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Christians Against Poverty Debt Centre for Wythenshawe and SK8
The Wythenshawe Cap Debt Centre opened its doors metaphorically on the 1st September 2020.
The Debt Centre is run in partnership with The Wythenshawe Methodist Churches and Wythenshawe Oasis, and the Debt Centre Manager is Cassie Jennings.
Christians Against Poverty are a national award winning charity offering FREE, long term face to face debt counselling provided in client’s homes. At the moment the appointments are over the phone/ via google meet or socially distanced chats in church, due to COVID.
The Wythenshawe Cap Debt Centre provides this service in Wythenshawe M22, M23 and M90 as well as All SK8 Postcodes at the present time. Long term holistic support with volunteer befriending support and practical support such as food shopping, practical tasks, and emotional support is available to all clients.
The service is really in-depth and long term. CAP head office contacts all the creditors on behalf of the client and negotiates with them, working out a way forward for each person. CAP deals with the banks, councils, credit card companies and payday loan companies every day, gaining their respect. We then support clients as they work their way out of debt, or if the amount is too large, offer insolvency options.
CAP will help anyone regardless of their age, gender, faith or background.
We have received half of the funding for the next five years but we now need to start raising money directly, to cover the other half of the money the debt centre will need to run. The Centre needs about £20,000 a year which will allow us to pay our Debt Centre Manager who will work with the skilled team at CAP headquarters in Bradford, as well as many other expenses and outgoings.
Our Debt Centre will be able to help 4 new clients a month as well as supporting existing clients until they reach a fully debt free life. That means nearly 50 households a year can get our support to move to having their money under control and be out of debt.
Wythenshawe has a terrible combination of deprivation factors of which debt is a huge one. Our community research shows us that locally people see Debt as one of the biggest problems so we are doing something about this!
If we can find 130 regular donors giving an average of £10 a month, with gift aid, we will be able to run sustainably. More than that and we will be able to help more people.
If you would like to donate anything from £1 a month or make a one off payment please can you email Cassie on Cassiejennings@capuk.org for a gift aid form and the bank details are below.
For donations our bank account details are:
Account Name: Wythenshawe Oasis
Account Number: 20409979
Sort Code: 60-83-01
Please get in touch with Cassie Jennings at cassiejennings@capuk.org if you would like to give or know more.
Our Wythenshawe team will happily come and talk to any group about the project and the way CAP works, get in touch with Cassie if you are interested.