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City Community Legal Advice Centre are a free, confidential, Lawworks, legal advice service.
They are passionate about widening access to justice.
Qualified lawyers and trained law students staff their centre.
They offer advice and information services to members of the public. They can advise on a wide range of legal issues and provide a form-filling service for the welfare benefit, Personal Independence Payment (PIP).
Cook for Good is a social enterprise based on a housing estate in Kings Cross. They are working to tackle food insecurity, health inequality, social isolation and barriers to work, through a programme which includes a Community Pantry. The programme is largely funded by cooking-based corporate teambuilding events.
Pantry members pay £3.50 a week to choose a basket of food worth around £35 and enjoy food at the soup café. They also get access to a range of wrap-around services, including advice on tackling debt and energy costs, and mental health and wellbeing support.
Citizens Advice Haringey provides the Haringey community with free and impartial information, advice and guidance on a wide range of issues.
The main topics they address are: benefits, employment, debt/money, consumer, energy, housing, family and immigration.
BPP Law School Pro Bono Centre provide a wide range of free legal advice and support services to the public.
Volunteer BPP University students deliver their services under the guidance of the Social Impact Team and qualified lawyers.
Their advice services are predominantly provided online (via video), with some in-centre appointments also available.
They aim to have their pro bono projects provide free legal services and support to local communities and the most vulnerable in our society.
South West London Law Centres are one of the largest Law Centres in the UK and a registered charity. For the last 50 years they have been providing advice and legal representation to local people who are without the means to pay for it.
They have the support of a network of over 400 pro bono lawyer volunteers and 40 members of staff. They work in communities to alleviate poverty, speak for the most vulnerable and create a fairer society.
Their Law Clinics are a collaboration between the University of Sussex’s final year law students, law academics and external solicitors and barristers.
The clinics offer free legal advice to the public, charities, schools and organisations on a variety of legal issues.
Citizens Advice Colchester first opened its doors on 4th December 1939, months after the start of the Second World War, and has since worked continuously to support the people of Colchester and surrounding areas.
Their volunteers and staff give high quality, independent, information and advice: over the phone; face to face or by email on a range of subjects.
Their range of advice and support work includes:
- working with people to appeal against incorrect benefit decisions
- writing off unmanageable debt
- preventing homelessness
- helping those in fuel poverty
- helping those who have been treated unfairly by their employer
Their mission is to support people who would otherwise struggle to access legal advice, particularly minority, disadvantaged or underrepresented groups.
They offer free legal advice and casework in:
- Discrimination Law
- Housing Law
- Family Law
They also offer free, one-off initial legal advice in:
- Employment Law
- General Law
- Personal Injury Law
- Wills & Probate Law
Kent Law Clinic is a partnership between students, academics, solicitors and barristers.
They provide free legal advice and representation to those unable to afford it.
Advice sessions are offered for the following areas of law:
- Family
- Housing (e.g. tenancy issues)
- Wills and probate
- Civil litigation (e.g. contract disputes, consumer law)
They can also take on a limited number of cases. Casework is carried out by student caseworkers under the supervision of the Clinic’s legal practitioners.
They specialise in the following areas of law:
- Immigration, asylum and citizenship
- Family
- Housing
- Public law
- Welfare benefits.