Alesa phoned the Home Visiting team on the recommendation of another support agency whose remit was too limited to give the holistic help she needed. She and her husband were looking for both welfare benefit and debt advice. The adviser completed a full benefits check followed by a successful Attendance Allowance claim at the higher […]
Charles was referred to the Home Visiting team by his GP surgery. Although able to cope with the day to day physical tasks of being the main carer for his daughter and granddaughter, he felt troubled by the burdensome paperwork that accompanied the role as he was the personal representative for both. The adviser helped
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Dora qualified for her state pension and was looking forward to her retirement. She had been in low paid employment but had managed to save a small amount and secure a modest private pension. Unfortunately, ill health struck leaving her reliant on paid carers as she lived alone and had no close relatives. Home visits
Team HardBrigShips is swimming in the Rotary 2020 Swimmathon in support of BACAB BACAB works to maintain the vital home-visiting service to residents in the countryside around here. We take the CAB services to people who, for whatever reason, need help, usually with debt and benefits. Sadly, there are many who live at the end
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BACAB has been one of the Mayor of Buckingham’s chosen charities for the past 2 years. As one of his final acts in office, in May 2019, he gave each of us a cheque for nearly £1,300. A marvellous result. We will use this for the local Citizens Advice Home Visiting Service, so vital in
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A lovely concert with stunning singing was given in aid of BACAB in July. They sang their hearts out and all in aid of our CAB. We spoke about the work that the Home visiting team do and everyone was very supportive. So much so that we received a cheque a few weeks later for
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My name is April and the CAB Home Visiting team really helped me – here’s my story. Where would I be without them? I’ve been living on disability benefit since 2002 and it’s a struggle for me to leave the house. I’ve been ill with various ailments for several years now.I just want to take
We are delighted to announce that the Mayor of Buckingham, Jon Harvey has named BACAB as one his named charities of the year, so we took a few moments to ask Jon about why he chose BACAB: In terms of why I chose BACAB – it’s because the theme for my second year as Mayor
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The annual Town versus Gown Quiz takes place at the Royal Latin School on 16 November 2018. The winning team will be awarded The Bercow Bowl and each team member will be presented with an engraved glass tankard. As usual the Quizmaster will be John Bercow, who brings much humour and levity to the event.
Almost every client that comes to BACAB or Citizens Advice as a whole has a problem with debts owes money on their council tax. Nationally, Citizens Advice advised 93,000 people with council tax debts in 2017/18. This is clearly a big problem for our clients, but it’s also a huge problem for councils , who
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