Bracknell Forest Homes offers tenants Christmas budgeting tips

Bracknell Forest Homes and the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) have teamed up to offer budgeting and benefit advice to tenants and leaseholders in the borough.

The free session called “The Christmas Budgeting Session”, will be led by the CAB and is designed to give practical tips about the best ways to save for Christmas, keeping your Christmas budgeting under control, avoiding a debt hangover in the New Year and other topics which may be helpful before and after Christmas. Everyone who attends will be entered into a prize draw to win one of two luxury hampers courtesy of Mears (one of Bracknell Forest Homes’ major works contractors.)

The session details are as follows:
Monday 16 November, 10am at Easthampstead Baptist Church.

Linda Wells, Housing and Community Services Director, said: “We are very pleased to be working with the CAB to offer assistance and information that we hope will help people who are experiencing financial pressures during this difficult economic climate. Christmas is sometimes a stressful time financially especially for families and we hope that some of our customers will take up the offer of this free session and find it useful.”

Bracknell Forest Homes also employs two benefits advisors who can advise on the range of welfare benefits available and can help tenants and leaseholder’s complete forms to claim benefits to which they may be entitled.

Rhiannon Stocking-Williams, Chief Executive of Bracknell and District Citizens Advice Bureau, said: “Working together with Bracknell Forest Homes is a fantastic opportunity to help their tenants with managing their money in this hard economic climate and to access the wide range of services, such as benefit entitlement checks, debt management and consumer enquiries, that we offer free in our town centre office and outreach sessions across the borough.”

For more information about benefits advice tenants can call Bracknell Forest Homes’ freephone 0800 692 3000 or visit www.bracknellforesthomes.org.uk.

If customers require any assistance to attend the CAB session such as free transport or help with child care costs this can be arranged by contacting Emma Martin on 01344 382912.

Refreshments will also be provided.

For more information please visit www.adviceguide.org.uk