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FOI - Debt Advice services [Dec 2022]

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Request reference number: MGLA281122-4343

Date of response:

Summary of request

Your request
  • Under the FOI Act where can I find which organisations the Mayor’s office is currently funding to provide advice to London residents?

  • Where can I find the terms under which this is to be provided?

  • For Question 1, I am looking for a complete list with the names and addresses of these organisations, that where possible includes the specific name and type of the projects so funded. (Under ‘type’ I am particularly interested in the topic area as well as the geographical area of advice of each project. But feel free to add other categories that you use.)

  • For Question 2, I am looking for the full terms of contracts, but only for the following 2 organisations: Shine, Debtfree. Further clarification:

  • It should contain all advice that Citizens Advice Bureau do and used to provide, but all sorts of other similar advice too.

  • It should therefore also include legal advice that LawCentres provide.

  • It should include advice on consumer-rights, consumer-protection, advice on access-rights, advice on financial issues, advice on energy rights/issues, housing issues, etc.

Our response

Please find below list of Projects

Funding recipient details

*The Mayor is working in partnership with the Bromley By Bow Centre and Healthy London Partnership to deliver social welfare legal advice training to social prescribing link workers, who are mostly based in primary care settings across London. The Mayor does not directly fund health care workers or healthcare settings to provide community advice to Londoner

Organisation Name 
Address
Name of Project 
Topic area for advice
Geographical area
Debt Free Advice
Partnership of 16 charities Led by Toynbee Hall)
Debt free London
The funding is for general advice or capacity building rather than specific advice specialisms, and we don’t yet have publishable data on the categories of issues that advisers are dealing with
Various locations across London over 3 months, November 2022 – Feb 2023
London Legal Support Trust
1 Lady Hale Gate, Gray’s Inn London WC1X 8BS
Advice partnership
RCJ Advice (Royal Courts of Justice and Islington Citizens Advice Bureaux)
42-49 High Holborn, London WC1V 6NP
11 partnership organisations
 
Energy Saving Trust
33 Cathedral Road, Cardiff, CF11 9HB
Energy Advice London
Energy efficiency and cost of living advice and referral service
Pan London
LB Islington
LB Islington, Town Hall, Upper Street, London, N1 2UD
Shine (Warmer Homes Advice Service)
Fuel poverty advice and referral service.
Pan London
Bromley By Bow Centre*
St Leonard's Street, London E3 3BT
 
Social welfare legal advice to social prescribing link worker
Pan London

 

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