Award Winning Advice Charity

This week we were delighted to receive an award from the High Sheriff of Devon, Gerald Hine-Haycock, in recognition of our ongoing support to local people throughout the pandemic. He described us as the ‘fourth blue light emergency service’ and the ‘unsung heroes of the crisis’. Our Chief Officer, Office Manager and Trustee were very pleased to accept the award on behalf of everyone in the organisation.

We provide free, confidential and impartial advice. Our goal is to help you find a way forward, whatever problem you face, and to campaign for change on the issues affecting people's lives.

We’re an independent charity and part of the Citizens Advice network. Most of our 86-strong team are trained volunteers, and we are supported by local councils, a variety of specialist funders, and the general public. We serve a population of 87,000 across South Hams and handle thousands of enquiries each year.

We have changed our service provision due to the Coronavirus outbreak. See the Contact Us page for more details.

Our paid staff and volunteers are doing all they can to keep our service operational. However we expect that you may experience a delay before your enquiry is responded to. We apologise for this and hope you will bear with us during these unprecedented times.

Please click on the link below to see a series of training modules on the benefits and other financial support available to different groups of people:

https://cabdevon.org.uk/training

• Support for self-employed people
• Employees who are away from work because of COVID-19
• Help with Council Tax

The Lockdown Walk

Week 5 ended and we have walked not just from Land’s End to John O’ Groats, but returning down across to Northern Ireland, into Ireland, across to Wales, onto London (our Head Office), back along the south coast and popped in to see our colleagues across on the far side of Dartmoor before heading home to Totnes. Our first target was 1260 miles, then in the second week we decided to increase it to more than double to 2690 miles. Well by week 5 we have actually walked 3167 miles. Well done all of our walkers of CA South Hams! Very importantly we have raised £2170 for our office. Thank you so much to each and every one of you that contributed your steps, km’s and miles. Thank you to all that made donations which will make such a contribution to what we do in our South Hams community.