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Come and see
THE SOUL DESTROYERS
Supported by
ARKANSAW JUKEBOX COLLECTIVE
Stroud Subscription Rooms GL5 1AE
Friday 24th May 8.30 pm
Tickets £10, Concs £8 plus booking fee (£5 of which goes to Stroud Citizens Advice)
Available from the Stroud office, or click here for tickets.
You will be helping our charity enormously.
Please click this link for the Press Release
Announcement
On Tuesday 9th April 2019 our Stroud, Cirencester and Outreaches will be closed for our Long Service Award Event, which will be held in the presence of HRH The Princess Royal. HRH The Princess Royal has been Patron of Citizens Advice since 1990.
Photos of this event will be shown soon.
We are recruiting Trainee Advisers for our next training programme which begins on 8th March 2019. Initially, trainees meet up once a week for a half day training session where we cover interactions with clients including answering a telephone enquiry and interviewing skills. A further half day is spent in one of our two offices - Stroud and Cirencester observing other advisers working with clients.
After the initial ten week's training, trainees will start to work on the telephone for half a day per week whilst spending the other half day attending training sessions run by our specialist advisers covering key topics such as housing and homelessness, debt, benefits and employment. This second part of the training programme takes about ten weeks to complete, trainees then continue learning and development by advising for 8-10 hours per week.
If you would like to find out how you could make a difference and hear from volunteers – visit our Volunteering page.
To find out more, please contact our training officer on 01453 758252 ext. 214
Once again we participated in the Big Energy Saving Network campaign. This is a national campaign to help people cut their energy bills and get all the financial support they are entitled to. The week focused on raising awareness of how to save money on energy costs by switching energy supplier or tariff, accessing discounts or grants, and making homes more energy efficient.
Partnership Events took place at Cirencester District Council, Stroud District Council, Stroud Money Forum and Corn Hall, Cirencester. Goody bags full of useful information were given away during the week at many of our outreach locations.