Citizens Advice partnership
Hackney CAB leads a partnership of 6 organisations that provide an advice service for people who live in Hackney.
The partners are:
- Hackney Citizens Advice: provides free advice on a range of issues including benefits, consumer problems, employment issues, housing problems, legal issues, debt advice, relationship, family and personal problems as well as tax and utility related topics
- City and Hackney Carer’s Centre: provides advice and casework on welfare benefits, housing and debt to carers. We can also help you with benefits checks and form filling. Tel: 020 8533 0951
- Off Centre: general information and advice service for young people aged 11 to 25, with particular emphasis on welfare benefits, money management, housing and homelessness, immigration, employment, education, training and other legal support. Tel: 020 8986 4016
- Derman: provides advice and casework on welfare benefits, debt, housing, employment, family and consumer to people within Kurdish and Turkish speaking communities. 020 7739 7026
- Hoxton Trust and Hackney Marsh Partnership provide advice in GP surgeries in the borough
Hackney Law Centre
Free legal advice and representation for those who live or work in Hackney, along with free advice surgeries in housing, debt, consumer law, and small claims. 020 8985 8364. Hackney Law Centre.
Hackney Advice Service
Hackney Advice Service is a partnership of 5 charities providing an advice service for people who live in Hackney
The partners are:
- deafPLUS: for adults who are hard of hearing
- visionPLUS: for adults who have visual impairment
- MIND: for people with a physical disability and/or adults with a mental health disability
- Royal Society for Blind Children: for children and young adults up to the age of 25 who are blind or have a severe visual impairment
- Refugee Women’s Association: for migrant women
- Shelter is a national housing and homeless charity that can provide advice and assistance on all housing issues, from finding a place to live to problems meeting the cost of housing
- Fair Money Advice offer free and impartial advice to help you sort out your money worries and put you back in control
The service includes advice, form filling and casework on issues such as Welfare Benefits, Travel Concessions, Disability Rights, including assistance with Social Security Appeals. 0207 001 1728. HAS@deafplus.org.
City and Hackney Carer’s Centre
City and Hackney Carer’s Centre: Provides advice and casework on welfare benefits, housing and debt to carers. We can also help you with benefits checks and form filling. Telephone: 020 8533 0951.
Hackney Chinese Community Services
Provides advice on welfare benefits, housing, debts, employment, immigration (OISC Level 1), family, consumer rights, human rights and will read or interpret letters. 020 8986 6171.
North London Muslim Community Centre
North London Muslim Community Centre: provides an advice and information surgery on welfare benefits, housing, health care needs, education, debt, immigration (OISC level 1). 020 8806 1147.
Day-Mer Turkish and Kurdish Community Centre
Day-Mer Turkish and Kurdish Community Centre: provides advice on Welfare Benefits, housing, employment, education and Immigration (OISC level 1). 020 7275 8440.
Praxis – Immigration Advice at Hackney Migrant centre
Immigration advice and case work to OISC level 3 – and casework including access to accommodation and services, homelessness and insecure housing, including destitution cases with no recourse to public funds and asylum support poverty relief, including food bank vouchers, grants, etc.
Drop in every Wednesday- registration begins at 8.30am. Hackney Migrant Centre.
Agudas Israel Community Services
Provides employment and benefit advice to the orthodox Jewish community in Hackney. 020 8800 6688.
Age UK East London
Age UK East London: provides advice on Welfare Benefits, social care information on staying warm at home, home adaptations and how to prevent falls. 020 7249 7149.