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This is a free 40-page PDF booklet for people with mental health problems and those caring for them. It covers how to handle debts when unwell, work with banks, free debt counselling, specific tips for bipolar or depression sufferers, whether to declare a condition and more.

If you qualify for this scheme you can get a discount of £120 from your electricity bill. Click here for further details.

Support and information drop-in for people who have had a stroke and carers. Click this link for further information stroke_hub_poster.pdf

For advice on housing, employment, benefits, debt, family breakdown and consumer issues.Click this link for further details poster_for_new_surgery.doc

Trading Standards are warning consumers to be careful when searching for a loan provider.

People looking for loans have replied to adverts on line. Intially, their application is rejected, but shortly afterwards they receive a call offering them the original loan amount. However, before receiving the money they are told they must pay an upfront fee. This may be followed with a request for a ‘courier charge’ to delivery the money or paperwork to the house. Once the fees are paid the victim does not hear from the company again and the loan is never received. The fraudsters behind these scams are usually found to be located abroad, making it unlikely the victim will recover their money.

This type of advance fee fraud should be reported to Action Fraud. Call Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040 0300 123 2040 or online at http://www.actionfraud.org.uk

Are you a community project or social enterprise wanting help with choosing the best legal structure for your organisation? Perhaps you need help with designing the best Board of Trustees or Directors to successfully lead your group? Then this workshop is just for you.

You may already be a CIC, a Co-op or a charity or even a Company Limited by Guarantee, but is it the best legal form for the way you want to work? Perhaps you’re a community group or you provide community services just planning to set-up. You may feel your Board is not working as well as it could, or that there is a skills gap. As an organisation that cares about people or planet operating in a difficult funding environment, then you want to find the best tools to help you work effectively to deliver your social aims.

This workshop (Governance and legal structures 29 September 2011 – Torquay) will help you choose the best structure and learn how to find the best people to secure your future.

This workshop is FREE to attend if you are a project or organisation located in Plymouth or Torbay. If your project is not formally constituted, you can easily adopt the ‘unincorporated association’ rules temporarily, to be able to attend the workshop. Contact us for more information – hello@riseforsocent.org.uk.

Places are limited, so book early to avoid disappointment, phone 0845 600 9966 or email enquiries@blpeninsula.co.uk

Do you work with Older People?  

Click through here to find a Pension Credit Toolkit.

     

FREE Tax Awareness e-learning for frontline advisors

Various modules are being introduced throughout the year.