Focus on Toynbee Hall
Toynbee Hall produces practical innovative programmes to meet the needs of local people, improve conditions and enable communities to fulfil their potential. London Councils has commissioned Toynbee Hall under service 50 Legal and Advice: Provide legal advice and representation across the various areas of social welfare law
Advice in the Community-East London’s Welfare Benefits Service
Toynbee Hall has been funded by London Councils to provide free Welfare Benefits Advice across East London (Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Newham, Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Havering, Barking and Dagenham and Bexley). We are looking for organisations to set up outreach venues and referral arrangement with so that we can access as many people as possible in collaboration and co-ordination with local organisations in each borough.
Potential outreach partners should preferably have a high throughput in terms of service users to achieve this aim.
We are keen to ensure that this service is provided in areas/locations of high need for the service or in co-ordination with organisations who have a high demand for this type of service than they are able to provide.
Our target groups are older people, disabled groups, low income, BAME groups, people in social housing and those experiencing financial exclusion, however, we will assist people who fall outside of these groups.
The service will provide free advice from Generalist to Specialist level including help with appeals. To encourage greater access to this service, we will also offer a weekly telephone advice service for general queries about entitlements and if appropriate make appointments to see the client. The telephone number for contact 020 7392 2918
If you are interested in working with us as either a referral or outreach partner or more information, please contact:
Jahanara Hussain
Programme Manager
Advice
Toynbee Hall
28 Commercial Street
London E1 6LS
Direct Line: 020 7392 2931
Fax: 020 7247 4017
Learning from local action - developing national solutions
http://www.toynbeehall.org.uk/
More about Toynbee Hall
Toynbee Hall produces practical innovative programmes to meet the needs of local people, improve conditions and enable communities to fulfil their potential.
Tower Hamlets continues to be one of the most deprived boroughs in the country and Toynbee Hall works with over 6,000 members of the community each year to support them to meet the challenges that they face and to encourage them to take control of their lives.
Each year, nearly 400 residential and non-residential volunteers bring their expertise to the services that Toynbee Hall offers. Toynbee Hall places volunteers at the heart of its work, always ensuring that it offers excellent opportunities, so that volunteers can meet their personal goals and develop their own skills and networks.
John Profumo – volunteer warden at Toynbee Hall for 40 years
John Profumo, who died on 9 March 2006, was Toynbee Hall’s longest serving volunteer.
As well as bringing in funds that enabled the organisation to develop and grow, he acted as an intermediary between the poor and disadvantaged people of the East End of London and those at the opposite end of the social scale. John Profumo continued to play an active part in the life of Toynbee Hall right up to his death.
Polly Toynbee the journalist is an ambassador for Toynbee Hall, which is named after her great-great uncle Arnold Toynbee, a well-known philanthropist and economic historian.
Capitalise
Capitalise is a London-wide partnership (Toynbee Hall, Blackfriars Advice Centre and Mary Ward Legal Centre in partnerhsip with a range of charities and independent advice organisations) that aims to reduce debt and financial exclusion by improving people's capacity to manage their debts, help people to take control of their finances and make informed choices in the future.
this page last updated 30th October 2008