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Summer 2026 Newsletter

What does an advocate do? How can advocacy help vulnerable adults? What difference can one person make when someone is struggling with debt, housing issues, ...

Businesses play an important role in strengthening local communities. While many organisations want to make a positive difference, they are often unsure where their support ...

Finding the right support can be difficult, particularly when you are trying to navigate multiple services, organisations and systems at the same time. Many disabled ...

Housing problems can be stressful for anyone. When you're already dealing with health issues, disability, financial worries or a lack of support, they can quickly ...

When people hear the word "advocacy", they often think about someone attending a meeting or helping with paperwork. While advocacy can involve these things, the ...

If you've never worked with an advocate before, you may be wondering what happens during your first visit and whether advocacy is right for you. ...

If you're looking for support for yourself, a family member or someone you care about, you may have questions about advocacy and how it works. ...

A Shropshire charity has launched a powerful new campaign “A Visit Changes Everything” highlighting the life-changing impact its advocates have on some of the county’s ...

What does an advocate do? How can advocacy help vulnerable adults? What support is available for disabled people in Shropshire? These are questions we are ...

A Shropshire charity under threat of closure due to a funding crisis has received a reprieve thanks to an ongoing successful campaign that has raised ...

A Shropshire advocacy charity committed to supporting disabled and vulnerable people has launched a series of coffee and chat mornings aimed at combatting loneliness. Oswestry-based ...

One of Shropshire’s longest-standing support charities has signed up to a scheme which pledges to help serving and retired Armed Forces personnel and their families. ...

A team from an Oswestry business will take on a charity challenge this month in a bid to save a charity that supports vulnerable and ...

Without your help, Shropshire PCAS could be forced to close by Christmas.  This is the devastating reality we are facing, and it’s something we never ...

We would like to introduce you to Russ. Russ has lived with epilepsy and benign essential tremor for most of his life, finding a way ...

Deborah has been a client of PCAS for almost three years after being referred to us by a social worker. We asked her to talk ...

Bosses at one of Shropshire’s longest-standing support charities have warned it will be forced to close its doors permanently by December unless urgent funding is ...

WOW, 28 years have flown by, over that time we have tried very hard to make people's lives somewhat better than they used to be. ...

Delving into our latest annual report shows some quite interesting and indeed shocking statistics, during this period (up to March 2022) which still included some ...

As we are busy preparing our annual report for the year 2021/2022 we are reflecting on many achievements and challenges Back in 2021 we had ...

A charity that helps the most vulnerable and disabled people in society has been awarded a £50,000 grant to continue its work preventing people losing ...

On #TimeToTalk Day, we want to talk about mental health and how it affects all aspects of managing personal finance. One of the many areas ...

At PCAS, we are fortunate in being able to meet our clients in their homes and we know from experience that there is no substitute ...

Shropshire life line charity awarded £450,423 from The National Lottery - Reaching Communities Fund. Shropshire Peer Counselling & Advocacy Service (PCAS) has been running for ...

An Advocate is someone that supports another person dealing with difficult decisions about complex issues such as care, housing, family issues or finance. At some ...

Coronavirus disrupted our service considerably over the last year. New rules have come in, lockdowns imposed and lifted and we have seen a great increase ...

We all experience anxiety, it's a normal reaction to certain situations and helps us respond. It is often said that the right amount of anxiety ...

Vulnerable people often don't have the ability to make decisions or they find it hard to have their voices heard when decisions are being made ...

As an independent charity, with no government subsidies, our work in the community is only made possible by the generous contributions of a handful of ...

We are delighted that Richard Burbidge and their sister company Atkinson & Kirby have selected PCAS as their nominated community and charity partner for 2020. ...

How it all started The charity was founded in 1995 by the Shropshire Disability Consortium, providing a community based independent advocacy service for people with ...

We sat down with PCAS founder Simon Arthur to understand the increasingly important and challenging role the charity has in our region. Simon Arthur, Manager ...