Surviving Winter 2016/17 (360G-SomersetCF-A431169)
Funding Organization
£8,625
Recipient Organization
Small grants to help older people stay warm in winter.
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Grant Details
| Amount Applied For | 10450 |
| Amount Awarded | 8625 |
| Award Date | 2016-12-12T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Beneficiary Location: Country Code | GB |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code | E01029234 |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code Type | LSOA |
| Beneficiary Location: Name | South Somerset 015B |
| Grant Programme: Code | Surviving Winter 16/17 |
| Grant Programme: Title | Grants to Groups |
| Impact Category | Advance people's physical and mental health, wellbeing and safety |
| Last Modified | 2017-10-20T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Planned Dates: Duration (months) | 8 |
| Planned Dates: End Date | 2017-08-31T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Planned Dates: Start Date | 2016-12-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Primary beneficiary | Older People |
| Recipient Org: Charity Number | 1054134 |
| Recipient Org: Company Number | 03173414 |
| Recipient Org: Description | Citizens Advice South Somerset provides free, independent and confidential information and advice for anyone who needs it. Our vision and mission are as follows: Vision Seeking and using advice becomes an established and valued part of everyday life for the citizens of our community. Mission We will provide a high quality, seamless and responsive advice service that meets our clients’ needs enabling them to overcome their problems and improve their life chances. Our services benefit the whole community and reduce poverty, disadvantage and discrimination by helping people to improve their life chances through resolving their problems. We provide information, and advice on any issue a client presents including; debt, benefits, employment, housing, relationship matters, discrimination, and many more issues. For clients with multiple or complex problems we offer intensive casework support. Our services are delivered with flexibility to make them available to everyone. Our general service offers open access to information, advice and casework by phone, email or through face to face services at one of our drop-in sessions. We provide drop-in sessions Monday – Friday at a variety of locations in the South Somerset Area. We also offer telephone and email advice services to reach out to those clients unable to travel to our centres. In addition to the general service we develop and deliver specialist projects and programmes including: • Welfare Benefits Advice and Casework including for people affected by cancer and other life limiting health conditions • Debt advice and casework for people in financial difficulties • Financial capability and personal budgeting support • Community learning programmes such as financial education • Energy and household related information and advice to assist householders to maintain a warm and affordable home environment and manage their bills • Local Assistance administering crisis grants and food parcels for people facing serious emergencies and crisis • Partnerships and collaborative projects that benefit the community • Training and support to local community groups enabling them to provide information assistance within their community of interest • Research and campaigning to raise awareness and influence change in respect of policies that have a detrimental impact on people’s lives • Volunteering opportunities in advice giving, campaigning and administration. We are a volunteer involving organisation with a diverse team of active volunteers. We provide regular training programmes that enable local people to develop their knowledge and skills and to join our team delivering information and advice to their local community. We work in close collaboration with the other Somerset advice agencies to research and identify advice or development needs for the communities of Somerset. We work together to promote access to information and advice and to research and campaign on matters in order to improve services for local people. We participate in joint strategic and developmental programmes including the formation and implementation of the Somerset Advice Network and Somerset Advice Strategy 2015-2018. |
| Recipient Org: Web Address | http://www.southsomcab.org.uk |