Funding from West Northamptonshire council contributes to our core running costs and funds specialist advice and casework in relation to debt and immigration.

North Northamptonshire Council fund advisors to deliver specialist benefit, debt and energy advice and casework across North Northamptonshire. 

The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) is an arm’s-length body sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions.  It’s aim is to help people – particularly those most in need – to improve their financial wellbeing and build a better, more confident future. As part of the East Midlands Money Advice partnership, CLS utilises MaPS funding to deliver specialist debt advice and casework across Northamptonshire.

Our contract with the Legal Aid Agency funds us to deliver Housing Advice and court representation to people facing eviction or repossession.  It also funds the Charity to provide wider advice in relation to benefit and debt problems where these are impacting someone’s ability to pay for their home. 

The British Gas Energy Trust (BGET) is an independent Charitable Trust established in 2004. Their mission is to alleviate the detrimental impact of poverty, with a focus on fuel poverty.  BGET also fund frontline advice services in local communities providing free advice on benefits, debt and energy efficiency advice.  BGET fund Community Law Service advisors working across Northamptonshire advising individuals who are experiencing financial difficulties. 

Northamptonshire Carers Association is a registered charity which offers comprehensive support to carers.  Funding from them allows us to send an adviser to their Northampton Carers Support Group each month. 

The Henry Smith Charity is an independent grant making trust which aims to use their resources to help people and communities at a time of need and to bring about positive change.

Funding from the Justice Together Initiative has helped to form a network of immigration advice providers across the East Midlands to deliver free immigration advice and to work together to build capacity in the advice sector and upskill trainee immigration advisors.

Community Law Service has an advisor working from the foodbank 2 days a week providing specialist advice and casework to guests of the foodbank who are experiencing financial hardship.

A B Charitable Trust promotes human dignity and defends the human rights of marginalised and excluded people.  A core costs grant supports the organisation’s overheads.

The  ATJF’s Improving Outcomes Through Legal Advice funds work being done in Food Larders across West Northamptonshire, allowing Community Law Service to provide specialist benefit and debt advice to larder members.

The Justice First Fellowship is a scheme funding training contracts for trainee lawyers, operated by The Legal Education Foundation, an independent foundation supporting communities across the UK to use the law to improve their lives and the lives of others, underpinned by a commitment to rebalancing power to confront injustice. The Foundation recognised that in order to ensure the law is there for everyone who needs it, communities must have talented and committed social welfare lawyers, and so the Justice First Fellowship was formed in 2014.

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Feeding Britain works through partnership to develop, trial, evaluate, and submit as policy recommendations, initiatives that prevent, relieve, and abolish hunger and food insecurity in the United Kingdom.