Support Us

Wakefield District Citizens Advice Bureau is an independent registered charity. We currently receive a grant from Wakefield Council to help maintain our generalist services but we rely on grants, donations and ongoing funding to keep operating and to implement and develop new projects. You can find out more about our funding from our annual report.

We are lucky enough to get funding from several sources. Those who fund specific projects set us targets to meet and this work is mostly carried out by paid caseworkers with paid admin support and some paid managerial time too. There is a need for our workers to keep abreast of current legislation too, which involves attending training courses and travel expenses. Those projects which involve home visiting have travel costs too. And there is the cost of running the premises, post, stationery, phones, furniture, IT support, hardware and software.

Most people who come to us are seen by one of our team of trained volunteer advice workers. These wonderful people give us their time free, they need to be trained to a very high standard and supported in the work they do by paid advice session supervisors, admin staff and other specialist workers. All this costs money too.

But we also raise a lot of income for the local community by identifying benefits that are not claimed, helping people manage and reschedule their debts (including council tax arrears for the local authority), avoid homelessness by negotiating on rent and mortgage arrears and identifying and claiming grants from local and national charities. We increase the income of our clients by several million pounds each year in this way.

None of this would be possible without the funding we get. And the more we are given, the more people we can help in this way and the more money gets spent in the local economy - so everyone benefits !

How you can help us

• To enable the bureau to deliver the kind of modern service needed today we need help in purchasing IT equipment and training bureaux staff to use it
• We always need money for equipment in general or for our premises, for example, to improve access for people with disabilities
• If you are upgrading office equipment, we may be able to make use of your old equipment
• Sponsorship money for items such as leaflets, posters and our annual report could help improve the promotion of our services to the local community
• Make us the Charity of the Year at your company. Donations from raffles or contests, no matter how big or small, are always welcome
• If you are a company do you have staff that you could second or encourage to volunteer some time to provide mentoring skills to the bureau?
• We are registered with the Inland Revenue for payroll giving
• Ensure that all donations are covered by a Gift Aid declaration (you must be a UK taxpayer to do this)

Whether you are an individual, company or charitable trust, if you would like to support us then please do contact us.

Send donations by cheque payable to "Wakefield District CAB" to District Office, 27 King Street, Wakefield WF1 2SR.

You can donate online by going to :-
http://www.charitygiving.co.uk/donate/donate_b.asp?charityid=5184

NEW - JustTextGiving

Wakefield District CABx will be amongst the first charities in the country to use its own, unique personalised text code, YPAL07, to raise funds using JustTextGiving by Vodafone.

This is a brand new, free service for charities, that has no set up or fundraising costs for charities, no network charges for people making donations and every penny donated goes to charity. Gift Aid can also be added to donations.

From today, you can make donations of up to £10 by texting YPAL07 and either 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10 to 70070 to make a donation. The text message is free and all of the donation will be passed to us.

For further information about JustTextGiving by Vodafone please visit justtextgiving.co.uk (opens in new window)

Getting in touch

If you think you can help us, please contact District Office on districtoffice@wakefielddistrictcab.co.uk or telephone us on 01924 378063. Please note that we are unable to give advice on this telephone number.