The Bridge – East Midlands

15th March 2025 | Community

For our article, this month we are focusing on the work of one of our partner agencies – The Bridge (East Midlands)

Working for the community since 1993, The Bridge deliver several specialist housing related advice, support, and assistance services and accommodation options to homeless and vulnerably housed people across Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland.

Their Housing Advice service provides specialist housing advice, assistance and advocacy on all housing and homelessness related matters. The help that they provide is free and completely confidential.

What can they help with?

· Homelessness

Preventing homelessness
General housing options
Housing waiting lists, transfes, and exchanges
Mortgage and rent arrears
Notices and court action
Successions and assignment of tenancies
Housing Benefit
Anti-social behaviour and neighbour disputes
Housing issues relating to domestic abuse and relationship breakdown

We have one of their highly-trained advisors, Rachael, in The Well holding a drop-in session on alternate* Thursday afternoons between 1pm and 4pm. You don’t need an appointment to see her; you can just pop in. *contact them to find out when the next session is.

If you are unable to come to a drop-in session, you can contact them directly by phone on 0800 038 5964 or email hello@thebridge-eastmidlands.org

www.thebridge-eastmidlands.org.uk