Bute Advice Centre SCIO  SC051240

Service Provision 

Bute Advice Centre

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Bute Advice Centre are offering telephone, office and home visits and can be contacted on the usual number 01700 502784 for a comprehensive welfare rights and money advice telephone service across Argyll and Bute.  In addition to our core advice service provision, we continue to deliver all welfare rights services to ACHA tenants across Bute & Cowal.

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Our Mission

Bute Advice Centre is established for the purpose of benefiting communities in Argyll & Bute within certain projects, by the advancement of education (including debt management, welfare rights, consumer rights, housing and energy issues),the protection of health, both mental and physical and the relief of poverty, sickness and distress.

 

Our Aim

To fight poverty and social exclusion by the provision of impartial, confidential advice and assistance with regard to:

 

   •  Housing Advice

   •  Homelessness, eviction, housing grants, arrears and                   Tenancy issues

   •  Welfare Benefits Advice

   •  Benefits checks, form filling and representation at Tribunal        Appeals

   •  Utilities Advice

   •  Debt Management, liaising with utility providers, changing          suppliers, accessing grants and alleviation of fuel                        poverty advice

   •  Debt Management Provision (advice regarding voluntary            payment arrangements, protected trust deeds,                            bankruptcy, DAS and court  representation)

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