Adviser helps client to get £70,832.50 in backdated payments from 2007! One of our Advisers here at Citizens Advice South West Surrey has been supporting a client to get her Attendance Allowance since February this year. Although DWP said the client already received it with her pension payments, through our Adviser’s insistence, they finally agreed[…]
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Citizens Advice South West Surrey helps client to get massive backdated benefits payments
Benefits, Local News Jun 28, 2024
Sponsored 10km walk on Monday 8th July to raise funds for Citizens Advice South West Surrey.
Local News Jun 24, 2024
Our team at Citizens Advice South West Surrey is taking on a sponsored 10km walk on Monday 8th July to raise funds. Your sponsorship us will help us to continue to provide free, confidential, impartial and independent advice and information for the communities we serve. Please sponsor our team for the 2024 Guildford Legal Walk.[…]
Carrie is a student volunteer at Citizens Advice South West Surrey, volunteering on reception and helping with assessing. Click on the image below to watch Carrie’s video and to find out how she is helping our team. Discover more about current volunteering opportunities at Citizens Advice South West[…]
Make a real difference to people’s lives in a short space of time. As a Volunteer with Citizens Advice South West Surrey, you could: Help volunteers with reception tasks such as being the first point of contact for clients Accompany an adviser when they are talking to clients and take notes Type up a summary[…]
You’ll usually need to get a referral to a food bank before you can use it. This includes all food banks run by the Trussell Trust. Find out more about local food banks in the boroughs of Guildford and Waverley. Click on each food bank below for more details: Farnham Food Bank Cranleigh Food Bank[…]
Join us a make a real difference to people’s lives You can volunteer with us in lots of ways – giving advice and information, helping with admin and reception, getting involved in community engagement or fundraising, or being a trustee. To find out more, contact recruitment@casws.org.uk to volunteer in Guildford, Ash or from home; or[…]
Following the merger of two successful local Citizen Advice offices, we are seeking to recruit a number of Trustees to join our Trustee Board. These include a Vice-Chair, Treasurer to the Trustee Board and other Trustees. Our Board meets six times a year, plus other meetings as required. Discover more about the roles here. Or[…]
As part of our engagement with other local charities, Our Advice Services Manager, Anna, attended an event run by Fedcap last week Fedcap is a not-for-profit organisation with clear direction, a commitment to excellence and an innovative approach to improving economic and social wellbeing. “We believe that by helping people to improve their mental and[…]
Wow! A huge thank you to our volunteers and staff who participated in the Guildford Legal Walk in June this year. Together with your support they raised a significant sum for Citizens Advice South West Surrey.
Here are some photos of our team here at Citizens Advice South West Surrey at a recent community event. You can see our team chatting to people, our partners such as Guildford Borough Council and Home Start, local councillors and the Mayor of Guildford Councillor Masuk Miah, about our services and how we can work[…]
GRASS ROOTS Marketplace on 27 July in Guildford is a gathering for local workers, community members & partners supporting communities across Guildford Borough. Citizens Advice South West Surrey CONTACT DETAILS Call Adviceline (free) to speak to an Adviser: Waverley 0808 278 7980 Guildford and Ash 0808 278 7888 Leave online message Office opening[…]
Sponsored 10km walk on Monday 26th June to raise funds for Citizens Advice South West Surrey
Local News Jun 14, 2023
Our team at Citizens Advice South West Surrey is taking on a sponsored 10km walk on Monday 26th June to raise funds. Your sponsorship us will help us to continue to provide free, confidential, impartial and independent advice and information for the communities we serve. Our growing team for the 2023 Guildford Legal Walk is:[…]
Introducing Citizens Advice South West Surrey and South West Surrey Domestic Abuse Service
Local News Jun 01, 2023
Citizens Advice Waverley and Citizens Advice Guildford & Ash are pleased to announce that they have merged and become Citizens Advice South West Surrey. At the same time, Citizens Advice Waverley’s South West Surrey Domestic Abuse Service has become an independent charity. Both new organisations will continue to work in close co-operation, ensuring that referrals[…]
Local Citizens Advice organisations are individual charities which employ some paid staff and many volunteers. Between 2021 and 2022, Citizens Advice volunteers helped a total of 2.55 million people in England and Wales with one-to-one advice on issues ranging from debt and benefits through work, housing, family issues, law and courts, family matters, immigration health[…]
