No matter what time of day you’re reading this right now, our services are available. Use our free phone line or use out online support service to reach us.

Weather conditions may affect our support staff numbers, but our services are open through the entire winter break. No matter if you call on Christmas day or New Year’s Eve, someone will help you with whatever it is you need. As with the rest of the year, during the winter break all of our support services are available 24 hours a day, seven days per week. It’s free and confidential.

Reach our support line via 0808 802 03 04, or get support through our online form here.

Our administrative offices are closed from 12pm on the 24th December until 4th January 2011, but this does not impact our service accessibility.

By Julian Stanley
Chief Executive
of Recourse

I want to tell you about Sarah. At the beginning of 2010 Sarah was struggling. A lecturer for over 20 years she had been out of work for six months and had recently separated from her husband. Her weekly benefits income was less than £70 per week and she was unable to pay her utility bills.

Like many others before her, Sarah called Recourse for help.

Our trained advisors offered her emotional and financial support as well as advice. They suggested that Sarah apply for a one-off grant. On this occasion, we were able to give Sarah an emergency grant of £1500 to cover her outstanding bills.

I am pleased to say that Sarah has now found a job, but we are still continuing to work with Sarah, giving financial advice and life for Sarah is gradually returning to normal.

Recourse (formerly CUSN) has been providing grants for lecturers and people working in Higher and Further education for many years.

A donation from you today means we can continue to help more serving, unemployed and retired lecturers like Sarah who turn to us when no-one else can help. Requests for grants have never been higher and with your help we can restore dignity to more colleagues like Sarah.

A one-off donation of £25 (or any amount you can afford) will go directly to the grants fund and is guaranteed not be spent on overheads, but on helping other people like Sarah.

Please make your donation today by donating now!

Thank you on behalf of Sarah and everyone who has turned to Recourse for help.

Julian Stanley,
Chief Executive

PS. Please send us your donation as soon as possible so we can help people straight away.

Do you reach post-16 educators on your website or blog? Wish them some happy holidays and share our free, confidential advice and support services by posting one of our website badges with a link to our website. While our charity runs on monetary donations to keep services open, we also need donated links so that more FE and He education staff can find us.

Copy the code at the right and paste it into the HTML on your website where you’d like it to appear. Send up an email or a Tweet, or contact us on Facebook to let us know where you’ve linked to us. Happy holidays, and thanks for donating a link!

Count down the days to Christmas with our advent calendar

Are you counting down the days to Christmas? Well, why not use our virtual advent calendar to do it? It’s filled with surprises and to the best of our knowledge has 0 calories! bookmark our calendar and open a door each day for tools and ideas on enjoying the holidays and starting 2011 off with better wellbeing and work/life balance.

use the buttons below to save on card shopping and print and send our card for the holidays
(For best results, print with a coulor printer on A4 card stock and then cut).