Gateway partners
Referrals into the Local Welfare Assistance Scheme can only be made by a gateway partner. Click the category sections below to see which organisations are currently signed up:
Advice services
- Anglia Revenues Partnership (covers East Suffolk and West Suffolk Councils)
- Christians Against Poverty Suffolk Coastal Debt Centre
- Citizens Advice Diss, Thetford and District
- Citizens Advice Felixstowe and District
- Citizens Advice Ipswich
- Citizens Advice Leiston, Saxmundham and District
- Citizens Advice Mid Suffolk
- Citizens Advice North East Suffolk
- Citizens Advice Sudbury and District
- Citizens Advice West Suffolk
- Customer First (Suffolk County Council)
- Disability Advice Service (East Suffolk)
- DWP Felixstowe, Ipswich and West Suffolk (including Suffolk Family Focus), and Lowestoft and Waveney
- Great Yarmouth Refugee Outreach & Support (GYROS)
- Ipswich Disabled Advice Bureau
- Leonard Cheshire
- Ormiston Families
- Suffolk Coalition of Disabled People
District and Borough / County Council
- Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils
- East Suffolk Council
- Suffolk County Council
- West Suffolk Council
- East and West Villa (Ipswich Borough Council)
- Early Help (Suffolk County Council)
- Family Solutions Team (Suffolk County Council)
- Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Service (Suffolk and Norfolk County Council)
- Housing Options, Tenancy Services, Tenancy Support (Ipswich Borough Council)
- Housing Solutions (Mid Suffolk and Babergh District Council)
- Independence and Wellbeing Service (Suffolk County Council)
- Stepping Home (East Suffolk Council)
- Suffolk Youth Justice Service (Suffolk County Council)
Domestic Abuse
Drug and Alcohol
Education/Learning and Childcare
- Busy Bees at Ipswich Rushmere
- Dell Primary School
- Easton Pre-School
- Family Nurse Partnership Programme
- Federation of Fairfield Infant and Colneis Junior School
- Forest Academy
- Hadleigh Parkside Pre-School
- Happy Tots Pre-School
- Laureate Community Academy
- Little Acorns Childcare
- Newmarket Academy and Sybil Andrews Academy
- PeoplePlus
- Raedwald Trust
- Ranelagh Primary School
- Realise Futures
- Sibton Nursery School
- St Helen's Primary School
- St Margaret's CEVA Primary School
- Suffolk Childcare Agency
- Sybil Andrews Academy
- The Beeches CP School
- The Willows Primary School - Family Support
- Thorndon CEVCP School
- Westgate Primary School
Food banks
Health services (including mental health)
- Barrack Lane Medical Centre
- Bury South Integrated Delivery Team (Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust)
- Community Mental Health (Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust)
- Early Intervention in Psychosis Services (Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust)
- Health Outreach (NHS)
- James Paget University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Julian Support
- Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist - West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Suffolk Mind
- Waveney Recovery Team - adult pathway (Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust)
Housing
- Adam Outreach Project
- Anglia Care Trust
- Broadland Housing Association
- Cambridge Pringle Group
- Circle Housing and Support
- Clarion Housing
- East and West Villa (Ipswich Borough Council)
- Havebury Housing Partnership
- Housing Options, Tenancy Services, Tenancy Support (Ipswich Borough Council)
- Housing Solutions (Mid Suffolk and Babergh District Council)
- Ipswich Housing Action Group and Chapman Centre
- Newtide Homes
- Orbit Housing Association
- Orwell Housing
- Richmond Fellowship
- Riverside Housing
- Salvation Army (Lyndon House Ipswich Lifehouse)
- Sanctuary Supported Living
- Solo Housing
- Stepping Home (East Suffolk Council)
- Talitha Koum
- YMCA Trinity
Other support
- Access Community Trust
- BME Suffolk Support Group
- Bury Drop In
- Family First
- Fishermen's Mission
- Gatehouse Caring in East Anglia
- Home Group - Britannia House and Community Support
- Home-Start in Suffolk
- Home Start Mid and West Suffolk
- Leading Lives
- Number 72 - the Family and Community Network
- PHOEBE Centre
- Racing Welfare
- Reach Community Projects
- Restitute
- Rural Coffee Caravan
- Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association Suffolk
- Suffolk Baby Bank
- Suffolk Befriending Scheme
- Suffolk Family Carers
- Suffolk Rape Crisis
- Suffolk Refugee Support
- Unison (Suffolk Branch)
- Your Life Our Help
Prison and Probation
Suffolk County Council
- Children, families and learning
- Business
- Council and democracy
- Jobs and careers
- Care and support for adults
- Roads and transport
- Planning, waste and environment
- Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service
- Community and safety
- Births, deaths and ceremonies
- Culture, heritage and leisure
- About
- Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
- COVID-19 vaccinations in Suffolk
- Getting a test
- Suffolk Advice and Support Service
- Suffolk's response
- Home, But Not Alone
- Guidance for safer places in the highway
- Advice for businesses
- Guidance for businesses about working safely with coronavirus
- Organisations who provide COVID-19 community support
- Advice on travel
Suffolk Advice and Support Service
- Local Welfare Assistance Scheme: gateway partners
- Food Banks