Charitable activities Charities That specialise in Advice and individual advocacy

WE PROVIDE A VARIETY OF ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES TO OLDER PEOPLE AGED 60+ LIVING IN THE CROSSGATES AND SURROUNDING LS15 DISTRICTS TO PROMOTE HEALTHY AND INDEPENDANT LIVING AND TO REDUCE SOCIAL ISOLATION. THIS INCLUDES ADVOCACY, ADVICE, INFORMATION AND PRACTICAL SUPPORT, AS WELL AS GROUPS FOR EXERCISE AND WELL BEING, CREATIVE ARTS AND PURELY SOCIAL OPPORTUNITIES.

PANDAS is the leading UK charity in supporting familie suffering from pre (antenatal) and postnatal illnesses. PANDAS vision is to support every individual and their network,suffering with perinatal mental health illnesses. We campaign to raise awareness and remove the stigma. We provide our PANDAS Help Line, Support Groups, and online advice to all and much more. We operate in England and Wales.

Cheshire East Citizens Advice Bureau North aims to provide free, confidential, impartial and independent advice and information for the benefit of the local community, to exercise a responsible influence on the development of social policies and services and to ensure individuals do not suffer through a lack of knowledge or an inability to express their needs effectively.

Promotion of human rights in Hong Kong by: monitoring abuses, research into human rights issues and providing technical advice; publishing in-depth reports; raising awareness of, and promoting public support for, human rights issues; facilitating discussion and engagement with human rights in civil society; and international advocacy of human rights.

The principal objectives of Brixton Advice Centre are to promote access to justice by providing good quality advice and assistance. This includes legal advice and representation to people who would otherwise be unable to afford legal services. The Centre also supports people maximise income and to better manage their lives.

Providing settlement and integration support services for newcomers to the UK that have chosen to work or settle in Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Ipswich and the surrounding areas. This is achieved by offering advocacy/advice/information services via a team of support workers.

Peterborough Rape Crisis provide safe, confidential support services for child and adult survivors of rape, sexual abuse and sexual violence regardless of when the abuse happened. Our services include trauma informed therapeutic support and advocacy. All services are free of charge and available to survivors in Peterborough and Cambridgeshire.

Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art aims to advance the education of the public in contemporary Chinese arts and culture. Our work covers four main areas; exhibitions, education, agency work and advocacy which includes training, conferences and publications.

We are a Rape Crisis Centre offering a range of interventions to support women & girls, men & boys cope and recover from the impact of sexual violence. Our service provision includes one-to-one counselling, emotional support, ChISVA/ISVA/Advocacy and group work. Our services are free at the point of access, to clients, children and young persons.We offer support to non offending family members.

We run Irish themed events online and in person, as well as Tea Cake Club's and have the following projects. Advice and Advocacy, Elders Outreach, Carers Support, Volunteers project, Out & About project & Memory Services project.

Working in North East London, we support people in need to stay independent, active and connected to their communities. We provide practical help through our home adaptations and therapeutic decluttering services, social and digital inclusion activities, falls prevention services, and advice and advocacy for people from marginalised and excluded communities.

We provide a culturally and linguistically appropriate legal advice service for the residents of Manchester, particularly in the wards of Cheetham and Crumpsall. We provide quality assured advice in the social welfare legal categories of welfare benefits, debt, housing, and immigration (level one). We support residents to access other local services and run a volunteer development programme.

To provide food, drinks, clothing and a hot shower every day of the year to homeless and disadvantaged people plus advice on housing, debt, jobs, health( with a nurse available 2 days a week and a doctor 2 days a week) and drugs and alcohol and classes in English, Maths, IT and art. To provide advocacy on benefit and housing appeals. To promote health, safety and confidence building.

Citizens Advice Bureau in Hartlepool provides an advice, information and advocacy service for local residents. The Service provided covers a number of areas, these include, debt advice, employment law, consumer advice, housing advice and tenancy support service, welfare benefit advice, money guidance, taxes,utilities and other matters.

Helpline: provides information & advice on issue relating to VI and offer emotional supportFamily Events: national and regional Look MagazineHoliday flat for VI families OutLOOK Youth Project: events and activities initiated and run by young people with the aim of making connections, developing skills, increasing confidence and self esteem. Audio magazine: produced by young people.

Driven by the needs of people, Unlock works to help people overcome the long-term disadvantages caused by criminal records. We do this by providing information, advice, advocacy and other forms of support; undertaking research; as well as working with government, employers and others to achieve a fairer and more inclusive society.

ELAYS NETWORK IS A MULTI-PURPOSE CHARITY THAT SERVES AS MODEL ORGANISATION REPRESENTING THE COMMUNITIES OF WANDSWORTH AND LAMBETH SINCE 2003. TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION. ADDRESSING INEQUALITIES THROUGH COMMUNITY REPRESENTATION, DEVELOPMENT AND ADVOCACY. WHILE HELPING TO PROMOTE ACTIVE CITIZENS

6 Trustees oversee the work of Family Help Darlington CIO which provides a holistic package of support including refuge accommodation, Darlington's Women's Refuge, was founded in 1976 (charity reg no 506051) in order to provide safe, temporary accommodation for women and women with children fleeing domestic abuse. There is also a telephone helpline for victims/survivors of domestic abuse.

We realise the Roma Support Group's aims and objectives by the following activities: A) Advice and advocacy for young people, their families and older Roma; B) Health projects; C) Education support project; D) Sport inclusion project; E) Art and culture development projects; F) Roma culture workshops; G) Roma training schemes; H) Policy and information.

Support for marginalised people across Sheffield across the areas of legal advice, education, employability, community cohesion, social inclusion and reducing isolation. FCH works with people of all backgrounds, but has specialisms in working with BME communities - particularly those of Pakistani and Roma origin.

The Charity primarily exists to advance the Christian Faith and to promote the relief of aged persons and persons in conditions of need, hardship or distress. The Church provides many services including pastoral care, community events, youthwork, toddler groups and debt advice.

LIVERPOOL COMMUNITY ADVICE PROVIDES FREE, INDEPENDENT, NON-JUDGMENTAL AND CONFIDENTIAL ADVICE ON A RANGE OF ISSUES TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. LIVERPOOL COMMUNITY ADVICE'S SOLE PURPOSE IS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE, AND THROUGH PERSONAL ADVICE POINT THE WAY TO RESOLVING ISSUES, DEALING WITH DEBTS, MAXIMISING INCOME, PREVENTING HOMELESSNESS, IN FACT ANYTHING FOR WHICH PEOPLE NEED HELP AND SUPPORT.

Activities include: Food for all programme, nutritious take away, Credit Union, Advocacy Support, Job Search, Foodbank, Youthgroup, Pop up Ping Pong Parlour, Community Gardens, intergenerational learning, Dementia Cafe, Activities and free snacks for children and young people during school holidays, community gardening, partnership work with schools and other local groups.

To ensure that individuals do not suffer through lack of knowledge of their rights and responsibilities or of the service available to them or through an inability to express their needs effectively. And equally,to exercise a responsible influence on both the development of social policies and services, both locally and nationally.

Information, advice and guidance through courses, training and counselling.