CoGS (Community Guidance Service)

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Everbody is welcome to ask for our help. Contact us by:

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• Drop in at Community Point Resource Centre and ask for Linda or Tina

• Telephone 0161 795 9513 and ask for Linda or Tina

• Leave a confidential email at cogs.fast-uk.org

• Download our referral form

 

Our IAG Workers are trained to understand a wide range of community difficulties and are skilled at referring to specialist support agencies. The Service is supported by the Cheetham Advice Centre. 

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CoGS provides one-to-one condidential information, advice and guidance. Bi-lingual Support Workers are available to address language and cultural barriers.  

 

Practical help people typically ask us for includes:

• housing

• benefits

• contracts of work

• debt

• asylum

• abuse

• lack of skills and qualifications

• letters

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The kinds of referrals we make include helping people with:

• self-harm and suicide

• family conflict

• domestic abuse

• homelessness

• modern day slavery

• hate crime

• alcohol and drug abuse