ABC Wins a One Stop Convenience Store - Carriers for Causes, Grant

The ASSOCIATION OF PENSION & BENEFITS CLAIMANTS CIC (the ABC) has been awarded a £1,000 One Stop Carriers for Causes scheme grant to help purchase a projector, screen, roller banners and presentation material to enable the organisation to do talks.

Simon Collyer, the ABC founder, has appeared twice very recently on TV channel RT UK – formerly known as Russia Today.  The latest interview was to publicize the launch of the Disability Benefits Consortium report, Has Welfare Become Unfair launched in the Attlee Suite at Portcullis House, in the Palace of Westminster.  Over 50 MP’s responded to the invitation to attend the report launch and Simon was given an invitation to meet DWP Work and Pensions Committee member Neil Coyle MP, former DBC Co-Chair in the Houses of Parliament later in the summer.  

‘This equipment will enable us to do talks to audiences’ says Simon, ‘from schools to youth clubs and so on’. 

‘Going on TV to talk about Disability Benefits was the one of the most challenging things I have ever had to do’ said Simon.  ‘It is a very technical subject – it felt like you have fourteen million disabled people and umpteen expert disability benefits experts from the 80 organisations in the Consortium - including organisations like Mencap and Parkinson’s UK, ALL watching you’.  

Simon & sister Ruth as children studied speech and drama and elocution under legendary coach, Brightlingsea’s late Mrs Craig, passing exams, winning many medals and even finishing second in the Butlins National Talent finals in Bognor Regis, performing a Shakespearian duologue.

‘Thanks to One Stop convenience stores, with kit like this we can pass on ideas and inspiration about the world of work to others’ says Simon.

ABC Note: One Stop: is the only Tesco shop format in the UK that does not include the word Tesco in its name. The brand, along with the original shops, formed part of the T&S Stores business but, unlike many that were converted to Tesco Express, these kept their old name. 

The Association of Pension & Benefits CIC (the ABC) was found-ed when we saw a need for an organization to represent those on state pensions and welfare benefits. This large community of millions of people are linked by a common circumstance.

We have 16,000 contacts, around 3,000+ articles on-line and daily we receive around a thousand emails from the EU, governments. politicians, pressure groups and NGOs.

This is growing weekly and people and major organisations are now finding us. With prediction of 75 million people around the globe potential losing their jobs due to technology and the changing way we work; the ABC is here to help this community and present of positive image of those in the 99% having to meet life’s challenges in a changing work environment.

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