Welcome to the St Luke’s Advice Service Website
The St Luke’s Advice Service was established in 1999. It came into being as a result of Sue Worthing (a solicitor) and Peter Irwin Clarke (the vicar of St Luke’s church and ex barrister) who were inspired by John Grisham’s novel The Street Lawyer. From the outset the aim has been to deal with people’s problems holistically and to give them time to talk about the issues that worry them as they are going through a crisis. For more about our history and to meet the founder (click on link A).
What we do
We help you complete welfare Benefit forms: -
- Disability Living Allowance (DLA)
- Attendance Allowance (AA)
- Carers Allowance (CA)
- Incapacity Benefit or Incapacity Benefit in Youth (IB or IB (IY)) or Income Support – ill health
- if your application is refused we will discuss an appeal with you and if appropriate a solicitor will represent you at the Tribunal hearing. Meet our solicitor.
To find out more click here
To help with your debts we will: -
- agree with you what you can repay
- help you fill in an income and expenditure form
- negotiate with your creditors
- deal with all the correspondence from your creditors with you
- advise you on an IVA or Bankruptcy (if appropriate) and complete bankruptcy forms on your behalf
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We will also help on other legal issues in connection with housing (tenancies, council tax or rent), relationship and family matters and negotiate or write to statutory or voluntary bodies on your behalf. We regret that we cannot give advice on divorce, separation or criminal matters, but our solicitor is happy to give preliminary information, for example ancillary relief (form E), but cannot act formally for you.
How can we help you?
Have a look at our video here and see how we have helped other people in crisis.
Our core objectives are:
St Luke’s Advice Service believes that every member of society is entitled to access the same information and services, and to be aware of their basic rights as an equal citizen.
We : -
- provide a safe, relaxed and accessible environment for people to openly discuss their situation.
- empower people to seek solutions, through practical advice, guidance & exploring options
- provide empathetic listening
- are non-judgemental
- respect the whole person and are individual client centred
- are solution focused
- persist in seeing people through their crises
- signpost people to other agencies as appropriate
- recognise that clients may want us to limit what we do for them
- respond accordingly to constructive criticism & suggestions
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