Welcome to Citizens Advice Broxtowe
Last year Citizens Advice Broxtowe supported over 5,500 people with the problems they faced. Below is a summary of our outputs. We help people with any problem they may face or direct them to other partners for the appropriate support that matches their needs. The most common problems people faced during the pandemic were welfare …
Measuring Our Social Value – Our Impact Report 2020/21 Read More »
National Consumer Week National Consumers Week begins on 6th December. Citizens Advice have a number of resources to help you with your consumer problems. More details are on the national website. This year we’ll be raising awareness of how people can protect themselves from misleading energy efficiency and environmental claims, such as “green scams” and …
Annual General Meeting Our AGM was held on 12th October 2021 at which we celebrated the achievements during the reporting year 2020/21, another year dominated by the pandemic. The guest speaker was the Mayor of Broxtowe Cllr Richard MacCrae who thanked our volunteers and staff for their hard work helping the residents of Broxtowe. Richard …
Our report on the Universal Credit Uplift Last month we reported on the end of the Universal Credit uplift and Furlough scheme. Our campaign, Don’t Wait Until October’ encouraged people, likely to be impacted by the lifting of COVID-19 support, to seek advice with debts, budgeting and income maximisation. We also carried out a survey …
Broxtowe Voluntary and Community Sector Survey The Broxtowe Community and Voluntary Sector (CVS) Task and Finish Group, have been tasked to write a CVS strategy for Broxtowe. To help shape and inform the strategy, they welcome your input from community and voluntary organisations by participating in a short survey. The survey will be open until …
At the end of September the Government is removing some of the financial support currently in place to help people and businesses through the economic crisis caused by COVID-19. These include the £20 uplift on Universal Credit and the end of the Furlough Scheme. Whilst Citizens Advice have been campaigning to #KeeptheUplift it is important …
The Universal Credit COVID uplift is due to end in September Read More »
Turn your unwanted stuff into donations for the Citizens Advice Mid-Nottinghamshire campaign to resource our Community COVID Recovery Plans. Virgin Media Giving have teamed up with Ziffit, the online up-cycling tool to help charity supporters turn unwanted goods into donations. It’s a free web and app service, that instantly values books, games, DVDs and CDs …
De-clutter and Support our Community COVID Recovery Plan Read More »
The Money Sorted programme will be coming to Broxtowe during August. The Money Sorted project is here to support anyone who wants to increase theirconfidence and skills with money management.They can offer free, confidential support on money issues such as; Benefit entitlement – How to save money Prioritising bills – Budgeting Switching suppliers – Dealing …
The latest publication of Broxtowe Matters can be downloaded below. Full of interesting and useful articles relevant to the residents of Broxtowe.
