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Beware of scammers. Report it to stop it!

More than two thirds of adults (36 million) have been targeted by a scammer since January this year. While people aged over 55 are more likely to be targeted, those 34 and under are almost five times more likely to fall victim to a scam. Younger people were most likely to be targeted by text or messaging service, while those over 55 were most likely to be targeted over the phone.

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Curo Hot Topics - Universal Credit

Sarah and Dawn from Curo's Customer Accounts Team talk all things Universal Credit. Are you claiming for everything you're entitled to? Get in touch today to find out. Enjoy this discussion? We have even more chats like this on our Youtube channel.

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Curo Hot Topics - Money advice from Customer Accounts

Sarah and Dawn from Curo's Customer Accounts team talk about ways they can help make your money go further. Enjoy this discussion? We have even more chats like this on our Youtube channel. Get in touch with our Customer Accounts team here.

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Overdrawn? You can tell your bank how to use money that comes in

Did you know that we all have the right to say how money paid into our bank account is used? Most people don’t know this. If your bank account is overdrawn, you can tell the bank not to use money going into your account to reduce the level of your overdraft. Instead, you can use this money to pay for bills, rent etc first. This is called the 'First Right of Appropriation'. How do I…

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Prizes to be won with our VoiceBox 'Mini Makes with Mich' Easter Competition

Time to get EGG-cited about Easter with the return of the VoiceBox Mini Makes competition! Show off your creative side with our FREE Easter Bonnet kit. To get your free kit all you need to do is login to VoiceBox and request a pack on our Forum pages or get in touch with us at VoiceBox@Curo-group.co.uk. Please add your own items to make it more unique and eye-catching. To ent…

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Providing housing for people fleeing the war in Ukraine

At Curo, we stand with Ukraine. Like many other housing associations, we already provide housing and support for refugees from other parts of the world, and we are ready to help again. We are talking to our local authority partners about the support we can offer as a housing association.

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St Mary's School get £1,200 from community funding pot

Pupils from St Mary's Primary School will receive new picnic benches thanks to a donation from a joint Curo and Travis Perkins community funding pot. In total, £1,200 was given to the school from the funding pot, which is available for local community projects and ideas. Michelle Sage: It was an absolute pleasure to be able to present a cheque for £1200.oo to St Marys Sch…

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Ask Curo Facebook Live March 2022 - watch again

Thanks to everyone who joined us for our Ask Curo Facebook Live session on 8 March 2022. We received lots of great questions and answered as many as we could live - we'll be getting back to any we weren't able to address when we were live. You can watch all of our Facebook Live sessions here. We hope to hear from you in our next live chat.

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Community brings back pub-based dementia drop-in

A dementia-friendly drop-in group in Portishead held a special event on Friday 4 March to celebrate and thank the community champions who have helped the group to survive and thrive through the COVID pandemic.