Legal Clinic

“C4WS has always been so much more than a winter night shelter: its dedicated team of staff and volunteers work with former guests for months, and often years, after their stay to help them build safe, happy and fulfilling lives for themselves. The Jobs Club and the Mentoring and Befriending Scheme help guide C4WS’s former guests into secure housing and stable employment – but these worlds are not without their complications, especially when English is not your first language.

Having spent several years volunteering with the Jobs Club and the Mentoring and Befriending Scheme – and having witnessed the extraordinary motivation of former guests to establish independent lives after staying with C4WS – I suggested that I might offer my legal knowledge at a monthly legal advice clinic, as a forum for an otherwise independent person to seek help with a tricky issue. In November of last year, two weeks after first discussing the idea with C4WS’s Welfare Manager, Sam – whose determination to help, I have learnt over the years, knows no bounds – we hosted the first clinic.”

Max Mills, Barrister