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Throughout February Citizens Advice are
trying to find out how people access cash from bank,
building society and post office card accounts, and how they
would be affected if their bank stopped them from using
other cash machines.
We’ve produced a short client survey to
help us gather information about this. It should not take
long to complete and what we learn from it will help us work
to ensure vulnerable consumers have easy access to their
cash.
The survey is anonymous. But if you want
to tell us more about how you access cash, the accounts you
use or the problems you have had had you can. All you need
to do is tick a box and tell us how we can contact you.
The survey will only take a couple of
minutes to complete:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/D5QPJNW
About the Service
Cheshire East Citizens Advice Bureau is a
member of Citizens
Advice
 ,
which provides the extensive information system we use to
advise clients and sets standards for advice, training,
equal opportunities and accessibility in the bureau.
The Citizens Advice
service offers practical, up-to-date information and advice
on a wide range of topics, including; debt, benefits, housing,
legal, discrimination, employment, immigration, consumer
and other problems.
Our advice is available to everyone regardless of race,
gender, sexuality, age, nationality, disability or religion.
As well as general advice,
we offer specialist advice, including representation, on
debt, and
benefits.
We have a
Mental Health Advocacy Service
for people who need an independent advocate to help them
express their needs to a wide range of professionals, an
adviser
specially funded to help Wulvern Housing Tenants and a
Welfare Benefits Take Up worker for people over 60.
The
Rural Advice Service
, which received funding from the
Big Lottery Fund in 2006, is an extremely well-established
and well respected service. The service has been operating
for around 20 years and visits a number of villages around
Crewe and Nantwich. "The Van" as it is commonly known
is a specially adapted vehicle which serves as a mobile
office complete with interview room. We know from
rural client feedback that there is no other service which
provides an holistic problem solving service and many say
that they would not have pursued their rights, including
claiming welfare benefits, without the vans help.
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Campaigning for change - Social Policy
We also speak up for change in
social policies; from our clients' experiences we can see
where services and policies are failing. We call this
work "Campaigning for Change".
Volunteering
Cheshire East CAB is a volunteer led organization – all of our
generalist advisers are volunteers, they are the backbone of our
organization.
People from all backgrounds and ages come and join the CAB to help
their local community.
They come here for many different reasons, but each and every one of
them will tell you that they find it stimulating, fascinating and
very enjoyable.
Volunteering with the CAB is not a lifetime commitment, though you
may find that volunteering with the CAB changes your life in
unexpected ways. Many
of the paid staff here began their life as a volunteer, and some of
our current volunteers are using the experience they gain here as a
stepping stone to enhance their career.
Volunteers at CAB give their time freely to act as advisers,
administration assistants, board members, marketing assistants, IT
support assistants or as receptionists.
No previous experience is needed as all training is provided by
members of our training team.
Travel expenses are paid to ensure that no one is out
of pocket by volunteering.
Contact us now – you won’t regret it!
Click here to
find out more
Donations
Cheshire East CAB is a registered charity
delivering free and impartial advice to
thousands of clients per year.
You can help us to help others by making a donation in any
of the following ways.
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