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St Paul's Church


Categories

Family and Relationships, Families with children, Food Aid, Older People

Description

St Paul's Church runs the Barnabas Group (a drop in warm space), hosts FoodCycle Marylebone (a free community meal with doors opening at 6pm), and a monthly Coffee Morning (on the first Wednesday of the month). The church can also offer spiritual or pastoral support arranged with the office. There is also access to HomeStart and FreshStart.

02077248517

office@stpaulsmarylebone.org

St Paul's Church, 5 Rossmore Road, NW1 6NJ

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www.stpaulsmarylebone.org/

Citizens Advice Westminster


Categories

Benefits, Employment, Family and Relationships, Immigration, Energy, Families with children, Housing and homelessness, Debt and money, Digital inclusion, Other Issues, Licensing

Description

We help people resolve their legal, money and other problems. We do this by providing advice and information on their rights and responsibilities, as well as influencing local government and other decision-makers to improve their policies and practices which affect local communities. Citizens Advice Westminster, together with the wider Citizens Advice service, uses the evidence of their clients' problems to campaign for improvements in the laws and services that affect everyone; both locally and nationally. Please state if your client is vulnerable & may need multiple call attempts in the 'notes' section of the referral form.

dutysupervisor@westminstercab.org.uk

The Stowe Centre, 258 Harrow Road, Paddington London, W2 5ES

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www.westminstercab.org.uk

City Community Legal Advice Centre


Categories

Benefits, Employment, Family and Relationships, Housing and homelessness

Description

We are a University Community Legal Advice Centre based at the City Law School, City University which is part of the University of London. At City Community Legal Advice Centre, students, staff and external lawyers volunteer to provide advice and assistance to clients on a variety of legal issues. The service is run by qualified solicitors. All students and trainees work under supervision, which means advice is delivered to the same standard as practice. We offer free legal advice on certain areas of law to people who are not eligible for legal aid and cannot afford to pay. We can advise on areas of family law, employment, housing disrepair and allocations, small business, civil litigation, consumer, and personal injury. The service is advice only, which means we do not undertake casework or provide representation. We also offer referrals to other services who may be able to assist you if we cannot take your case. Our trained student advisers take details of your case in advance and if it is suited to our service we offer you an appointment with a qualified volunteer lawyer. We cannot take urgent or overly complex cases. We also operate a form filling service for the welfare benefit personal independence payment. Trained student advisers work under the supervision of a qualified non-practising specialist lawyer to assist clients to make their PIP application. Our housing disrepair service focuses on clients who are tenants in social housing who have a disrepair problem, and the advice includes drafting a letter of complaint to the landlord which the client sends on their own behalf.

020 7040 5414

clac@city.ac.uk

The City Law School, 165 Goswell Rd, London, EC1V 7HD

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www.city.ac.uk/about/facilities/specialist-facilities/city-community-legal-advice-centre

Ukraine Response Team


Categories

Social Services (health and social care) assessment, Benefits, Employment, Family and Relationships, Immigration, Families with children, Housing and homelessness, Debt and money, Food Aid, Other Issues

Description

Ukraine Response Team has been launched in March 2022 to support Ukrainian refugees who reside in the borough under the Homes for Ukraine Scheme and their sponsor. We also coordinate a range of support for Ukrainian refugees in partnership with our multidisciplinary partners and professional network. Our team is specifically funded to oversee support to Ukrainians who are here under the Homes for Ukraine scheme, however we are also able to offer general support and advice to any other Ukrainian who lives in the borough as a result of fleeing the war in Ukraine. The team does not offer emergency assistance or statutory intervention, and our approach is to encourage Ukrainian refugees to access “business as usual” services and wider support available in the borough that they are fully entitled to. If your services become aware of any Ukrainian residents who present to be in need of advice or assistance, we would like to ask that you share information about these residents with our team so that we could check if they are already known to us and to ensure effective information sharing and partnership working in relation to these clients. If you have any questions, please contact Ukraine Response Team on 07971 026278 before making the referral.

07971 026278

ukraine@rbkc.gov.uk

Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, London, Westminster, SW1E 6QP

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www.westminster.gov.uk/ukraine-crisis

Abdul Mageed Educational Trust


Categories

Family and Relationships

Description

The Abdul Mageed Educational Trust supports clients by providing the following services: • Arts and cultural activities • Education/Training (adults) • Getting people into work • Group outings and social activities • Health information and signposting • Healthy eating and fitness Abdul Mageed Educational Trust , charity number 1192825, is working hard with a group of professionals to deliver various services to the hard to reach communities in London including Education, Community learning workshops, Family enterprises days, plus distribution of fresh fruits and vegetables on cheap prices to people in the community in London through the Sunflower cooperative. We are space creators, platform holders for beneficiaries to get together and combat isolation and loneliness. We help beneficiaries to overcome life difficulties by breaking barriers and help them develop a healthy life style. We are advice first aiders, we listen, identify the problem then refer and signpost to specialist services.

07309729920

info@amet.online

73C, Sutherland Street, Westminster, London, SW1V 4JY

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www.amet.online/english

University Of Law Legal Advice Clinic


Categories

Benefits, Family and Relationships, Immigration, Housing and homelessness

Description

We are a university legal advice clinic which works with law students and trainee solicitors, supervised by qualified solicitors to offer pro bono advice to members of the public. We undertake housing matters, primarily supporting tenants and leaseholders with cases of excessive rent, service charge and disrepair. In family cases we undertake child arrangement orders and cases under section 8 of the Children Act. In immigration, we advise clients in immigration removal centres who want to apply for bail, providing general advice and assistance in relation to asylum applications and appealing against deportation. We are starting to advise on welfare benefits, at present appealing PIP decisions. We provide advice, casework support, advocacy support and representation.

020 3835 0441

harpreet.aujla@law.ac.uk

14 Store Street, London, WC1E 7DE

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Westminster Refuge Service


Categories

Benefits, Family and Relationships, Immigration, Families with children, Housing and homelessness, Debt and money, Food Aid

Description

We provide refuge accommodation to women and children fleeing domestic abuse. We provide them with emotional support, as well as practical support with housing, benefits, criminal matters, and facilitate their engagement with local agencies.

07823685026

tamina_summersgill@refuge.org.uk

PO Box 3849, London, SW1V 2AE

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www.refuge.org.uk

St. Vincent's Family Project


Categories

Family and Relationships, Families with children, Stay and Play Sessions, Food Aid, Baby Massage

Description

St. Vincent's Family Project provides a free community for families with young children (0-5) from all backgrounds with Drop-Ins on Tuesdays and Thursdays for play, Sensory Room, family activities, and relaxation, including massage and alternative therapy. Support and advice are available for families who want some help. And we have a range of group programmes for parents to develop their skills and confidence in different aspects of parenting. We can offer creche to families to help them use our programmes and we have various services visiting us throughout the year. A Dad's Space is available on Saturday mornings. We also provide creative arts and drama therapy to children of primary school age who have mental, emotional, or behavioural problems.

07851501984

ilaria.parrini@svfp.org.uk

St. Vincent's Family Project, Methodist Central Hall, Storey's Gate, Westminster, London, SW1H 9NH

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www.svfp.org.uk/

St Mungo's


Categories

Social Services (health and social care) assessment, Benefits, Employment, Family and Relationships, Immigration, Energy, Families with children, Housing and homelessness, Digital inclusion, Food Aid, Older People

Description

St Mungo's outreach teams go out each night to help individuals who are homeless to them off the streets. Each night the organisation offers a bed and support to more than 3,200 people across London, the southeast and southwest and our mission is people can and do recover from issues that cause homelessness. We are part of the London Navigator Team (LNT) we work with up to 250 individuals identified by Greater London Authority (GLA) and The Department for levelling Up, Housing and communities (DLUHC) and London councils as needing additional support to end homeless. we offer through care support from street to home and continue working with people when they are in tenancies.

03330508721

teamlondonnavigators@mungos.org

3 Thomas More Square, 5th floor, London, E1W 1YW

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www.mungos.org

Marylebone Bangladesh Society


Categories

Benefits, Family and Relationships, Energy, Housing and homelessness, Debt and money, Digital inclusion, Older People, Other Issues

Description

Marylebone Bangladesh Society is a BAME-led local voluntary sector organisation working to meet the needs of BAME communities of St Johns Wood, Marylebone and Paddington in the City of Westminster. We provide: Advice; Information service; Youth club and adult activities services such as exercise class, health; wellbeing activities etc. Note: services are shut during lunch hours from 13:00 to 14:00.

020 7724 9746

info@mbs-uk.org

19 Samford Street, London, NW8 8ER

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Family Lives Westminster


Categories

Benefits, Family and Relationships, Families with children, Housing and homelessness, Befriending

Description

Family Lives Outreach: Befriending. We provide an Outreach service which provides support and information to families through home-visiting. We have a flexible and responsive approach, work alongside many other professionals and services to get the right support for families. We home visit or meet at a place of convenience and have workers and volunteers who speak various languages. We offer 5 Befriending services with trained volunteers, providing support to families referred to the project by either the Outreach Team or other professionals outside the organisation. Families are given emotional and/or practical support. Referred families often seek support with: Housing; Parenting; Material grants and financial support; Childcare and nurseries; Adult education, training and employment; Relationship issues/Domestic violence; Isolation; Depression and many other issues.

07525836274

fatimaa@familylives.org.uk

Portman Early Childhood Centre, 12-18 Salisbury Street, Marylebone, London, NW8 8DE

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familylives.org.uk

Carers Network


Categories

Social Services (health and social care) assessment, Benefits, Family and Relationships, Families with children, Housing and homelessness, Digital inclusion, Older People, Other Issues

Description

Carers Network was established in 1991 to support unpaid carers. We support people caring for partners, family members, friends and neighbours aged over 18 with disabilities and long-term conditions or experiencing frailty due to old age. We provide one-to-one assessments, an information and advice service, support groups and drop-in sessions. In addition, we have a programme of events, activities and training. Carers Network's services are available free of charge to unpaid carers living in the City of Westminster, the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Each year, Carers Network helps over 5,300 local carers gain access to the support they deserve.

02089603033

info@carers-network.org.uk

Office 8, Beethoven Centre, Third Avenue, London, W10 4JL

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carers-network.org.uk/

Queen's Park Children's Centre


Categories

Employment, Family and Relationships, Families with children, Housing and homelessness, Stay and Play Sessions, Debt and money, Baby Massage

Description

Queen's Park Children's Centre provides a range of services for children and their families including information, advice and casework service for parents of 0-19 year olds or young people (16-19) who are Westminster residents or those who are homeless, with no connection to anywhere outside of Westminster.

020 7641 5838

officeqpcc@westminster.gov.uk

88 Bravington Rd, London, W9 3AL

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www.qpeyfed.org/queens-park-childrens-centre/