Cancer Support in conjunction
with MacMillan 

When a person is diagnosed with Cancer, money might not be one of the first things that they think about, but having Cancer can be expensive. They may be unable to work, have to pay for a special diet, child care or travelling expenses. If you know of someone who is struggling to cope with the financial effect of Cancer, Peterborough Citizens Advice Bureau can provide free, impartial and confidential help.

This help is in the form of three Welfare Rights Advisors and Two Administrators who run a project that is funded by Macmillan.
The advisors are able to provide people suffering from Cancer and their families with advice on a range of topics, including applying for and appealing against benefit decisions, accessing charitable grants, applying for local authority financial support such as school clothing grants, applying for transport concessions such as disabled parking badge and housing costs . We are also able to advise on other issues such as housing, debt, immigration and employment.  See our leaflet.

The CAB Welfare Rights Advisors are not only able to see clients at the bureau office, but are happy to visit clients in their own home if more appropriate to the clients needs.

How to refer

If you know of a patient who you feel would benefit from our services, you are able to refer the client directly to the project administrators by calling 01733 887915.

Alternatively, you may wish to complete our interactive referral form (see top right) and email it or fax it to 01733 340028. The project administrators will then contact the client to arrange for them to see a CAB Welfare Rights Advisor.

Some client comments:

‘Thank you for all you did for me. I was very happy with the service you gave me.’

‘Thank you so much for your help, advice and understanding. An excellent and much appreciated service.’

‘I would like to say a huge thank you for all the support I have received.’

Referrals

Download the electronic referral form 

 

You can fill in the form on-line and save a copy to
e-mail to us.  Full instructions are on the form.

There is also the option to print the completed form for your records.

For privacy reasons, we cannot recommend completing this form online if you are accessing the site from a public computer.

You are likely to already have Adobe Reader on your computer but, if not or you require a more recent version, you can obtain a copy, free of charge, via this link.