Christine Buck secures a Lexmark donation

Christine Buck recently graduated from one of our training courses and has been coming to our Islington debt advice project as a trainee adviser ever since.

We have a small portable printer at our project which is not ideal, so Christine decided to write to Lexmark telling them how happy she was with her Lexmark printer at home and whether they would consider donating one to the project, which they promptly did. The printer, scanner and fax machine will make our work on behalf of our debt clients so much easier to do. Thank you Lexmark for your generous donation.

In the picture you see Christine Buck on the left and Susan McLaren, our centre coordinator, on the right.

As an organisation we rely on the time, effort and dedication of our volunteers and Christine is a fantastic example of the kind of volunteer that make things happen!

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Gandhi quote on scaffolding around a City of London building site.

Mandy Wiles

Mandy has been a volunteer with Community Money for about 1 year. She works in a North London restaurant. After a training period shadowing experienced volunteer advisers, she took on her first client in December of last year. The client was entitled to council tax exemption as a student. The council did not update its records and demanded more than £1000 in overdue council tax - threatening court action to collect the sum, creating a lot of anxiety for the client.

After months of correspondence and telephone calls the council agreed it made a mistake, updated its record, and it turned out the client was even entitled to a £50 credit. The client was ecstatic and Mandy celebrated her first client success. "It comes down to being persistent", she says. "And doing your research."

Our volunteer advisers help clients with money and debt issues, big and small, every week across our 3 London locations. For our locations please see the map on our Advice page.

Residents from across London have celebrated their graduation as trained Money Advisers - in a new initiative designed to help communities tackle indebtedness. For some background click here.

New map shows locations of money and debt advice centres

We now run community based money and debt centres across 3 locations in London: Brixton, Islington and Wood Green. To find the exact location of each please go to our advice page here: advice page.