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Welcome to the Cotgrave Advice Centre website

NOTICE OF RE-OPENING OF FACE TO FACE APPOINTMENTS

We are open on Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 9-12 by appointment only.

Solicitors appointments take place on the first Thursday of the month. To obtain an appointment for advice or for the Solicitor please email:-

cotgraveadvicecentre@gmail.com

CHRISTMAS And NEW YEAR Closure

The Advice Centre will be closed for

two weeks over Christmas and New Year.

The last open session is Thursday 16 December 2021

And the first session in the New Year will be

Tuesday 4 January 2022

COVID-19.

When Attending the Advice Centre please follow all government guidelines and be assured that Advice Centre is also operating with Covid-19 safe procedures.

NOTE. The Advice Centre has been working throughout the Corona virus pandemic.

However, following Government guidelines we were not able to offer our usual face to face facility but were working from home on Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 9 am to 12 noon answering queries via our email:-

cotgraveadvicecentre@gmail.com

and on our mobile telephone line 07904 713006

Our website was also updated and offered answers to many of the questions people have.

Keep Alert

Jacky Shaw, Manager.

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Latest News :-Annual Report 2018-19

Cotgrave Advice Center is delighted to have been chosen as one of two charities to receive the profits from the 2020 event : see COG newsletter

Cotgrave Advice Centre, founded to help local residents during the mining dispute over 30 years ago, has been located in various parts of the village over the years. We now work out of All Saints’ Church, opposite Brumptons butchers.

Your advice centre is, and always has been entirely staffed and managed by volunteers and currently gets a small annual grant from Nottinghamshire County Council which meets the costs of the telephone, internet, postage and office facilities. Our services are offered freely to people that need them and we see about sixty people a month with a wide range of problems. We manage to sort out most of our clients’ problems ourselves but if we can’t, we know where to send people for the help they need or can pass on the work to local experts we have contacts with.

If you ever need help we are here for you. Our best advice is never put off problems (especially debt issues) until tomorrow, we are here and we will help. You will feel better getting the problem sorted.

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We provide advice on:

Benefits

Benefits are changing for most people at the moment. If you are worried regarding claiming Universal Credit, PIP, Attendance Allowance and Pension Credit we can help you. We also have software that enables us to check that you are getting all the benefits you are entitled to and to predict the changes to benefits that would happen if your circumstances were to change; come in and see us, our services are entirely free.

NOTE: NEW benefit claimants in the Nottinghamshire & Leicestershire area must now claim Universal Credit for what was :-

Child Tax Credit
Housing Benefit
Income Support
income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
Working Tax Credit

and this MUST be done online, so you will need to create an account on the Universal Credit system and have an email account of your own already set up. (Look at this Government Link to start you off).

Self service computers are available for use in the Cotgrave Hub Library which is open from 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday and on Saturdays from 9am to 1pm. Also note Rushcliffe Council Staff Advisers are available in the Cotgrave Hub Library Monday to Friday full time.

NOTE: You may be able to claim new style Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) OR new style Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), with or instead of, Universal Credit, depending on your National Insurance record.

If you need help claiming Universal Credit come in and we can assist you.