Ipswich and District Citizens Advice is an independent local charity that has been providing free, confidential and impartial advice to residents of Ipswich and the surrounding area since 1974. As part of the national Citizens Advice network, they offer guidance on a wide range of issues including benefits, debt, housing and employment.
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Since 1974, thousands of Ipswich residents have walked through Citizens Advice's doors with their most difficult problems. Five decades of frontline experience have given the charity a unique vantage point on a town that has changed a great deal since it first opened.
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Students who want to improve their job prospects while helping people in their community are being urged to volunteer with Citizens Advice Ipswich ahead of Student Volunteering Week.
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Ipswich Borough Council is set to approve £72,000 in Community Cash Grants to three voluntary organisations supporting vulnerable residents, homelessness services and advice provision across the town.
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Last year, two people died while sleeping rough in Ipswich. Their deaths went unpublicised, part of a crisis affecting around a thousand people on any given night – most of them invisible in official counts.
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More than seven million people across the UK are estimated to have been deceived by scams in the past 12 months, as opportunistic fraudsters exploit hard times with increasingly sophisticated tactics that are getting harder to spot, Citizens Advice Ipswich has warned.
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