Advice giving organisations

Bromley Advice Network - Supporting local advice services

Do you provide an advice service for local people? Looking for information, training or funding to develop your services?

Yes? Then Bromley Advice Network may be for you.

Bromley Advice Network (BAN) is a network of advice services in Bromley. Members are from local charitable, voluntary or community organisations and are all working to provide advice to local people on a wide variety of issues.

BAN can help you:

Access information or training for your advice workers
Find funding for your advice service
Meet with other advice providers locally, to find out about new opportunities and best practices in developing your service

Current members include Bromley Advocacy Alliance, Outmates, Deaf Access and London Magistrates Support and Information Service.

"As a small organisation you can become isolated. Meetings like BAN are useful for fresh ideas, new avenues and sharing experience with other advice services." (Susan Craney, Deaf Access and a BAN member)

Recent meetings have covered:

Sources of funding for advice work
Providing advice on housing
Working with the Primary Care Trust mental health team

BAN is currently organising training on providing benefits advice. Details of next meeting will be displayed here when available. Alternatively, please contact the BAN co-ordinator Sandy Greenfield at Outmates: telephone (020) 8315 2520 or email: outmates@outmates.org.uk.

Community Matters Advice and Information Service

Community Matters is the national federation of community organisations and it operates a free advice line on 0845 8474253 from Monday - Friday 9.30am to 5pm, closed between 1pm and 2pm.

It can give you advice on all sorts of issues including: licensing, employment, charitable trading, legal structures, consulting, managing community buildings and governance.

So call 0845 8474253, email info@communitymatters.org.uk or visit their website at www.communitymatters.org.uk.

Page updated: 27 November 2008