Poverty Help
"When things get out of hand you start arguing, you feel your marriage isn't working. To be honest, it's hard to love someone when you're in that much debt. It affects everything. You haven't got food on the table ..but you want the best for your children." "The only thing that stopped me from suicide was that fact that I loved the children".
Clayton, South Wales (from an article in CAP magazine Changing Lives 2007)
Serious Statistics
- Personal debt in Britain now amounts to £1.3trillion
- Two-thirds of EU credit card debt is British
- mortgage repossession orders jumped by 66% in 2005
- one in twelve households in Britain don't have access to a bank account
- one in three couples in the UK can't sleep at night for worrying about money
- the poorest UK households spend £25 on food per week
- one in four people in debt are receiving treatment for stress, depression and anxiety from their GP
Help
Help is available from CAP. Our local one is:
4a Ridley Avenue
Ealing
W13 9XW
0208 579-8882
ealing@capuk.org
Open Mon, Wed, Thurs.
Contacts
Anna Weaver, from the Ealing branch, visited our church on 28th January 2007. CAP have successfully worked on strategies for debt management for 10 years. They have an impressive success rate. A CAP centre will only be run if linked to a church. In the first instance please contact:
Helping CAP
From 1996 - 2006 CAP helped 13,712 people. Their vision is to open 10 advice centres per year. But this does not come cheap. Can you help transform lives ? Either donate directly or they have a large number of organised ways that others can help raise funds to run their advice centres. See
http://www.capuk.org/FundraisingA_Z/fundraising-ideas
We have a contact at St James.
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