Annual Report 2017-18 - Citizens Advice

Grants continued b Grants from other public bodies Funder 2014 2013 Purpose £’000 £’000 Devon County Council 458 357 Regional welfare benefit rights Equality and Human Rights

 Canterbury City Council for our Core funding, Prevention of Homelessness funds and their parking credit for our volunteers  Macmillan Cancer Support for funding Welfare Benefits

This project started on the 1st October 2016 and its objectives are to support clients with: • Complex Benefit Issues • Welfare Benefit Appeals • Specialist Debt Advice • Homeless

Those making a financial contribution to Citizens Advice can be confident that, due to staffing in the main by volunteers, every pound invested is repaid many times over • in financial gain

Cheadle Citizens Advice received funding and other support in 2016/17 from: - Staffordshire Moorlands District Council - Cheadle Town Council - Staffordshire County Council - The

Advice for People with Mental Health Issues We are funded, by BMDC, through a subcontract, with Equality Together, to provide Advice Services, at Airedale Mental Health Unit, in

We work closely with a range of statutory and community organisations including Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council, Department of Work and Pensions, Rugby Portobello Trust,

Our Clients Financial gains & satisfaction In 2014/15, we recorded the following average financial value gain per client with debt issues: £5,472 Ongoing benefit gain £3,615