IMPORTANCE OF ADVICE WEEK HIGHLIGHTED AT PARLIAMENT

Christine Grahame MSP is supporting the ongoing work of the Citizens Advice service during its annual Advice Week, taking place from 10th – 16th September and will be sponsoring an event at the Scottish Parliament to highlight the service’s important work to MSPs.  Commenting on the matter, Ms Grahame, a former legal adviser to the CAB said: :

"Advice Week is an annual Citizens Advice service-wide event where events and activities are held all around the UK to promote bureaux as vital local charities, to raise much needed funds and to recruit the 5,000 new volunteers we need every year.  The first one opened for business in September 1939 as World War II began, staffed entirely by volunteers and with financial support from local councils and we must remember that CAB's are charities.

"Every Citizens Advice Bureaux is an independent registered charity and without the contribution of over 20,000 trained volunteers and financial support from trusts, lottery funds, companies and individuals, they could not continue to provide their vital service in local communities – helping people to solve problems before they become crises.

"The Citizens Advice service is one of the UK's largest voluntary organisations as well as one of the best known in the UK - 95% of people have heard of the organisation and nearly half have used a CAB at some stage in their life.

"I hope that the advice week will help to raise awareness amongst people in communities across the country of the work that they do and of how they can help them.  For those wishing for more information, they can access the website: www.citizensadvice.org.uk."

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