Wiltshire Citizen’s Advice is reminding people that their services are still operating despite the English National Lockdown. Wiltshire Citizens Advice offers free, confidential, impartial advice online, over the phone and via email. Face to face drop-in services remains closed due to the lockdown. However, they continue to provide advisory services over the phone and by email. Wiltshire Citizen’s Advice was…
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SWAN is launching a new service in South Wiltshire offering free, confidential advice to help people resolve financial worries, prepare and manage a budget and break free of debt. CMA professionally trained advisors will help people to work out a manageable budget to relieve immediate pressure, negotiate with creditors to plan affordable repayments and give ongoing support to manage money efficiently and…
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A CORONAVIRUS fund grant is helping a charity set up a new finance and debt advice service in Salisbury to cope with redundancies caused by the pandemic. The Swan Advocacy Network is setting up a Community Money Advice service in South Wiltshire with a £9,700 grant from the Wiltshire Community Foundation’s Coronavirus Response and Recovery Fund. The fund has raised…
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As business owners, now more than ever is the time to step out from behind the laptop, forget about profits and performance for a minute or two and check in on your team from afar. All too often, the hectic nature of the workplace often leads to even the smallest of gestures being overlooked. Perhaps like me, you’ve become quite…
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With an estimated nine million people furloughed and new job vacancies at a record low, it’s understandable why there is cause for concern over the job market in the coming months. As Lock-down restrictions ease, we find ourselves heading into a ‘New Norm’ which essentially translates into a new way of working. Let’s face it – a lot of things…
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For most of us, the term ‘furloughed’ meant nothing only a couple of months ago. However since ‘Lock-down’, it’s probably become one of the most commonly used words across the business spectrum. Furloughing was introduced to help businesses deal with the storm they had to endure throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. It meant those who were put on the job retention…
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