from welfare cuts?
Sheffield Hallam University is a well established and widely respected educational institution. It recently published a report entitled ‘Hitting the poorest places hardest”, which was concerned with the impact of the welfare reforms being implemented by the coalition government which will continue until 2017. The Sheffield Hallam study quotes the widely reported figure that the […]
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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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