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National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux offers these useful fact sheets, covering issues such as employment, housing and taxation
See where your nearest CAB is. National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux site. Free advice on all subjects. Click on to get advice on several social policy areas.
Local Consumer organisations with contact details and location maps.
Tricia Harragin, Counsellor & Psychotherapist
The Old Convent, Beeches Green, Stroud GL5 4AD, UK – 01453 757848
Very supportive, very caring, very helpful.
Gloucestershire Counselling Service
Alma House, 52-53 High St, Stroud GL5 1AP, UK – 01453 766310
Five Valleys Counselling Practice
8 London Rd, Stroud GL5 2AJ, UK – 01453 297040
The National Careers Service is a Government run service and so totally neutral. It has recently be redesigned and so well worth a look. They cover:
Skills health check - to find out what kind of jobs could suit you.
Find a course - Find a courses and learning providers
Help you to get a job
- CVs
- Skills health check reports
- action plans
- course searches
Skills health check - to find out what kind of jobs could suit you.
Find a course - Find a courses and learning providers
Help you to get a job
- Get advice on the different stages of a job hunt
- How to improve your interview technique
- Write an effective CV.
Click for more careers information. This takes you to our whole careers section where you can actually get a job and put your CV online.
Find your nearest Jobcentre plus loads of other stuff. Boring but it is all there!
Local disability and special needs services with contact details and location maps.
Disabled Person's Tax Credit
Telephone helpline 0845 605 5858
Textphone 0845 608 8844 or click the Disability Rights link below
Telephone helpline 0845 605 5858
Textphone 0845 608 8844 or click the Disability Rights link below
Child Maintenance Service (The Child Support Agency is part of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission. Its role is to make sure that parents who live apart from their children contribute financially to their upkeep by paying child maintenance.
You may not always have family service nearby but these are your nearest sexual health and family planning centres serving Stroud
National Council for One Parent Families in England and Wales
Support for one parent families in Scotland. Runs the National Lone Parent Helpline for advice and help. Freephone 0808 801 0323
Local social services and Welfare Organisations serving the area around Stroud and Gloucestershire
HMRC Website - another 'snappy' government site with everything there if you can keep at it!