Working in partnership

Both locally and nationally, the CAB Service is at the heart of the community.  CAS is actively developing relationships with all sorts of statutory, voluntary and commercial organisations to further the aims of the CAB service in Scotland.

You can tell a lot about an organisation by the company it keeps.  Did you know about the following projects that CAS and bureaux are currently involved with? 

• The Big Lottery Fund has funded CAS to build a Volunteer Support Team, aimed at increasing both recruitment and retention of CAB Service volunteers across the country

• We work with HMRC to enable a higher take up of tax credits and to help sort out tax credit issues

• We are developing work with veterans and the armed forces community to ensure that people who have served in the armed forces and their relatives have access to advice and support about the issues that they are facing

• We work with the NHS across Scotland to deliver advice, and provide IASS, an independent support service for patients who are seeking to raise health related issues with their NHS board

• We work with Shelter Scotland to provide information and training to our member bureaux through the Scottish Homelessness Advisory Service (SHAS). SHAS provides expert advice where it's needed most

• We work with Money Advice Scotland (MAS) on the Money Advice, Training, Resource, Information and Consultancy Service (MATRICS) project, providing expert support to money advisers in the CAB Service and beyond. The Scottish Government has funded MATRICS to improve the quality and quantity of money advice

• We work with the Pension Service in communities across Scotland to ensure pensioners have the advice and support they need to claim benefits, such as Pension Credit, to which they can be entitled
• we also work with the Money Advice Trust to provide money advice training and development of the wiseradviser website

Contact us if you would like to find out more about how CAS can work with you.