Christians Against Poverty

North Devon Debt Centre

Christians Against Poverty (CAP) is a Christian charity in the UK founded by John Kirkby in 1996. It is a national organisation specialising in debt counselling for people in financial difficulty

Life Skills: Our Life Skills Courses help people to find ways of living within a budget. If you’d like to know more please contact Ben Warrender

Need help with debt in North Devon or Torridge?

If you need free and confidential debt advice, then Christians Against Poverty can help. Please call this number for free 0800 328 0006 and make an appointment with one of our two debt coaches.  Around the country thousands of people have already been released from the weight of debt through a combination of advice, financial  education, budgeting and insolvency services.

Our heart is to reach those in North Devon and Torridge who are living with unmanageable debt and share God’s love with them. Our Debt Centre is supported by churches from across the region.

All the financial advice comes from the Bradford Head Office who organise a budget for the client to follow, deal with creditors and manage bill payments.  Our two Debt coaches meet clients through online calls or face to face visits in the church and support them until they are debt free. Our service is completely free to clients and we won’t take any commission.

CAP COACHES

Ben Warrender
Centre Manager & Debt Coach North Devon

Sylvia West
Debt Coach Torridge

Lynne Bowden
Debt Coach Barnstaple

CAP MONEY BUDGETING AND MONEY MANAGEMENT COURSE

CAP Money is a practical, hands-on, 5-week course run online to help you manage your money and finances. For more information please see the CAP Money website.

You’ll also be able to find out about our next courses.

CAP Money:

  • A simple, yet highly effective money management course

  • Teaches people budgeting skills and a system that really works

  • Help anyone to get more in control of their finances

  • Learn to build a budget

  • Learn to save

  • Learn prevent and reduce debt

  • Mix of video clips, activities and discussion

  • The service we offer is online and completely free

For more information contact Ben Warrender or call 07383741901

CAP Job Club

Your CAP local job club is a friendly place where you’ll get practical help and gain the tools you need to find work. 

It’s a friendly place where you can meet like-minded people local to you, while gaining the skills and support you need to find a job you’ll love. Being unemployed can be hard to navigate on your own, but being part of one of our job clubs means you face the challenge with other people in similar situations.

CAP Job Club runs at Holy Trinity Church, Barnstaple. For more information, please contact: andrewrowland@capjobclubs.org