Law Firm Pro Bono Partnership Opportunity with St Hilda’s East Community Centre Legal Advice Clinic
St Hilda’s East Community Centre would like to re-establish its award winning legal advice clinic at its main premises in Club Row, Shoreditch.
St Hilda’s East is a busy community centre serving the East End of London. A registered charity (reg. no: 212208), St Hilda’s was established in 1889 as a settlement by former pupils of Cheltenham Ladies’ College. Since then it has evolved into a locally managed, vibrant and well used charity serving a diverse local community.
St Hilda’s operates a Food Co-op Project as an anti-food poverty initiative which provides affordable and organic locally sourced food to people on low incomes and a lifeline for housebound older people using the centre.
The Food Co-op Project expansion launched in August 2016 and is now open early evenings on Thursdays, providing an ideal setting for a pro bono Legal Advice Clinic. The Clinic will be supported by a dedicated sessional welfare benefits advice worker employed by St Hilda’s, working closely with and complementing law firm pro bono advisers.
St Hilda’s also operates from a second site in Shadwell (Sonali Gardens) where Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has for the past 9 years operated a Wednesday evening clinic. The two clinics will complement each other and provide a service for local residents living in different parts of the borough of Tower Hamlets. The area served by St Hilda’s faces particular challenges. Over half of children in the ward live in poverty (Source: Tower Hamlets Fairness Report 2014) and the ward is the 14th most deprived in London (Source: Greater London Authority figures) and St Hilda’s is keen to work with partners to re-establish the Club Row legal advice service to meet the need in the area.
LawWorks is able to assist with training and to support the needs of the participating firms and pro bono volunteers. Alison Klarfeld, Head of CR at BLP and a trustee of St Hilda’s is available to share information about how the sister clinic run by BLP at Sonali Gardens operates and to provide support in getting the new clinic restarted.
Please find more information here.
Pro Bono Opportunity with Macmillan Work Support Service Clinic
Macmillan Cancer Support provides specialist information, emotional, work and financial support, and inspiration, to people affected by cancer.
Macmillan Cancer Support in partnership with LawWorks and extensively supported by Jones Day initiated a work support service to help people with cancer who want to return to or remain in work.
The service supports customers with work issues, to help them understand their options and employment rights, so that they can achieve the outcome which is right for them.
We are looking for motivated and enthusiastic volunteers committed to the cause of supporting people affected by cancer to resolve work issues.
Please find more information here.