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Citizens Advice

The Citizens Advice service helps people resolve their legal, money and other problems by providing free, confidential advice, and through its Social Policy work seeks to influence the decisions of government and policymakers at local and national level.

Every Citizens Advice Bureau is a registered charity reliant on trained volunteers and funding from the community to provide these vital services for local people.

Can you help us?

A report last year cited Sevenoaks as one of the happiest places to live because of its strong volunteer base. At Sevenoaks CAB we are fortunate to have a team of 60 volunteers in a variety of roles but we still need more!

Volunteers find working in our team a stimulating, worthwhile and fascinating part of their lives.

We need volunteers:

our 'Monday' team

  • to give advice to clients As the demand for our service is on the increase, we need more volunteers to train as advisers. If you want to give advice to clients, we will provide thorough training to provide the skills needed in this work. You may click here to see further details and an online application form.
  • to assist clients with form-filling
  • to take part in social policy projects
  • to help with office administration
  • to help with fund raising
  • to help run our computer system
  • to join the Management Committee.

if you would like to MAKE A DONATION you may click here

alternatively, you may wish to join our '200' club to help us raise funds (see below).

Some of the volunteers

If you would like to work with us as a volunteer, you can find all the details,including an online application form by clicking here. Alternatively you may contact the bureau at info@sevenoakscab.org.uk and we will be pleased to discuss what the work involves. If selected, you will have the opportunity to receive free training to be an advice worker, support worker or member of the Management Committee. No special qualifications are required and we are keen that the volunteers are representative of the community. We have an equal opportunities policy.

Would you like to join our "200" Club?

Many people are under the misapprehension that we are a government agency, whereas we are totally reliant on funding from grants and donations. This year, in addition to the funding provided by Sevenoaks District Council, we aim to raise at least £20,000 in order to maintain our, confidential, independent and impartial service. Valuable additional funds are provided by our "200" club. The cost of joining is just £12 per year (only £1 a month). This gives the opportunity to win one of two monthly prizes which together are equal to half of the monthly subscriptions. (The 1st prize = 30% of total subscriptions; 2nd prize = 20%. With 200 members these will be worth £60 and £40 respectively.)

Click here to see more details of the '200' club and an application form.