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1. The first 200 Citizens Advice Bureaux were set up days after the outbreak of World War Two. They popped up throughout communities, including in some people's front rooms.
2. In 1984 Patsy Byrne (aka Nursey from Blackadder) starred in a ITV drama series called Miracles take longer depicting the life and cases dealt with by a CAB.
3. Volunteers at Rushmoor CAB were once asked if they could help to identify a snake which some local children brought into the bureau.
4. The number of bureaux peaked in 1942 at 1,074, with one even operating out of a converted horse box that parked near bombed areas.
5. Last year over a third of the UK’s online population visited our Adviceguide website.
6. In Welsh Citizens Advice is called Cyngor ar Bopeth or "Advice on everything"
7. Citizens Advice shares its birthday with Beyoncé. We're over twice her age though- this year she will be 33.
8. Just as many people access our Adviceguide website on a smart phone or tablet as they do on a desktop or laptop computer.
9. There is a Citizens Advice Bureau in New Zealand
10. Sophia Loren plays a CAB volunteer in the 1974 remake of A Brief Encounter
11. One of the first Citizens Advice campaigns to was to help market gardeners get the same cheese rations as farmers
12. 21,500 people volunteer for Citizens Advice - that's as many people as can fit into the Manchester Arena.
13. Columnist Grace Dent once compared the court of Game of Throne Queen, Daenerys Targaryan, to a 'medieval Marks and Spencer customer services desk-cum-Citizens Advice Bureau'
14. In 2013 Newcastle CAB knitted a giant 40ft scarf which they draped around the city's Earl Grey Monument, to publicise the work they do.
15. The Giant Scarf was most recently seen at this year's Northern Pride event.
16. The Citizens Advice logo used to be an owl
17. Another early Citizens Advice campaign was for extra clothing ration vouchers for pregnant women.
18. The top issue women come to Citizens Advice about is Housing Benefit
19. Carry on Loving found Kenneth Williams as a CAB marriage guidance counsellor.
20. In a 1956 a man wrote to Coventry CAB asking for advice on how to improve his wife.
21. ...and the reply which was sent to the man:
22. The top issue men come to Citizens Advice about is Employment and Support Allowance.
23. Citizens Advice ran the Red Cross message service during the second world war, with bureaux around the country acting as receiving centres for messages to friends and relatives in German-occupied territory.
24. The Advertising Standards Agency has upheld a number of ‘mad about the ad’ complaints submitted by Citizens Advice resulting in the banning of a number of payday lending adverts and a decision by Wonga to stop using puppets in its advertising.
25. There is a Citizens Advice Bureau in Romania
26. A Citizens Advice survey found that Stephen Fry, Kylie Minogue, Martin Lewis, Richard Branson, Oprah Winfrey and Alan Sugar are the celebrities we'd most like to ask for advice.
27. Last year the Citizens Advice Consumer Helpline took 1.2 million calls. The top issue people rang about was second-hand cars.
28. In 1956 it was not just men writing to Coventry CAB for advice about their spouse:
29. Almost 6,000 people have signed our Advice for the future pledge- if you love advice, please add your name to theirs!
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