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Citizens Advice Bureaux Rural Benefit Take Up Project

Description of Project - To increase access to advice and information for people in rural Hertfordshire. The aim is to increase income levels through Benefit take-up campaigns by providing an outreach service in villages and rural communities.

Evidence of Need for this Project Activity - Consultation undertaken by Dacorum and North Herts Citizens Advice Bureau showed clients on low income did not contact bureaux by phone for advice and preferred face to face advice. Work carried out at GP surgeries in rural areas demonstrated high level of access need for clients with long term health problems, low income or poor transport.

Key activities for 2006/07

To set up and provide outreach surgeries in rural Hertfordshire.

Link to Hertfordshire Local Area Agreement Blocks

Safer and Strnger Communities

To help build stronger communities by removing barriers to access for advice and information and help to empower people by informing them of their rights and responsibilities. To increase clients income reducing levels of stress in families and individuals improving their health and well being giving them a better quality of life. More income by providing a service in benefit take up campaign helps individuals and families which helps the economy of local businesses and by empowering people and removing social exclusion enables people to take part in their community.


Contact Details for Project Manager

Sally Salisbury
Bureau Manager
Old Grammar School
Broadway
Letchworth Garden City
Herts SG6 3TD

T: 01462 677920
F:
E: district.manager@nhdistrictcab.cabnet.org.uk