Latest News from Cheetham Hill Advice Centre
Places on Volunteer Advice Training · full training leading to a qualification (no experience needed
Starts Monday 12th January 2009 We are offering places to volunteers who work in an advice work setting in other organisations. You will be expected to attend the course and do at least one session a week volunteering in your organisation If you or your volunteers are interested for more information please phone Margaret on 0161 740 8999 or e-mail margaret@cheethamadvice.org.uk
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The programme includes an accredited course in Advice Work Skills and Welfare Benefits
Deadline for Enquiries Friday 12th Dec 2008
(If places left can be up to 6th January 2009)
Our volunteer programme is now funded by the Government’s flagship GoldStar Project, promoting good practice for volunteers. See
Farhat Khan can stay
Farhat has now been granted refugee status. Thanks to all residents of Cheetham Hill and Manchester who supported her in her campaign for this. Thanks to Farhat for all her work as a volunteer here. She is now able to do paid work again and has started back as our Urdu/Punjabi Advice Worker.
We are a very busy advice centre.
We deal with over 5,000 client contacts a year. We secure more than £600,000 a year for clients through such things as welfare benefit decisions, assisting people to claim benefit, having debts reduced or written off and applying to trusts and charities. We deal with over 500 in depth cases a year. For more information request our annual report.