Marylebone Bangladesh Society

The Bangladeshi Women’s Welfare Rights Project was set up in 2004 by Westminster Citizens Advice Bureau and Marylebone Bangladesh Society within the borough of Westminster. Since 2004, this project has helped one of the deprived Bengali societies in Westminster improve their lives by maximising their income, helping them to manage their debts and by empowering them to make a decision and act on their action in order to resolve their issue. As a result the number of repeat clients or repeat queries has fallen each year. This project also advises client on immigration matter, family and personal, consumer, housing, employment, discrimination etc.

This project plays an important part in the creation of social policies and services and reinforces it. Social policy is to prevent from same thing happening again. We are currently trying to do as many social policies as we can in order to prevent homelessness, discrimination and stop bailiffs getting involved.

In 2008, we received funding from Westminster City Council for another three years for continuation of this project and we hope to carry on doing good work that will satisfy our clients.

The current availability of the Adviser is as follows:

The adviser is based at Marylebone Bangladesh Society three days a week and can be contacted on 020 7724 7427 on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday between 10am to 1pm. Open door service on Tuesdays and appointments on Wednesdays and Thursdays. The adviser is based at Pimlico Citizens Advice Bureau on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons.

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