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Advising Londoners Awards 2025

Announcing the first Advising Londoners Awards presented by the Advice Services Alliance in partnership with University House, hosted by Clifford Chance LLP

The inaugural Advising Londoners Awards are open for nominations!

The awards celebrate the delivery of intelligent and good quality advice services available to people living in the London area.

Entering the awards and attending the ceremony is completely free for London advice services thanks to the support of University House and ASA. The ceremony will be hosted by Clifford Chance LLP at their lovely offices in Canary Wharf. The only cost to services is your time to nominate and your tube fare to the event.

What services can be nominated?

The awards are open for any ‘not for profit’ organisation that provides free legal advice services to people living within the 32 London borough area.

Any advice service can be nominated for any award whether it is provided by one organisation or by a partnership of different providers. This includes:

those giving generalist advice or specialist legal services
organisations running a dedicated advice service or providing advice alongside other services
local community-based organisations and pan-London services
long-established services or a short-term funded project.

Advice providers may apply on behalf of different services and may apply to more than one category. However, only one nomination can be per category.

Who can nominate?

Nominations can be made by anyone with good knowledge of an advice service including staff, trustees, funders, local councillors, partners or service users.

Nominations must include information required to judge the service against the category.

How will the awards be judged?

The judging will be based on the evidence provided. This should demonstrate the contribution the organisation or project makes to the delivery of good quality advice for Londoners.

Each nomination will be judged only on the evidence provided in the application. Even if the judges know the service, they will only take into account the evidence provided. The judges will be paying attention to the description of the key factors which make the service outstanding as well as the evidence of the impact of the service.

The judges are particularly interested in the quality of the reasoning for the nomination (why is this service/person better than other similar ones?) and a range of appropriate evidence to back up the nomination should be provided.

The judges will select a shortlist of three nominations for each category. Those shortlisted will be guaranteed to receive a commendation certificate and an invitation to the award ceremony.

The winner of each category will be announced on the night at the Advising Londoners Award Ceremony on the 18 November 2025. It will be hosted by Clifford Chance LLP at their offices in Canary Wharf.

Submitting a nomination

The application process is now open. Use our online form to submit your nomination.

Please include the details of the project as well as who is making the nomination.
Describe why you are nominating this service and any supporting evidence to back up the nomination.
No other attachments will be accepted as part of the application.
All the evidence must be supplied within the 1,200 word limit.

The deadline for nominations is 11.59pm Wednesday 08 October 2025.

If you have any questions on the process please email info@asauk.org.uk

We look forward to reading your nominations and celebrating the great work of the sector in London, through these awards.

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Housing Solicitor Vacancies

Housing Legal Aid Solicitor

£50,000 FTE (Basic salary – £45,864 with £4,136 Legal Aid special allowance) *Pay Award Pending*
8 weeks holiday per year
5% employer’s pension contribution
Employee Assistance Programme

University House is seeking Housing Solicitors as part of a major expansion.

All candidates must have experience of Legal Aid and also a willingness to engage with wider access to justice projects.

This is an exciting opportunity to work for one of the leading organisations in the NFP sector.

For further details, please see the job description and person specification.

Apply online at Charity Job.

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Seasonal Closing Dates

Please note, the Centre will be closed from 23rd December 2024 until Monday 6th January 2025

Enquiries and emails received during this time will not be reviewed until the w/c 6th January.

For urgent matters, please contact Civil Legal Advice on 0345 345 4345

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Admin Vacancy!

Administrator and Triage Worker Vacancy

We’re seeking an enthusiastic individual to provide a comprehensive administrative service to a busy front line advice centre.

1. To help provide an effective free advice and representation service for people largely living or working in East London or elsewhere within England and Wales.

2. To provide a comprehensive administrative service to a busy front line advice centre. This comprises responding to enquiries through both telephone, email and face-to-face, ensuring that each enquirer is assessed for suitability for our services, specifically with a view to Legal Aid funding, booking clients for legal advice appointments and signposting those we cannot assist directly.

3. You will be working closely with our Housing Team and provide some support to other legal area teams.

Apply online here.

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Admin volunteers!

We’re on the look out for admin volunteers to support our busy frontline advice work, apply here.

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Seasonal Office Closure

The Centre will be closed from Wednesday 20th December 2023 reopening Thursday 4th January 2024.

If you need urgent advice during this period please contact Civil Legal Advice on 0345 345 4 345

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Solicitor Apprentice Vacancies

We are looking for two talented and enthusiastic solicitor apprentices to join our team based in Bethnal Green. Candidates would need to have completed their LLB law degree with minimum of 2:1 or GDL and be available to commence their solicitor apprenticeship course in September 2023.

You can find out more information on solicitor apprenticeships as a route to qualifying as a solicitor at the SRA website.

“Aspiring solicitors can qualify through the solicitor apprenticeship. This provides an alternative to the traditional qualification route through university and may suit candidates who want to ‘earn as they learn’. As apprentices, your training and assessments are paid for through the apprenticeship levy fund.

Solicitor apprentices must pass the SQE assessment to qualify as a solicitor. The apprenticeship includes SQE training, as well as the assessments, and typically takes …30 months for those with LLB law degrees. At the end, providing apprentices pass the assessment and meet our character and suitability requirements, they can qualify as a solicitor.”

Please see the job description and person specification below, and complete the application questions with these specifications in mind.

Salary: £23,703 per annum (plus 5% contribution to Pension Scheme)

Closing date: 12pm 8th June 2023

We recognise the positive value of diversity, promote equality and challenge discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We are happy to consider flexible working arrangements for this role.

Job Description and Person Spec

Please apply via the Charity Jobs site here

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Christmas Closure

The Centre will be closed from Monday 19th December 2022 until Tuesday 3rd January 2023.

If you need urgent advice during this period please contact Civil Legal Advice on 0345 345 4 345

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Solicitor Apprentice Vacancy

Solicitor Apprentice – Vacancy

We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic solicitor apprentice to join our team based in Bethnal Green. Candidates would need to have completed their LLB law degree and be available to commence their solicitor apprenticeship course in September 2022.

You can find out more information on solicitor apprenticeships as a route to qualifying as a solicitor at https://www.sra.org.uk/become-solicitor/sqe/solicitor-apprenticeships/

“Aspiring solicitors can qualify through the solicitor apprenticeship. This provides an alternative to the traditional qualification route through university and may suit candidates who want to ‘earn as they learn’. As an apprentice, your training and assessments are paid for through the apprenticeship levy fund.

Solicitor apprentices must pass the SQE assessment to qualify as a solicitor. The apprenticeship includes SQE training, as well as the assessments, and typically takes …30 months for those with LLB law degrees. At the end, providing apprentices pass the assessment and meet our character and suitability requirements, they can qualify as a solicitor.”

Please see the full vacancy details and make your application here. If you have any difficulty please email jennie@legaladvicecentre.london

Salary: London Living Wage (plus 5% contribution to Pension Scheme)

Closing date: 5pm Monday 18^th July 2022

Job and Person Specification