About
Us
Woodseats
Advice Centre is staffed by two full-time and five part-time paid workers and a team of
approximately 24 volunteers.
Paid Workers
We offer a drop-in service and telephone
advice for people within postal areas S8 and S17. For specialist advice or for some lengthy interviews an
appointment can be made. We also arrange home visits for the housebound (older people or
people with disabilities) within our area. We regret that we are unable to offer an email
advice service.
We also offer outreach sessions at Lowedges, Batemoor and Jordanthorpe. Our Families Outreach Worker works specifically
with families with young children in these areas, providing home visits where necessary.
In addition to our generalist advice sessions we hold weekly outreach
sessions at the Haematology and Oncology Department of Sheffield
Children's Hospital, twice weekly outreach sessions at the Cancer Information & Support Centre at Weston Park
and at Princess Royal Spinal Injuries Unit at Northern General Hospital, giving welfare benefits advice to
families and
carers of patients receiving care in the departments.
We also host an information service for people within the S8 and S17
areas who are considering divorce or separation. This service is in
conjunction with South Yorkshire Family Mediation and is available on
alternate Tuesdays, by appointment.
The Advice Centre is grant-aided by Sheffield
City Council but is run by an independent management committee. We are a member of Advice UK (formerly the Federation of Independent
Advice Centres, FIAC) and have obtained the Quality Mark of the Community Legal Service.
We are grateful to all of our sponsors
without whom we could not carry out our work.
∞ Barratt, Goff & Tomlinson
Princess Royal Spinal Injuries Unit
∞ Irwin Mitchell
Princess Royal Spinal Injuries Unit
∞ Stewarts
Princess Royal Spinal Injuries Unit
∞ Breast Cancer Care
∞ Cancer Care & Support Centre
Weston Park
∞ Clic Sargent
Sheffield Children's Hospital
∞ Citizens Advice—Financial
Inclusion Fund
∞ Sheffield City Council -
Early Years Service
∞ Our Lady of St Thomas &
Canterbury Church
∞ Pulmonary Hypertension
Association
∞ South Sheffield Area Panel
∞ Sheffield City Council –Grant
Aid
∞ Sheffield Town Trust
∞ And to all our Clients who
gave us donations
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