CROSSLIGHT ADVICE 

This project will support people in the community with debt advice. It offers holistic person-centred debt casework service with mentoring and money skills. The project will allow the group to ....more

This project will support people in the community with debt advice. It offers holistic person-centred debt casework service with mentoring and money skills. The project will allow the group to utilise open-banking software to obtain expenditure details directly from a clients bank account up front enabling advisers to fully engage with clients almost from first contact and obtain instant credit reports to build up a quick and detailed view of a client's difficulties. It will also use text messaging to increase engagement and have addon software to enable clients to more easily sed documents (bills and rent statements) for support.

Cost of Living Top Up Grant awarded to support small/medium-size organisations with additional costs incurred due to the cost of living crisis.

Crosslight Advice is a community-focused charity providing holistic debt advice and money education to low-income clients experiencing financial difficulty. It has a network of 18 branches across ....more

Crosslight Advice is a community-focused charity providing holistic debt advice and money education to low-income clients experiencing financial difficulty. It has a network of 18 branches across London and the South of England. One of its branches is based in Balham (in Wandsworth but very near Lambeth). Due to increased demand from Lambeth residents, this project will open a new Lambeth Branch based in Clapham Park (at New Park Road Baptist Church). This new branch will be overseen by the Balham Branch. It will provide equivalent of 2.5 days paid debt advice work plus manage a team of trained volunteers to supplement the advice work and also provide preventative budgeting advice and courses.

Comprehensive debt & benefit advice, down-to-earth financial education and holistic support for some of the most marginalised and vulnerable people in society.

towards three years' running costs of an organisation providing telephone support, in-depth casework and financial education for individuals with complex needs, who have been negatively impacted by ....more

towards three years' running costs of an organisation providing telephone support, in-depth casework and financial education for individuals with complex needs, who have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, in West London and West Kent.

Providing end-to-end support for those in unmanageable debt and financial hardship, particularly through the COVID-19 crisis

as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively

Grant to Crosslight Advice to support the organisation through COVID19

over two years towards core costs for a charity providing debt advice and holistic support to people in financial difficulties in London and Kent

£42,315 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, in order to carry on providing support to Londoners.

A one-off, unrestricted grant of £8,450, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant.

Grant from The Fore's RAFT Immediate Response Fund to Crosslight Advice, as part of The Fore's COVID-19 Response programme.

towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of a project providing information and support to disadvantaged people in West London and West Kent

Revenue/Core costs

£68,600 over two further and final years towards the costs of an Operations Manager.

Crosslight Advice provides comprehensive debt advice to people in financial distress. Its clients often have very low incomes, long-term physical or mental health issues, or complex social and family ....more

Crosslight Advice provides comprehensive debt advice to people in financial distress. Its clients often have very low incomes, long-term physical or mental health issues, or complex social and family problems. Unlike other debt advisory services, Crosslight Advice gives all of its support face-to-face. Its model incorporates mentoring and emotional support with financial education, in order to help people to escape difficult and dangerous situations. Crosslight Advice will use The Fore's funding to pilot a new 'Open Advice' work stream - a faster intervention that will make it possible for the organisation to help more people. The service will also serve as a form of triage, to identify those in need of more intensive follow-on support. This new model will significantly increase Crosslight Advice's capacity and efficiency, enabling them to meet demand and support an additional 400 people within two years.

Crosslight Advice will use The Fore's funding to pilot a new ‘Open Advice’ work stream – a faster intervention that will make it possible for the organisation to help more people. The service ....more

Crosslight Advice will use The Fore's funding to pilot a new ‘Open Advice’ work stream – a faster intervention that will make it possible for the organisation to help more people. The service will also serve as a form of triage, to identify those in need of more intensive follow-on support. This new model will significantly increase Crosslight Advice’s capacity and efficiency, enabling them to meet demand and support an additional 400 people within two years.

The organisation will use funding to purchase laptops which will enable them to provide debt and financial advice in a range of locations including foodbanks. The project aims to develop their ....more

The organisation will use funding to purchase laptops which will enable them to provide debt and financial advice in a range of locations including foodbanks. The project aims to develop their existing service and engage with clients facing crisis at an early stage.

towards three years' running costs of an organisation that provides debt advice and support to those most in need in central and west London

£95,700 over 3 years (£31,000, £31,900, £32,800) for the full time salary of the Operations Manager.