Gloucester Law Centre®

Here is a copy of our latest annual report. Once the link has been clicked, the PDF copy of our Annual Report will open in a new page.

Annual Report 2010 – 2011

Please visit our new campaign page for details on how you can help us fights against the cuts.

You can access the page by clicking here, or using the Tabs above.

Thank you.

We will be protesting about the Legal Aid cuts which may mean the Law Centre will have to close.

We would be very grateful for your help in joining us to oppose these cuts.

The protest will be happening on Friday 3rd June 2011 and we are urging people to meet us at 1:10pm at Gloucester Law Centre.

For further details or to confirm you would like to join please contact us using the details below.

Tel: 01452 423492

Email: admin@gloucesterlawcentre.co.uk

We are in need of volunteers to help out with reception work.

The days we are looking for are Tuesday mornings and all day Wednesday.

If you are interested in a volunteer pack please contact us.

Email: admin@gloucesterlawcentre.co.uk

Phone: 01452 423492

Thanks!

Please can you go on this website and register your vote for the Save Legal Aid campaign!

It’s the same site that recently helped change the Governments mind on the Forest sell off, so it really can make a difference!

You can vote from your computer unregistered and then vote again when you have registered, you can also leave a comment if you so wish about why it’s so important to save Legal Aid. The link is provided below.

38 Degrees – Save Legal Aid

Thank you

On Saturday the 26th March members of the Law Centre’s staff attended a march in London fighting against the cuts the Government are proposing. It was an incredible turn out with people attending from all across the country which was fantastic to see.

Here is a photo of us in Trafalgar Square with our banners (Click image to make it bigger and clearer)

Here is the Law Centre’s Response to the Legal Aid Consultation.

You can access our response here.

This October the Law Centre has been helping residents for 25 years.

To celebrate 25 years of the Law Centre we had tea and cakes with the Mayor and invited guests on 6th October 2010.

At least 100,000 local people have received help and advice from us during that time.

Over the last 2 years we have brought in over £1million each year for our clients in benefits gained, debt written off and settlements. We have saved numerous clients from eviction and each homeless family costs taxpayers between £6,000 and £80,000 each. We have had employees reinstated to their jobs, obtained references and back pay and fought inequality.

Many clients receive new or increased benefit, are able to manage their affairs better and have had their overpayments reduced or written off.

We have prevented clients being returned to an unsafe country where their lives were in danger as well as helping people apply for citizenship.

We hope to continue for as long as we can helping local people with their legal issues.

As well as the grants listed in previous posts we were also granted £10,000 from the Lottery which meant we could push ahead with modernising the Law Centre and its procedures. We used the money to get computers and printers set up in every room, a colour printer in the main office and a new telephone system. The new computers have really helped when seeing clients, meaning caseworkers don’t have to keep nipping back and forth between the main office and the interview room. They can also write letters and forms etc to print off and give to the client while they wait. Using a computer in reception has also allowed us to put clients straight onto our database, instead of photocopying their forms etc wasting paper.

Here are some photos of the new equipment;

For the financial year 2009-2010 we managed to gain a massive £1,391,118.56 for our clients!