Community resource center
The center is a community hub for disadvantaged people who are minority ethnic community members and refugees where they can get help and the support they need to solve the problems they may be experiencing in their daily lives through personal support, signposting and referrals
The center is often used as the first point of contact for help for the majority of our community members and the only channel through which they can reach mainstream services
The center provides services and support for black and minority ethnic communities and refugees on critical issues affecting them ranging from unemployment, education and access to health care and welfare benefits.
The centre provides information and advice sessions, activities and support for black and minority ethnic communities and refugees on a wide range of issues.
The centre can provide help with the following:
- Information, advice and guadence
- Help with form filling
- CV writing, covering letters and job interview technics
- Translation and interpreting service
- Housing Benefit
- Working and child tax credits
- Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
- Pension Credit
Benefits
• Housing Benefit
• Working and child tax credits
• Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
• Pension Credit
• Income Support
• Universal Credit
• Bereavement benefits
• Support for mortgage interest (SMI)
Benefits
- Housing Benefit
- Working and child tax credits
- Universal credit
- Pension Credit
- Income support
- Bereavement benefits
- Support for morgage interest (SMI)
Help with benefits
Sickness, disability and carers
- Benefit calculators: what benefits can you get
- Payment of benefits and tax credits
- How volunteering affects your benefits – overview
- Problems with benefits and tax credits
- Child Benefit
- Check what benefits to claim if you’re sick or disabled
- Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
- Personal Independence Payment
- Attendance Allowance
- Disability Living Allowance for children