Caerphilly
Bargoed Citizens Advice
Address: 41b Hanbury Road, Bargoed, CF81 8QU
Tel: 03444 111444
Web: www.citizensadvice.org.uk
Citizen Advice bureaus provide free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities. They provide the advice people need for the problems they face from helping with debts to employment rights. Bargoed Citizen Advice office is at 41b Hanbury Road, Bargoed, CF81 8QU. They also have a drop-in service every Monday between 9am and 11:30am at the Cefn Forrest Community Centre, Derwendeg Avenue, Cefn Forrest, Blackwood, NP12 3LW with no appointment needed. The phone number may be expensive from a mobile so might be best to drop in.
Caerphilly Family Information Service
Tel: 01443 863232
Email: fis@caerphilly.gov.uk
Web: www.caerphilly.gov.uk/fis
The Family Information Service provides free and impartial advice to parents and families about what’s available in the Caerphilly area. You can find information on childcare, education, parenting, behaviour management, events and activities and much more.
Action for Children – Caerphilly Children’s Centre
Tel: 02920 867447
Web: www.actionforchildren.org.uk
Action for Children are a children’s charity who work directly with 300,000 children, young people, and parents and carers. They run 650 services across the UK and tackle issues such as child neglect and abuse. These services are provided to children in care, disabled children and young people as well as adoption and fostering services, family support services, and specialist schools.
Llamau – Caerphilly Women’s Services
Address: Lion House, 2 Northview Terrace, Caerphilly, CF83 1PE
Tel: 02920 860255
Web: www.llamau.org.uk
Llamau is the leading Homelessness Charity for the most vulnerable Young People and Women in Wales. The word Llamau means steps, progression or threshold in old Welsh, and our ultimate aim is to support the people who use our services in making these positive steps.
Caerphilly Mind
Tel: 01443 816945
Web: www.mind.org.uk
Caerphilly Mind provide a range of services across Caerphilly to improve people’s mental health. Caerphilly Mind offer drop in services, services specific to women or men, tenancy support, support for black minority ethnic groups, and for young people. They offer confidential and non-judgemental support to help people through difficult times.
Caerphilly Women’s Aid
Address: Lion House, 2, North View Terrace, Caerphilly CF83 1PE
Tel: 029 2086 0255
Web: www.womensaid.org.uk
We provide a gender specific range of housing related support projects for women aged 16 and over. The different kinds of disadvantage and discrimination facing women are closely inter-related, so within our safe, supportive, women only environment, women can express themselves freely and confidently, and feel comfortable speaking about their needs and experiences. This is especially important for those women who have been abused, as they need somewhere to be safe from the fear of sexual, physical or verbal harassment.
A high percentage of women accessing our services are from abusive/violent backgrounds with co-existing complex support needs. Between April 2008 and March 2009, 75% of women housed and supported by Women’s Services had abusive/violent histories.
Barnado’s (Risca)
Tel: 01633 615859
Web: www.barnados.org.uk
Barnardo’s in Risca offer a range of services aimed at supporting families and children. They may be able to help if you need support in any area of your life.. for example, this could be help with parenting, tackling finances and debt, problems with your tenancy or moving home. If there is something in your life you are finding difficult to face, or is stressing you out, get some help – there are always solutions to problems, sometimes you just need help to find them.
Homeswapper
HomeSwapper is a direct home swap service for social housing tenants who want a house swap, flat swap or to exchange their council house. If you live in a council house or housing association property you can do a house exchange and swap your home with HomeSwapper, the national home swap service.
There are also some home swap sites on Facebook. Try searching for this for example….House Swap Wales.
Charter Housing Community Regeneration Team
Tel: 01633 678514
In Charter’s Community Regeneration team we have specialist community project staff who run a wide variety of initiatives with tenants and their communities. These are aimed at developing skills, providing employment opportunities, working with young people and tackling money problems. We work with individuals and groups of all kinds to raise funding and develop activities that help them achieve their potential.
Opportunities and projects we run change regularly so contact the community regeneration team on 01633 678514 to find out about any of the programmes below or to see what else you can get involved in, check out the Charter Website, or download the Charter app.
As well as Growing Together current projects running within Charter are:
Moneysavers: The Money Savers team, Kath Hopkins and Kelly Osadare help tenants make the most of their money. They can offer advice on: Benefits, Energy Advice, Budgeting, Grants, Debts/Arrears, and Welfare Reform. The Moneysavers are trained, independent and regulated by the Institute of Money Advisors. Since the Money Savers project launched in July 2009, it has saved tenants thousands of pounds.
Youth Team: We think it’s really important to help young people have a better future. That’s why we employ experienced youth development workers who have a range of skills and specialist knowledge. Our youth team is designed to engage and inspire young people to make positive changes in their lives, to achieve their maximum potential. Charters Youth Team can offer one to one Support for up to 8 weeks for Charter young people aged 11-25. This is aimed at building confidence to enable them to feel comfortable enough to access other programmes. There are lots of short and long term programmes run by the Youth Team including ‘Radiate’ and ‘Go Girls’.
Working for Me: David Gape is helping our tenants to reach their goals by supporting them to start businesses, attend training, find employment and work placements. We have helped tenants set up businesses in: Mobility, Catering, Child-minding, Hairdressing, Holistic therapy, Beauty therapy, Window-cleaning, Decorating and Construction
Digital Inclusion: Our Digital Communities Officers Steve Dixon or Roger Covello can get you started with IT and the internet. From informal workshops to individual sessions, they can support your learning. They have has lots of experience in working with complete beginners and can give individual workshops or a group lesson.
The Charter Housing App
The Charter Housing app is available for iPhone and Android devices which features lots of great information about who we are and what we do as well as a great tool for reporting repairs and maintenance issues. Search for the Charter Housing app in your favourite app stores or download via the links below:
