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29 Oct 2026
Citizens Advice – your local national service
We are a network of over 240 local organisations across the country providing information, advice and guidance which is free, independent, impartial and confidential on issues ranging from…
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29 Oct 2026
Bringing advice closer to rural communities
North Yorkshire Citizens Advice and Law Centre’s Advice Bus is helping people in dispersed rural communities access vital advice and support, wherever they live. For people living in…
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03 Aug 2026
Rural Making a Difference: Turning Evidence into Action
Wednesday 16 September 2026 | 1:30pm–3:30pm | Online How can evidence, lived experience and local knowledge be used to influence policy and deliver meaningful change for rural communities?…
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30 Sep 2025
Local Evidence Highlights Hidden Child Poverty
A new report from Citizens Advice Stroud & Cotswold Districts has exposed the extent of child poverty in areas often perceived as affluent. Child Poverty: Local Evidence –…
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22 Apr 2025
The Full Package on Rural Postal Services
Citizens Advice has published a new report, The Full Package: What Consumers Need from a Changing Postal Service, providing detailed insight into how people across England and Wales…
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11 Feb 2025
Celebrating Student Volunteering Week With Citizens Advice!
People often think of volunteers as being retired professionals but did you know that Citizens Advice TNMWD have a number of student volunteers? 10 – 16 February is…
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30 Sep 2024
Citizens Advice Data Insights events return and the data is clear: the cost-of-living crisis is far from over…
Join Citizens Advice on 15 October, 1-2pm for an in-depth analysis of the latest living standards data. The session will explore the delicate balance the Chancellor must achieve in…
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01 May 2024
Citizens Advice Bus Celebrates First Birthday Helping Rural Communities
One year ago in April 2023, our Advice Bus was launched, providing free advice to the people of East Dorset & Purbeck, many of whom live in rurally…
Read more24 Oct 2023
Exciting times in Rural Devon as we review the first half of this financial year
In almost all areas we are seeing the numbers of problems people bring to us increase enormously and becoming more complex therefore taking longer to advise on and…
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24 Oct 2023
The Cost-of-Living Crisis and the Rising Need for Crisis Support
Since 2020 the number of clients in the East Riding of Yorkshire who we have been supporting – both new clients and returning clients has been on the…
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25 May 2023
Rural households left feeling isolated by the cost of living crisis
A survey of rural households out today by the Rural Services Network (RSN), shows that more than 75% of respondents say that their financial situation has got worse…
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19 May 2023
One million cancel broadband as living costs rise
The BBC reports that up to one million people cancelled their broadband in the last year because of the high cost of living, a survey by Citizens Advice…
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02 May 2023
Detailed report exploring the cost-of-living crisis in rural areas released
The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Rural Business and the Rural Powerhouse has released a detailed report exploring the cost-of-living crisis in rural areas and investigating the…
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03 Apr 2023
Cost of living survey now closed – results to follow
…and its finally closed! We have now closed the cost of living survey that the Rural Services Network has been running alongside the Rural Issues Group of the…
Read more02 Feb 2023
The Crisis Continues
As the impact of the cost of living crisis continues to hit households, we are seeing a huge demand for our service across Hull and East Riding. Clients…
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02 Feb 2023
Providing free confidential and impartial advice
Citizens Advice North Yorkshire (CANY) is a registered charity providing free, confidential, and impartial advice, information, and support to people in our communities. As an independent charity, we…
Read more16 Jan 2023
Suffering from the rural cost of living? Make your thoughts known in household survey
The Rural Services Network in partnership with the Citizens Advice Rural Issues Group has launched a Rural Cost of Living Household Survey Independent research commissioned by the RSN…
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19 Dec 2022
Rural poverty: ‘We’ve got two full-time jobs and it’s still not enough to pay the bills’
ITV News reports that a new YouGov Survey for End Fuel Poverty Coalition revealed that half of those who live in rural households are classed as vulnerable –…
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12 Dec 2022
Some Cornwall residents could lose all their Freeview TV channels
Hundreds of people in mainly rural communities of Cornwall could lose their TV channels. Citizens Advice Cornwall is backing a campaign to protect TV and radio services in…
Read more26 Oct 2022
Cost of Living Crisis
At Citizens Advice Hull and East Riding we are seeing the impact that the continuing cost of living crisis is having on members of our community on a…
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04 Apr 2022
Is Government support for rural post offices enough to save them?
The below article (published by Anne Pardoe at Citizens Advice) discusses whether recently announced Government funding for rural post offices is enough to keep them operating The government…
Read more14 Mar 2022
Calls for new price cap on heating oil as cost of living rises
BBC reports that around 1.5million households in rural areas use oil to heat their homes and like other forms of energy, the cost of oil has spiralled in…
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08 Feb 2022
Impact of Outreach and Temporary Closures on Post Office Access
A report by the Citizens Advice illustrates how the post office network continues to provide vital access to essential face-to-face services. Nearly 1 in 5 (18%) people visit a…
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24 Jan 2022
Report highlights the countrysides digital exclusion problem
Citizens Advice help people get their lives back on track through advice This gives them a body of data from which to spot how people’s lives are changing…
Read more18 Oct 2021
A joint letter to the Chancellor – Securing the Future of Rural Post Offices
A joint letter has been signed by Citizens Advice, the Consumer Council for Northern Ireland, Age UK, and Action with Communities in Rural England calling on the Chancellor…
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06 Sep 2021
Advice service extends to rural communities
The Gazette and Herald reports that Citizens Advice Mid North Yorkshire’s Rural Advice Van is now visiting venues across the district following the success of a pilot scheme…
Read more01 Feb 2021
Citizens Advice: ‘One in Six Feel Broadband Bill Burden’
One in six people are struggling to keep up with their broadband bills, according to a new Citizens Advice survey published in Forbes this week As more households…
Read more14 Sep 2020
Call for the government to increase funding for Post Offices
The Citizens Advice has published a briefing and a blog calling on Government to increase the subsidy to the post office network at the upcoming spending review, in…
Read more03 Aug 2020
How well are post offices delivering cash and banking services?
Below is a recently released report written by Citizens Advice: Despite a huge increase in cashless spending and rising online banking, 14% of consumers and 20% of small businesses…
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