About the Primary Partners

 

The Cheshire Advice Partnership has three primary partners who worked together to secure the BIG Lottery funding bid. They are:

 

Citizens Advice Bureaux

(Cheshire West, Cheshire East and Cheshire East CAB North)

The charity helps people resolve their problems by providing free, independent, confidential, impartial advice and practical assistance. Its work aims to improve the policies and practices that affect people’s lives in Cheshire. The services are available to anyone and are always free. CAB offers advice on the phone, face to face and on-line via adviceguide.org.uk to thousands of people each year.  The bureaux offer:

General legal advice                           Welfare benefits advice

Debt advice                                         Employment rights advice

Discrimination advice                          Mental health advocacy

Community care                                 Mental health support services

Financial capability                             Help for service people

Rural advice service                           tenants supportive services

 

Shelter

Shelter is a charity that works to alleviate the distress caused by bad housing and homelsesness. It does this by giving advice, information and advocacy to people in housing need, and by campaigning for lasting political change to end the housing crisis for good. Shelter can give confidential help to people with all kinds of housing problems. It tackles the root causes of bad housing by lobbying government and local authorities for new laws and policies, and more investment, to improve the lives of badly housed and homeless people.

 

Age Concern (East Cheshire and Cheshire)

Age Concern is committed to making later life a fulfilling and enjoyable experience for all older people in Cheshire. It seeks to achieve this by providing a range of care and support services to empower and enable older people to continue to live full and active lives, to participate in community activity and to remain in good mental and physical health for as long as possible. Age Concern represents older people and making their views, wishes and needs known to health and social care, housing, lesiure and educational providers.

·       Providing opportunities to maintain health, independence and lifelong learning

·       Providing services and caring for the needs of vulnerable, frail older people

·       Influencing and campaigning with and on behalf of older people

·       Identifying new and innovative ways of meeting needs

·       Seeking to empower individuals to make informed life choices

·       Representing older people’s interests to other organisations

·       Providing leadership and support and acting as an information exchange

·       Promoting quality services.