Our supported
charity in August is Helping Hands. They offer a free, individual, face to
face and confidential service to help
people deal with financial problems, debts, employment, or housing. In particular, they assist and advise about
Welfare Benefit applications, with form filling and letter writing. They
provide help with utility bills, consumer issues and family law.
In their
publicity they say:” We have recently developed an outreach service so we can
represent you at Welfare Benefit appeals and Tribunals. We can also go to the homes of housebound
people to help them to fill out Welfare Benefit applications and deal with
debts etc.
We offer a ‘one
stop shop’ service, so we can, for instance, provide a full package of care and
assistance to the victims of domestic abuse including housing, financial and
legal help.
We are
encouraging anyone with debt problems to seek our help at an early stage. Please, don’t let your debts mount up, and
find that your interest payments are getting out of control. Just seek our help.”
So, we pray for
their work and for the team that offers consultation at the Methodist Church.
We pray for
people forced to use pay day loans and those who make money from them, that
they may escape from their snare.
