It’s time to play the music: a new Law Centre launches in North Yorkshire

The new member, North Yorkshire Citizens Advice & Law Centre (NYCALC), was voted in by its peers at our annual general meeting in December. After several months of adaptations, it is ready to be proudly announced to the county.

Law Centres are formed in one of two ways: they either are set up anew with a specific purpose of becoming a Law Centre, or existing advice organisations join our Network and take on the Law Centre name and identity. NYCALC is the fourth Law Centre that is also a local Citizens Advice. It follows in the footsteps of joint services in Kirklees, Bradford and Sheffield.

The benefits of also becoming a Law Centre to local people are obvious. As a combined service, they enjoy both a breadth of issues that they can get help with and a depth of support with common legal problems, for example in housing, discrimination, family, asylum and immigration law.

North Yorkshire is a great county and NYCALC is a large service to suit it. Along with its eight permanent offices from Skipton to Scarborough, it offers outreach services in a further 23 locations. And from now on, it offers God’s Own Country even more.

Laura Holland, Senior Solicitor at NYCALC, said:

Lucy Brierley, Discrimination Caseworker at NYCALC:

For referrals to the Law Centre or for further information, please contact lawcentre@northyorkslca.org.uk or visit their website.