Helping you to have your voice heard and rights upheld.
About the Hubs

Community Advocacy helps you to access information, understand your rights, and have a voice on the issues that are important to you.

You can drop-in at a Community Advocacy Hub or pre-book an appointment to meet with an advocate one-on-one.

Our Community Advocacy Team run three hubs in three different locations in Leeds.

At the Hubs, an advocate will listen to you, help you to consider your options, and support you to take steps to have your voice heard and rights upheld.

Our priority is self-advocacy, and you can therefore expect to leave the hub with some ideas and practical tools to help progress with your advocacy issue independently. An advocate might help you to take some actions such as making phone calls or writing a short letter.

What can you help me with?

At the Community Advocacy Hubs, an advocate could help you with issues such as:

  • Accessing services
  • Making a complaint
  • Communicating with organisations like adult social care, utility companies, housing services and healthcare professionals
  • Preparing for meetings or phone calls

Information and Signposting about:

  • Benefits
  • Housing
  • Debt
  • Healthcare
  • Homelessness
  • Support for carers

If you do not see your issue on this list, please speak to us about whether we might be able to help you. If we can’t, we will try to signpost you to another organisation who can.

We also have some free self-advocacy resources that can be downloaded from our website.

Who are the Hubs for?

Our Community Advocacy Hubs are for people aged 18 and over who live in Leeds (or are registered with a Leeds GP) and need help to speak up for themselves.

We currently run weekly hubs in the following locations:

Tuesday: 10am-1pm

Deacon House
Seacroft Avenue
Seacroft
Leeds
LS14 6JD

Wednesday: 10am-1pm

Compton Centre
322 Harehills Lane
Harehills
Leeds
LS9 6JF

Thursday: 12 Noon-3pm

Reginald Centre
263 Chapeltown Road
Chapeltown
Leeds
LS7 3EX

How to Access the Hubs

If you would like to attend a Community Advocacy Hub, you can:

  • Drop-in at one of the hubs listed above.
  • Make an advocacy referral to pre-book an appointment.

You can do this by contacting our First Contact Team via email at [email protected] , phone call on 0113 244 0606, or by sending a text to 07719 859 694.

If you are unable to attend a hub in-person, please let our First Contact Team know and they can arrange for an advocate to call you by telephone or video call at a prearranged time during one of the hubs.