benefit barriers

Aberdeen Care & Repair

Aberdeen Care & Repair.gifFull Member logo.jpg  Aberdeen Care & Repair is a service funded by Aberdeen City Council for older people and people with disabilities resident within the city of Aberdeen.

Aberdeen Care & Repair is part of Castlehill Housing Association, a registered charity. Aberdeen Care & Repair Group has been established as a charity (Reg. No. SC015306) to raise funds to give financial support to some clients.

Aberdeen Care & Repair provide technical assistance to clients about:-

  • repairs
  • improvements
  • heating
  • adaptations in their homes
  • safety & security within the home
  • operate a in-house handyman service
Contact: 
Karen Milne
Telephone Number: 
01224 251130
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Case study: transition from unpaid to paid disabled workers (2006)

This report describes the experiences of, and lessons learned by, an enterprise based in Bristol called Grounds and Gardens.  

Addressing benefit barriers to work

Author: 
Social Firms UK & Social Enterprise Partnership
2005
Free
Social Firms UK

This guide highlights all the work led on by Social Firms UK within the EQUAL SEP programme about the disincentives to work created by the Benefits System. It is a mixture of summary and celebration about the impact that this work has already achieved. Other useful reading:

which are both available as freely downloadable pdfs from this website.