- Money & Debt Managing your money and dealing with debt
- Housing Help if you are homeless, a home owner or a tenant
- Employment Loss of job, redundancy, sick, injured or disabled
- Benefits & Tax Credits Check what you're entitled to
- Family Issues Relationships in the family, divorce and separation
- Carers Access to support and local services
- Credit Unions What are they and find one near you
- Other Links Links to organisations
About Us
Advice Derbyshire (AD) was launched in Jan 2009 and is a partnership organisation that represents the leading independent advice agencies in the County of Derbyshire (excl Derby city).
Key Independent Advice Agencies have come together to develop a County wide consortium, with a view to planning and providing advice services coherently and effectively across the County.
Our vision is:
To improve access to opportunities and create a fairer society, we will ensure that the people of Derbyshire, especially those in the greatest need, have access to the most effective advice, assistance and representation in respect of their social and legal rights.
Advice Derbyshire has four clear functions:
- To maintain current services
- To develop new areas of work
- To provide support, build capacity and raise quality standards in advice provision
Members of the Advice Derbyshire Consortium are:
- Chesterfield Law Centre
- Derbyshire Unemployed Workers' Centres
- North East Derbyshire Citizens Advice Bureau
- Citizens Advice Amber Valley, Derbyshire Dales and Erewash
- High Peak Citizens Advice Bureau
- South Derbyshire Citizens Advice Bureau
- Chesterfield Citizens Advice Bureau
Advice Derbyshire Projects currently underway:
- Financial Inclusion Partnership lead for Derbyshire
- Associate Membership Project
- County Wide Information, Advice and Advocacy Project
- Building partnership links with other key groups - eg 3D, Derbyshire Housing Association (DHA)
- Access to Advice - The main aim of this project is to improve access to quality advice services throughout the County of Derbyshire (excluding Derby City), by enhancing the current service provisions. The project is about opening up access to provisions in a variety of formats - electronically, text messaging, internet phone, email, a single telephone number for Derbyshire and self help
This project is funded by the Big Lottery and it commenced in July 2009 when the project manager, Maxine Maybury, was appointed.
If you would like more information about the project please contact Maxine by email at maxinem@advicederbyshire.org
If you would like to find out more about Advice Derbyshire you can contact Steven Minter, Advice Derbyshire strategic director, by email at districtmanager.highpeakcab@cabnet.org.uk