Ealing Law Centre
Social Inclusion
Help us cover volunteer expenses, training and materials to support people faced with homelessness.
About this cause
We exist to challenge disadvantage, poverty and exclusion by providing people in need with free expert legal services and by collaborating with frontline agencies in cases where they have reached the limit of their ability to help. Our solicitors and caseworkers provide free legal advice and representation in immigration and citizenship, housing and welfare rights law up to Court of Appeal level. Our Anti-Poverty Unit provides the only representation service in Ealing for people who need to appeal benefits decisions to a tribunal. Our helplines include a “Sanctions Hotline” for people whose benefits have been stopped. We provide frontline agencies with training on legal issues and as part of a consortium we deliver the Big Lottery's Help Through Crisis programme throughout the Borough
How this cause brings people in the community together
Reducing poverty by helping clients obtain benefits due to them, reducing homelessness caused by rent arrears arising from resolvable benefits issues, strengthening the capacity of the advice sector and the wider community by disseminating knowledge of rights and how to obtain them and improving the advice network's resilience and effectiveness by inter-agency referrals and partnership working