Campaigns – We have provided help and assistance to a number of local community justice and awareness campaigns. Including:
- Merseyside Families for Justice (Victims of Murder & Violence)
- Amy (Young Wirral girl with a rapid aging disease)
- Gamble Brothers (Helping to reunite family members with relatives they hadn’t seen for 50 years)
Welfare Benefit Advice – For the most vulnerable people on Merseyside.
- IB 50 forms
- Debt Advice
- Pensioner Credit
- Tax Credits
Last Year Alone the:
- The welfare rights service was accessed by 440 community residents from June 2007 to June 2008.
- We have given advice to one hundred and twenty ex-dock workers and their families.
- In addition we have maximised the income of the people who use the services we provide by approx £850,000.
- In the past twelve months we have also successfully represented 23 local residents at benefit tribunals and appeals.
International Events – we helped to publicise and mobilise support for:
- European Dockworkers – Spanish Dockworkers over Port Privatisation
- ILWU – American West Coast Longshoreman’s – Building links with Liverpool and American working class cultures.