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Citizens Advice Wandsworth


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Benefits advice, Housing advice, Employment Law Advice, Information and Signposting

Description

Citizens Advice Wandsworth is an independent charity that provides information, advice and support. We also work to improve the policies and practices that affect people's lives. We accept referrals for: - Welfare benefits advice: Form filling (disability benefits), challenging decisions and completing SSCS forms. We cannot attend tribunals. - Housing: Possession claims, homelessness, eviction. We do not attend hearings. - Immigration: We can arrange a free 30 telephone minute appointment. We can also provide assisted information and signposting. We do not currently accept referrals for debt. Debt cases can be referred to South West London Law Centre. We aim to accept referrals within 2 working days of receiving them. When we accept a referral, we place the client in a queue to be contacted. If the issue is urgent (eg. foodbank voucher required or imminent eviction) we will contact the client as soon as possible. For non-urgent issues, we will aim to contact the client within 10 working days. Please explain our response times when referring a client.

jo.anderson@cawandsworth.org

Battersea Library, 265 Lavender Hill, London, SW11 1JB

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cawandsworth.org/

CAW Crisis Project


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Benefits advice, Housing advice, Legal advice, Family advice, Immigration advice, Domestic Violence and Abuse Support

Description

Crisis Project accepts referrals from specified partners for Wandsworth residents with advice issues. Please only refer into this project if you have a prior arrangement with the CAW Crisis Project. Please be aware that this service is currently extremely busy and it may take up to 2 weeks for any clients referred to be contacted.Please do make clients aware of this before the referral is made. You may be able to find some helpful information here: https://cawandsworth.org/get-advice/

crisis@cawandsworth.org

Battersea Library, 265 Lavender Hill, London, SW11 1JB

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www.cawandsworth.org/our-projects/crisis

Welcare


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Benefits advice, Debt advice, Housing advice, Information and Signposting, Community services, Social and therapeutic services, Family advice

Description

Welcare is a registered charity that works to provide practical and emotional help and support to families who are experiencing difficulties. Our South West London service offers support for families with children up to 13 years old. We work with the whole family, providing non-judgemental, honest advice and guidance, helping to empower families to overcome the challenges they face. Our SW London office supports families residing in Wandsworth and Richmond boroughs. We also facilitate an education programme for parents, Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities and My Space groupwork for children who have been impacted by Domestic Abuse. Referral Criteria and Pathways We take referrals from schools, churches, children’s specialist services, Health Visitors, GPs and other professionals; children centres; other voluntary organisations. Families can also self refer for support Referrals are accepted where there are children aged 0-13 yrs. Families with older children may be considered for support. Please contact us to discuss further

020 8893 9123

info@welcare.org

Castlenau Community Centre, 7, Stillingfleet Road, London, SW13 3AQ

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www.welcare.org

Roehampton Law School Clinic


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Housing advice, Employment Law Advice, Legal advice, Family advice

Description

Roehampton Law School Clinic has been set up to give our law students practical legal experience at the same time as giving Wandsworth clients free legal advice. We offer one off appointments with a solicitor on Monday afternoons during the Autumn and Spring terms. Please check the criteria below for the areas of law covered. All appointments are currently on Zoom Clients need to be able to upload documents online Students carry out an initial fact-finding call with the client usually on Fridays. Students assist solicitor and will attend the advice appointment. Clients will receive letter confirming the advice given within two weeks of the appointment. We provide ongoing casework in limited cases and strictly at our discretion. Legal advice is limited to non-urgent issues in the following areas: Private Landlord and Tenant - including repossessions under s.8 and s.21 Housing Act. Advice on validity of notice, how to prepare for the hearing and costs issues. (Excluding disrepair, harassment, conversion or property, social or shared housing disputes) Mortgage repossessions; explaining to client what evidence is required and, or helpful to persuade the court to adjourn possession hearings or stay of warrant of execution. Consumer Rights- General advice and letter drafting, (excluding mobile phone contracts). Family Issues ;initial advice on relationship breakdown, not children matters Employment Issues; where client is still in employment. Interim County Court Applications - advising on making and or responding to interim applications and helping clients prepare for a court appearance. Please note that the administrative office for the clinic will only be manned on Mondays and Fridays and referrals received will be checked only on these days Please do contact us if you want to check whether your client is eligible for advice.

0208 392 7219

lawschoolclinic@roehampton.ac.uk

University of Roehampton, Department of Social Science, Digby Stuart College, Digby Stuart College, London, SW11 1JB

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www.roehampton.ac.uk/business-and-law/law-school/law-school-clinic/

SPEAR London


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Benefits advice, Housing advice, Information and Signposting

Description

The SPEAR Outreach team operate in the Wandsworth borough to support rough sleepers. Our team go out late at night and in the early hours of the morning to identify those who find themselves rough sleeping with the objective of verifying them as rough sleeping and helping sign-post those rough sleepers to relevant services. If you are concerned about a rough sleeper and want SPEAR to look for them on shift, we ask you to please refer them to us via refernet. Please be as specific as possible in relation to the location of the rough sleeper to enable us to provide Outreach services effectively. The Outreach team are on shift twice a week and endeavor to respond to referrals within 72-hours. Please note, rough sleepers must be verified by SPEAR in order to be assigned a keyworker to receive support. Verification means they must be seen bedded-down by our Outreach service whilst out on shift late at night or in the early hours of the morning.

020 8404 1481

wandsworthoutreach@spearlondon.org

89 Heath Road, Twickenham, London, TW1 4AW

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www.spearlondon.org/rough-sleeper-outreach/