A2B is a not-for-profit organisation funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies and specific government funding. It works to help older people across Northern Ireland maximise their take-up of benefit entitlements. It started operations in May 2007 and has 8 staff based in its North Belfast offices.
People can already use A2B’s Benefit Screening Tool on this site. It’s an online questionnaire A2B developed to help older people work out what benefit entitlements they’re due.
With advice and age sector organisations, A2B is developing an Older Person Advisers’ Course to provide advisers with the specialist skills and knowledge needed to work with older people.
A2B is jointly developing ways of linking existing information systems used by different organisations which help older people apply for benefits, and to automate complex application forms whenever possible. We call this Case Recording Integration and Application Form Automation.
Our Datamine of anonymised information on benefit uptake across Northern Ireland will help improve the effectiveness of future benefit uptake campaigns.
A2B is developing its Partnership Network of organisations which can help bring the message about benefit uptake to older people. It does this by supporting their outreach and community development work.
Publications Click on the links below to download pdf publications from A2B:
Contact us A2B Unit 40, North City Business Centre 2 Duncairn Gardens Belfast BT15 2GG Tel 028 90754070 Email a2b@a2b.org.uk